Local Items Include Filtration Plant and Elections
Mount Joy plans a 15000 dollar filtration plant as part of its water system. Lancaster County spends 385 on printing 46182 official ballots and 2660 on sample ballots. J Howard Hersh of Manheim owns Martha Washington’s coffee cup. John May, deserting soldier from Fort McIntosh, Texas, is arrested in Lancaster. Diamond Station farmer Jacob Andes threshes rye and wheat, four acres of rye yield 142 bushels, wheat about 35 bushels per acre. Tobacco curing hints at high quality and rising demand. Maytown gains an auto passenger service to Marietta with Intercourse Bank president Willis R. Knox forming a company. Hersh’s Martha Washington cup, inscribed 1776, is shown and sought after at times.
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Mount Joy
Lancaster County
J. Howard Hersh
Manheim
Martha Washington
John May
United States Army
Fort McIntosh
Tex
Lancaster
Jacob M. Andes
Diamond Station
Akron
Maytown
Marietta
Willis R. Knox
Intercourse National Bank
Teachers by Bay and Waiters at Night in Washington Schools
R. R. Horner of the Board of Education accused several Washington teachers of serving as waiters in liquor-selling resorts at night after teaching by day. The claim caused a sensation but was supported by attorney Armand W. Scott who said a personal probe backs the accusation. A thorough investigation will be undertaken.
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Washington
R. R. Horner
Board of Education
Fopner
Armand W. Scott
Thorugh
Wild Cherry Tree Rushes Across Ravine Near Albany
Elmer Burkholder of Lenape bent to inspect a wild cherry tree spanning a ravine near Albany in Berks county. He touched a black snake wound around the trunk and killed it. Snapped open, the serpent had a red squirrel inside its stomach.
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Albany
State-aid highway planned through Manheim district
State highway extending about twelve miles will be built before January 1, 1914 through Manheim West Earl and Warwick townships from Lititz turnpike beyond Neffsville to Brubaker’s cross roads with a possible link to Blackbill’s Hotel and Brownstown. Highway Commissioner Bigelow with County Commissioner Diller and Grabill Long reviewed the route and met local farmers and supervisors who welcomed the project.
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Bigelow
Lititz Turnpike
Neffsville
Wiker’s Schoolhouse
Oregon
Brackbill
Brownstown
Mechanicsburg
Jefferson Usner
Dr. Walters
Rothsville
Mr. Shirk
West Earl
Halloween Party Customs Describe Superstitions and Costumes
The piece outlines traditional Halloween practices such as mirror gazing to glimpse a future husband, candle jumping to predict years to marriage, and apple peel initials. It notes jack o lanterns pumpkins gnomes and brownies along with common costumes of witches devils fortune tellers ghosts and gypsies.
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Hallowe
Noted turfman now a sausage maker
Richard P. McGrann once mingled with aristocracy and bred horses for kings, but financial strain forced a move from Broadway society to running a sausage and scrapple plant near Lancaster. Once wealthy from a $500,000 inheritance, he now builds a future on a modest farm as creditors foreclose on Grand View Farm.
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Richard P. McGranh
Broadway
Lancaster
William Penn
Dick McGrath
Bernard G. McGranh
New York
London
Paris
Alffred G. Vanderbilt
England
McGrann
Italy
Richard
Richard McGrann
Newport
Long Branch
Europe
McGranh
Grand View Farm
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Cravenet
Teamsters
Walter H. Buch
S. Broad St. Record
Lititz, Pa
West Earl and
Warwick
Hallowe'en
Hoar
George F. Hoar
Massachusetts
Republican Party
Grant
Sumner
Schurz
Trumbull
Greeley
New York “Tribune
Republican
Chicago “Tribune
St. Louis
Hayes
Cox
Garfield
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Farmers National Bank
Lititz
Penna
Duntley
Lanecaster
Heinitsh’s
S. Queen St
Chas. H. Frey
King St
Apple
North Queen ST RU
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