Bean Soup Special to Welcome McClure Recruits on Sept 27
Highlights include the McClure bean soup special in Sunbury directed by Capt Henry K Bitter Camp Sons of Veterans, a 20 year old homecoming event for former McClure residents with Civil War veterans making soup for about 20 000 people. Other items note a 14 year carpentry project yielding a 26 by 82 inch inlaid table with 10082 pieces, a $1000 theft at a Sugar Notch cigar store, and long track walking records by Dennis Walters.
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McClure
Sunbury
Satuday
Henry K. Bitter Camp
Sons of Veterans
Snyder County
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dennis Walters
Norristown
German Herwit Finds Odd Spring Near Mt Gretna
Emil Seltman a 65 year old former German engineer and aviation model maker living as a recluse in a lean to near Mt Gretna Lebanon County. He works as a woodchopper on South Mountain and claims to have found a spring with youth like qualities while wandering the hills since World War I. His life shows travels from Berlin to America a career in engineering and ranching and a distrust born from thefts and war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Mt. Gretna
Lebanon Co
Emil Seltman
Seltman
South Mountain
Germany
America
United States
Reading and Fair Schedules and Rural Travel Tale
The notice lists numerous fairs from Sept through Dec including Reading Allentown Trenton Lancaster York Doylestown and Ephrata Farmers Day and a Lanc. County Sunday School Convention and a National Grange gathering in Atlantic City plus a Read ing State Grange meeting. A short comic tale follows about Gerald and a girl on a car ride with brakes failing and a daring escape by smashing through a gate.
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Reading
Allentown
Trenton
Lancaster
York
Doylestown
Ephrata
Lancaster County
Lutheran Church
Manheim
Atlantic City
N. J
Pennsylvania State Grange
Moths Replace Social Butterities in Louisville Note
A Louisville Herald opinion remark counters the term social butterflies by noting women sift through clothes, suggesting moths better describe the behavior. The quip frames social activity with a humorous, pointed comparison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Herald
Crime or Jest at English Post Office Mystery
A small tax related parcel with an insufficient address was opened at a local English post office revealing a human Denes. The incident remains unexplained with no clear crime proven or whether it was a prank by a hospital student.
Pennsylvania small game protection boosts wildlife numbers
The State Game Commission reports a two year war on vermin increased small game populations. 18,000 vermin killed. bounties paid 189,714 dollars. Weasels led bounty kills, while 95,086 animals were trapped June 1 1922 to May 31 1924. Elk and deer rising, bears increasing. hunters seek five point horn rule changes for deer. Norman Coykendall bagged a 633 pound black bear near Governor Pinchot’s home in 1928.
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Pennsylvania
Seth E. Gordon
Commission
Ma. Gordon
Regal Bucks
Gordon
Norman Coykendall
Miliford
City Restores Cobblestones Cuts Paving Costs
City salvages aging cobblestones by refitting worn stones and filling cracks with asphalt to save on paving bills. This method reuses existing material, extending street usability while reducing new material costs and construction time.
Notorious Welsh mount Buzzard returns home to family
After more than half his 70 years behind bars, Abe Buzzard, infamous Welsh Mountains figure, is released and plans to live with his daughter and son in law. He vows to avoid crimes and any chicken roasts. Previously he spent months in Reading after release, near Philadelphia.
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Abe Buzzard
Welsh Mountains
Eastern
Buzzard
Reading
Philadelphia
Boulder to memory of Indians planned
The Lancaster County historical society set September 13 for unveiling a tablet in memory of the Conestoga Indians who first settled in the area. The tablet sits on a three and a half ton boulder placed behind Millersville in Manor township.
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Lancaster County Historical Society
Millersville
Manor Township
Paid Honest Debts and Bootlegging Case Across Counties
A Hawley hardware merchant, William Watts, received a 50 cent payment from a stranger who claimed a knife debt years old. In Butler County, Mary Benchuk, 40, was sentenced to pay costs, an $800 fine, and one year in Allegheny county workhouse for a second bootlegging offense, with prison time delayed to December 1 to allow her husband to finish a six month term and care for their two children.
