Womanly headaches and Dr. Pierce’s remedy touted in ad notices
The passage promotes Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for headaches and womanly ailments, claiming it reestablishes regularity and heals inflammation. It includes patient testimonials and urges readers to trust the medicine and order Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. It also notes two deaths: Mrs. Tillie Camp near Cashtown at about age 62 and Mrs. Margaret Bender of East Berlin, aged 65 years 6 months 18 days with one daughter surviving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan McKeneie
Lorway Mines
Cape Breton Co
Nova Scotia
Pierce
Fluex
Ierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Tillie Camp
Cashtown
Tillie Trego
Margaret Bender
East Berlin
Adams County Orphans Court to confirm admin accounts
Notices state the Orphans Court of Adams County Pa will review first and final accounts on Saturday January 16 1904 at 10 30 o'clock am. Accounts listed include W H Carbauh administrator of Catharine Carbauh late of Mount Pleasant township. Wm H Deatrick administrator of Wm H Scott late of Butler township. Wm Arch Mc Cheun administrator of George Guiden. Security Vide Trust Co executor of Ephraim Myers will for George B Myers. Lewis Co Overbaugh administrator of John O Hemiler. Amos Stair executor of Hetie Troxel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orphan's Court
Adams County
W. H. Carbaurh
Catharine Carbaurh
Mountpleasant Township
Security Vide & Trust Company
York
Lund
Ephrafim Myers
George B. Myers
Lewis Co. Overbaugh
John O. Hemiler
Het Ie ‘Troxel
Burslick
Littlestown
Abbottstown resident injures left arm in fall
Maria Trimmer of Abbottstown fell while on an errand Monday and broke her left arm. The report notes the incident as a local accident with medical attention expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maria Trimmer
Abbottstown
Local Wedding Roundup in Lancaster County Area
The week brings several marriages across the region. Harry Brown and Jennie Deardorff wed at Cashtown on December 17 at the bride’s parents home. James J. Golden and Bessie Hartlaub married at Lititz on a Tuesday at the Lutheran parsonage. Ephraim B. Swope and Annie Watson tied the knot in Harrisburg on Monday at Ridge Avenue Methodist parsonage with Rev Horace Lincoln Jacobs officiating. William Sweitzer and Grace Schriver were united in York on Sunday December 20 at the bride’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Brown
Fairfield
Jennie Deardorff
Adam Deardorff
Cashtown
James J. Golden
Reuben Golden
York
Bessie Hartlaub
Hir
John Hartlaub
Littlestown
C. P. Bastian
Ephraim B. Swope
Annie Watson
Iron Springs
This County
Ridge Avenue Methodist Parsonage
Harrisburg
Horace Lincoln Jacobs
Wm Sweitzer
James Sweitzer
Grace Schriver
Local residents visit and notable death reported
University of Maryland students and other locals spend holidays with families across multiple towns. Rev. Mother St. Walburger, head of the Provincial Order of Nuns, dies in Philadelphia after a long illness. she was born in England 65 years ago.
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Mother Warburger
Philadelphia
Mother St. Weburger
United States
General Markets report from Philadelphia and Baltimore
Philadelphia markets show flour and rye steady with firm wheat and firm corn. Prices listed for butter eggs potatoes and pork beef. Baltimore wheat and corn quoted steady to very firm. Union Stock Yards Pittsburgh reports higher cattle and hogs with mixed sheep and calves pricing.
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Philadelphia
Pena
City Mills
New York
Penna
Baltimore
Southern
Union Stock Yards
Pittsburg
P.gs
Trying to avert war over Panama and Colombia
Diplomatic pressure from European powers is urged to stop any Colombia United States war over Panama. General Rafael Reyes warns Bogota, EU diplomats say Europe seeks the canal, and Panama issue could trigger a wider conflict. The United Colombian Committee in Paris threatens a sequence from recognition to The Hague arbitration and possible war. Also a notice from Springfield about Odd Fellows saloonkeeper expulsions dated 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Columbia
United States
Rafael Reyes
Colombia
Panama
Bogota
Marroquin
General Reyes
Reyes
Great Britain
Netherlands
Republic of Panama
Paris
United Colombian Committee
Hague Arbitration Court
Europe
Entire family exterminated in Cleveland tragedy
Roscoe W. Derby a 46 year old machinist shot his wife Della and three children Harold 8 Alice 6 and Thomas 5 in their bed and home near Cleveland on December 21 then killed himself. The killings followed a note to a friend promising the family would be dead. Police found pool room checks indicating Derby gambled.
