Lancaster County Notes and Local Curious Facts
Edwin B. Searles accepts Lancaster Y M G A secretaryship in Dayton Ohio. A despondent man’s body is found by two girls near Lancaster. Lancaster’s real estate and population figures are noted alongside multiple local incidents. A longtime Elizabethtown teacher marks 40 years in education while another begins 46th term. A veteran postal clerk enters new duties in Marietta. A railway conductor boasts 3.5 million miles traveled. Poultry interest thrives in Florin. Rural carriers are advised to wrap coins for postage. Noxious-animal bounties are funded as state aid resumes. County townships receive highway funds with Salisbury leading. A Manheim man owns an antique chair inherited from his matriarch. A tongue-in-cheek domestic science note references fruit-based cures in a Brazil Indiana lecture.
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Edwin B. Searles
Dayton
Lancaster Y. M. G. A
Mountville
Lancaster City
Lancaster
Charles Kreamer
John Schwender
D. H. Singer
Elizabethtown
A. E. Jacoby
David A. Brandt
John Orth
Marietta
Board of Service Examiners
Eli B. Ruth
Pennsylvania Railroad
Florin
Pennsylvania
Post Office Department
Lancaster County
State Highway Department
Salisbury
Lancaster Township
Samuel Yocum
Manheim Borough
Odd dictograph record stuns husband in bedroom snore test
Mrs. Ravenyelp plays a dictograph recording for Henry to guess the sounds from a phonograph. He suggests birds and instruments, while she reveals it is his own snoring recorded in their bedroom. The exchange ends with a humorous admission and a hope to end future arguments.
Seees House: Early Lancaster County Fort and Dwelling
Dr J H Seiling explores the Sees House on Horse-shoe Pike near Hammer Creek in Elizabeth township Lancaster County noting 25 inch thick native stone walls 40 by 40 feet 23 stories with a peaked roof and inscriptions 1747 marking completion and a second 1738 engraving Gotlieb and Gotlieba Tse. The dual home doubled as a fort with 19 step well and defendable features including small windows shutters and an oiled paper light door.
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Lancaster County
J. H. Seiling
Steigel
Brickerville
Old Hopewell Forge
Hammer Creek
Elizabeth Township
John N. Becker
Sensenig
Edgewood
Balthasar
SVS
Maria
Barbara Svsen
Women urged to report skirt width and heel height after fall
The Pennsylvania Railroad orders train personnel to note the width of a woman's skirt and the height of her heel whenever a woman falls from a train. The rule aims to study accidents believed linked to fashion hazards and requires men to provide assistance as before.
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The
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Persian Opium Cakes Export Process Described
The article describes Persian opium juice being processed into cakes for export. Juice is fermented and dried on wooden boards under sun, workers turn surfaces to evaporate water, then the material is molded into one pound portions and pressed into wooden forms. Final cakes are wrapped in red paper from China and packed into tin lined cases.
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China
Christiann Herald
Bushy tailed rats pack and steal with bright things
A passage cites the bushy tailed pack rat found across the west and north to Hudson Bay. It details their clever theft of knives forks spoons and bright portable items, plus stories of rats carrying objects to nests and attempting to replace them with sticks, as recounted by naturalists and hunters.
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Hudson Bay
Merriaus
New York Sun
Reading His Fortune
A man wins a dollar at craps and seeks a fortune teller. She palm reads with a dollar, lays cards, and declares his loves music and chicken, that he has won money at craps, and that he has been in jail. He protests that she reads his thoughts.
Two Story Man At Circus Stuns Six Year Old
Elmer aged six accompanied his father to the circus and, amid the strange acts, spotted a man standing on the shoulders of another claiming there is a two story man. The moment captured a child's wonder at the marvels under the big top.
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Elmer
Chicago News
To Make Sure Spanking Plan Between Mrs Younglove
Conversation shows Mrs Younglove proposing spanking if the baby is sick and the plan to fetch a doctor. Younger voice responds with agreement to proceed if fear about the child’s sickness is real. The fragment hints at parental tension and practical steps.
Mated. A Shoemaker as Sole Mate Quip in Baltimore American
A Baltimore American blurb jokes that Mayme’s affinity is a shoemaker and calls him “the very man to be a sole mate.” It quotes Ruskin on the first test of a truly great man being humility, pairing witty quips with a light literary aside.
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Mayme
Baltimore
Ruskin
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Mentor Union
W. H. Buch
Record. Building
Lititz
Romine
Clay County Teachers’ Institute
Brazil
Ind
Romide
New Jersey
Lancaster Intelligencer
America
Farmers National Bank
Lititz, Penna
Leinbach & Co
Lancaster, Pa
Lancaster’s Daylight Department Store
S. & H. Green
Bell
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
East
King St
W. A
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