Broad Pennsylvania notes on weather crops and tubercu loss
Low water marks hit the Black tock in the Susquehanna at Bloomsburg, corn yields reach high levels on Clinton Keister’s farm near New Cumberland, and a Steelton woman aged 103 defies a two year confinement. Tuberculosis Day observances expand with churches and schools urged to participate, while advice on blister beetles offers arsenate spray and oil blanket methods for asters and garden patches.
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Susquehanna
Bloomsburg
Clinton Keister
New Cumberland
National Association For the Study and Prevention of
National Association
Red Cross
Taft
Carolinal Farley
Col
Roosevelt
Ady
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Destructive Lancaster Storm Hits Farms and Towns
Last week's heavy rain and hail damaged hundreds of tobacco fields across Lancaster county. Losses exceed 100000 dollars with crops ruined in Clay Penn and Rapho townships and reports of ruined corn in many areas. Telecommunication failures and storm injuries occurred during a funeral procession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
Penn
Rapho
New Holland
Bareville
Akron
Terre Hill
Ephrata
Sarah
Bunn
South Hermitage
David Roseboro
Coatesville
John Gause
Honey Brook
The Patent Home Will Replace the Old House
The piece predicts a future patent home with automated beds and self cooking meals. It envisions self cleaning, disinfection and constant care for infants, while furniture and pictures update automatically. Family life would be recorded by phonograph and major events press a button for Life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Transmitting Electricity Across a Rubber Ball Chain
The article explains how electricity transfers energy through a conductor not as a flow of matter but by energy jumping from particle to particle. It uses a row of tangent rubber balls to illustrate energy transfer, noting the roles of ampere volt and ohm in measuring flow, pressure, and resistance.
Young man and clever girl meet on sunny street
A breezy street encounter between a young man about town and a clever bachelor girl unfolds at 10 in the morning. She teases him about a lobster dish from Newsburg and his tentative reply hints at new acquaintance and light humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Traveling Sand Hills on the Pomeranian Coast
Vast dunes drift along the coast of Pomerania driven by wind, moving 39 to 56 feet annually across pine woods. The advancing sand destroys trees, leaving only bare trunks that wither over years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomerania
Maurch
A Decade In Transit A Letter Found Among Books
In a library, Joseph Werner stumbles on an unfinished love letter inside a Josephus volume. The writer later reveals the letter was intended for him, written by a woman from a past romance. Werner tracks the writer down, they reunite and resolve to marry, finishing the letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Werner
Joe
Josephus
Werner
Fach
Vietory
Present Troubles in a Fractured Phrase
A quotes mashup traces wordplay in fortune telling and public notices. The Philadelphia Press and Washington Star styles show shifting phrasing from humorous lines about wives seeking absent husbands to praising practical men with solid sense.
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Washington Star
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Sharon
George Rickert
Grace Miller
Levi Miller
Coney Township
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Record Print
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Lititz
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J. Frank Buch
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LaFrance Oxfords & Pumps
W. M. Grube the Shoe Man
Lititz, Penna
Kofroth Electric Co
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A. R. Bomberger & Co
Geo. L. Heath
Justice of the Peace
Brunnerville
W.D
Fichthorn
Charles J. Landis
Aaron B. Hassler
Court of Common Pleas
County of Lancaster
Court House
Lanter
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
City of
Lancaster
County of
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Milton Ery
Ny Laboratory
Anc
Samuel Blanc
Blanc Pharmacy Sect
Parksive Ave— 6 Philadelphie
John D. Lair
Blue Ball
John D. Bair
Morris River Cove
E.cc. Ritchie Railroad
Lititz Ind
Hershey & Gibbel Conveyancers
Scriveners
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Lititz Pa
John F. Schleith
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Lithz. Inc
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