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Cleveland
Roscoe W. Derby
Roscoe Derby
Della
Harold
Alice
Thomas
Mrs. Derby
Derby
Mine Engineer a Hero by Explosion at Mount Jessup Shaft
John Mc Ginnis, engineer at the Mount Jessup shaft in Peckville, was badly injured when an air tank exploded near his station. He signalled workers to evacuate and raised all 50 men to the surface despite severe injuries, likely saving them from gas buildup and further danger. The blast damaged the engine room and shattered windows in Jes suppress?
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
John McGinnis
Mount Jessup
Peckville
Jessup
Perkyitle
First U.S. Jury of Six Women Sits in Juvenile Case
A Chicago jury of six women sat before Judge Honore in a juvenile case, marking a historic moment in local legal history. The proceeding, recorded on December 19, demonstrates a pivotal step in gender representation within the courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Honore
Week's News Condensed From December Seventeen
A rolling summary notes deaths from wood alcohol in New York. factory shutdowns in Lancaster. Virginia allocates 10000 for a state building at the St Louis fair. Buchanan sails to Panama. Boer exhibit plans in New York. Prohibition convention in Kansas City. Fifer nominated to interstate commerce post. Wilkes-Barre traction workers accept 5 cent raise. Mrs Manning elected World’s Fair board president. Other items include a Cleveland tram crash injuring 20. Bryan in Moscow. Lew Wallace on cancer treatment. a Lancaster judge general dies. a Kentucky home fire. Chicago coffin makers form a combine. Powell named Burlington customs collector. Avonmore explosion. a Minnesota mother drowns. Roosevelt twins return to Washington. Congress adjourns for Christmas. Bayonne fire leaves 30 homeless. Chicago Dems organize. a lynching in Tennessee. Marietta shooting. Supreme Court adjourns. McClellan resigns. Christian Party convention. a Spain royal marriage rumor.
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New York
Pennsylvania Rolling Mills
Lancaster
Virginia
St. Louis Fair
William J Buchanan
United States
Republic of Panama
Panama
Benjamin Viljoen
St Louis
Haa
Prohibition Party
Kansas City
Roosevelt
Senate
Joseph W. Fifer
Illinois
Wilkesbarre and Wyoming Valley (Pa.) Traction Company
Daniel Manning
Albany
N. Y
James L. Blair
Cleveland
William J. Bryan
Moscow
Russia
Telstoi
Lew Wallace
B. Frank Eshelman
Pennsylvania National Guard
Benjamin Benedict
Rushland
Chicago
Snowden Hamnes
Burlington
N. J
Avonmore
Anna Krenen
Leseur
Minn
Theodore, Jr
Kermit Roosevelt
Washington
Groton
Mass
White House
Congress
Bayonne
Democrats
Joseph Brake
Rupley
Tenn
Marietta
Clarence Cantrell
William Shipp
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Penn’*A
WM. H. Fowler, Degister
Gettysburg Gas Company
Nacr’s
Pennsylvania State Forestry Association
O Eo Stable
Gettysburg
Ehyren
Fray Adams
Messra
Geo A. Snyders
J. E. OC. Miller
University of Maryland
Dental Dept
Mable Sheetz
Woman’s College
Frederick
J .L. Sheetz
Sqr
Joy Mesginger
Frank Blair
Columbus
Ohio
Susan Blair
Joseph Himes
State College
G. T. Himes
William Himes
Swarthmore College
Mirs
W. A. Himes
Center Square
Nita Cashman
J.L Shegtz
Kiev
F. Hesse
New Oxford
J. A. Sheely
Bride
Gen. Reyes
Springfield
Charles C. Pavey
Independunce Order of Odd Fellows
Mary McGann
Ann McGann
Dunning
United States Supreme Court
George B. McClellan
Mayger
Syiaker Cannon
Christian Party
St. Louis
Madrid
Agfonso
Spain
Maria del Pilar
Bavaria
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