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William §. Watts
Hawley
Chicago
New York
Mary Benchuk
Buttler Township
Butler County
Menninger
Allegheny County
Nick Benchuk
Five Cent Coffee Era Ends Driven by Coffee Costs
Detroit restaurateur J. A. Fitzgerald told Chicago’s National Restaurant Association convention that the five cent cup of coffee will fade away as fixed costs rise. He blamed the Brazilian government for keeping coffee shipments limited, saying profits vanish when selling at five cents. He noted fewer patrons since prohibition and that many restaurants have closed.
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J. A. Fitzgerald
Detroit
National Restaurant Association of Chicago
Readers demand a Winchester for unpaid debts
An Idaho paper notes a Kansas editor borrowed a Winchester to confront delinquent subscribers. They chased him down the street demanding payment leading to gifts of hay corn apples potatoes wood and turnips. The gag line asks who owns a Winchester to rent.
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Ninois
Kansas
Winchester
Tobacco Stalks Six Feet High Experiment in York County
Tobacco stalks in York county fields reach six feet as an experimental plot by leading cigar manufacturers seeks better quality tobacco for kinder uses. The Round Tip variety was selected as most satisfactory. the test occurred behind the Enterprise Tobacco Company's warehouse in Red Lion.
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York County
Enterprise Tobacco Company
Red Lion
Just a Suspicion Stade-Say waiter joke headline
The exchange pits a diner and waiter over soup while a joke about flavor and size unfolds. A progressive grocer reference underlines the satire.
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Sir Slade
Expensive Roman Wives Prompt Caesar to Promote Marriage
Julius Caesar offered premiums to encourage marriage as wives of Rome grew costly. He permitted married women to dress superbly and exempted the wife who bore three children from certain taxes.
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Rome
Julius Caesar
Fall and Winter Garden Tips for Farmers Calendar
Weed out young pullets and cockerels to free space for better birds. Fall lawn seeding in late August or September builds drought resistance and crowds out weeds. For lulls with poor humus sow grain as green manure, then grass in spring. Spring is best for forest tree planting. thinning occurs in fall and winter. Fall planting of hardy perennials includes peonies, delphiniums, phlox, iris, hollyhocks, foxglove, and chrysanthemums. September moves for iris and peony roots.
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Tarkspur
Pearls From Diverse Regions and Ancient Sources
The article traces pearl sources across the globe from the pearl oyster in the Persian Gulf to waters near Ceylon, Borneo, New Guinea, and Australia. It describes native diving methods, lifting practices, and post-harvest processing, noting artificial pearl production in France, Germany, and Italy using glass cores and ammonia and fish scale fillings.
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Ceylon
Gulf of Mavuar
Persian Gulf
Borneo
New Guineas
Gulf of Mexico
Australia
France
Germany
Italy
Nose as Character Map from 1923 Psychology of Features
A 1923 Western Newspaper Association piece explains facial anatomy linking nose shapes to traits. It describes a perceptive looker with gossiping instincts, an imitation-driven performer, and a businesslike acquisitive nose, plus the executive nose tied to leadership and firm head features.
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Commerce
Too Far Gone to Reform
A Philadelphia Record item notes a girl's reputation as a no power of earth to reform, suggesting social pressures and judgments in the era's moral expectations. The brief reflects on perceived inherent trouble and the community's stance toward redemption.
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Philadelphia Record
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Wilkes-Barre
Luzerne County
James P. Manley
Sugar Noteh
Mill Hill
George H. Ziegler
Upper Hanover Township
Lehigh County
Zeigler
M. A. Davis
Mifflin County
Jana
Ort Valley
Herwit
Isis
Jain
W. H. Euch
Fire House
Lititz, Pa
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Dale
Edinburg
Texas
J. B. Lyons
Boulder
Beos
Asiom
Quytator
Boston Evening
Ty. Uacripb
Sik
Zartman
Record Printing House
Ralph, M. Spacht
Eyitez
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