Gas heating of homes within reach for all experts say
Experts at the American Gas Association convention report advances in gas house heating through improved furnaces and insulation. L Cover of Pittsburgh notes gas is no longer a luxury but a feasible option for every home builder. Feonles Gas Light and Coke Company experiments show insulation makes gas competitive with coal for heating, even in already built apartment houses.
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American Gas Association
L . Cover
Pittsburgh
Feonles Gas Light and Coke Company
Chicago
Potatoes Yield Big on Ringer Farm in Schoenersville
Reuben Al. Ringer near Schoenersville joins the Four Hundred Bushel Club with an acre yielding 403.3 bushels of Michigan russel potatoes. An eight acre field remains green, while the ninth acre weighed at 403.3 bushels and was checked by County Farm Agent A. L. Hacker after nine seasonal sprays.
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Reuben al. Ringer
Schoenersville
Ringer
Doan's Pills Ease Lititz Back Kidneys Pain
Lititz resident Miss Sue Bear reports dull constant kidney pain and backache with headaches and dizziness. She used Doan's Pills to relieve the trouble and says her mornings improved. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY promotes the product at 60 cents a box.
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Doan
Lititz
Sue Bear
Spruce St
Dean
Miss Bear
Foster-Milburn Co
Mtrs
Buffalo
N.Y
Free From Blight Three Chestnut Trees Found in Longwood
Three medium chestnut trees near Kennett Square Longwood survive chestnut blight since 1910 and still bear nuts. Prof Joseph J Mlick of the State Department of Forests and Waters notes these trees are remnants from the blight’s first appearance area around 1906 and they were sprayed for years before stopping.
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Longwood
Kennett Square
Joseph J. Mlick
State Department of Forests and Waters
Department
Slick
Pennsylvania
40 Bushels Wheat to Acre Reported at Quarryville Farm
On 29 acres at the Quarryville Real Estate Company farm the season yield measured 1 150 bushels from the thresher. Repeated remeasurement should average about 40 bushels per acre, the heaviest yield ever recorded on the farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quarryville Real Estate Company
Pre-War Cigar Tax Sought by Lancaster Growers
Lancaster County Tobacco Growers Association urges Congress to re establish the pre war internal revenue levy on cigars in a resolution linked to relief efforts. Congressman W W Greist to receive the resolution as growers weigh smaller higher quality cigars to boost industry sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County Tobacco Growers’ Association
Congress
W. W. Greist
Tomatoes flood Quarryville warehouses as harvest peaks
Large quantities of tomatoes fill the Bloch warehouse at Hess and Fourth streets awaiting shipment to Lancaster Vinegar Company. Five trucks haul 200 to 300 baskets daily, with heavy receipts at the Quarryville cannery keeping teams unloading through the day and night. Cabbage and alfalfa crops show strong yields with multiple cuttings and rising alfalfa seed sales.
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Bloch
Hess
Fourth Streets
Quarryville
Lancaster Vinegar Company
Lancaster
Sheep Return to Lancaster Farms After Years Away
A Lancaster writer notes farmers are rebuilding small flocks as high prices for lambs and wool attract attention. Sheep help weed control and land clean up, even in cornfields where they clip only lower blades and leave ears intact.
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Lancaster
Public Auction in Lititz Seeks Household Goods
On Saturday October 24 1925 a public sale will be held at 28 South Spruce Street Lititz Pa selling personal property including parlor suite divan couch Victrola Sonora Lake sideboard dining table chairs refrigerator electric washer and wringer one bedroom suite beds bedding wardrobe clothes trees dinner set glass pictures and frames jelly canned fruit oil heater and more. Sale starts at 1 PM with terms announced by Mrs Bertha Klaus S Hessler Auctioneer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spruce Street
Lititz, Pa
Sonora Lake
Coramenve
Bertha Klaus S. €. Hessler
Auet
Man jailed two months after rock shatters shop window
A man appeared before a magistrate after accidentally hurling a rock that smashed a shop window. The court ordered two months imprisonment as the outcome of the case.
Canadian Prairie Life From Ephrata Native Letter
Charles Steinmetz writes from Sheerness Alberta about prairie work in harvest and a coal mine job. He describes towns like Winnipeg Hanna and Banff, a 42 miner coal mine, 8 hour days, 75 foot trestle, and northern lights, with plans to travel to Vancouver or Banff for winter work.
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Sheerness
Alberta
Canada
Winnipeg
Hanna
Lancaster
George Hoover
Julius Warneboldt
Tie
Vancouver Island
Tle
London
Tree
Banff
Vancouver
Pennsylvania
Tam
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Munsing
Cooper
Duoford
High Rock
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Arrow
Ide
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Freeland
W. H. Buch
Johns Mansville
C. M. Snavely Garage
Notich
Andrew Longenecker
Penn Township
Lulu Longenecker
Keystone Exchanges
Greensburg High School
American Legion
Potter County
James Pollock
Mills
George M. Stewart
Silver Creek
Highland Corners
Jefferson County
Stewart Place
Stewart
H. Adams
LaMont
Lock Haven
Castanea
Pine
the County
Ephrata Young Man
Charles Steinmetz
Ephrata
George Steinmetz
Charles
Ephrata Review
United States
China
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Boston
Pittsburg
Tite Delphia
Lititz Springs National Bank
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