War veterans reunite after sixty years apart in York County
Tenry Thompson of Emigsville and Levi Flinchbaugh of York, both ex members of the 100th Regiment Penn’a Volunteers, met for the first time since their Civil War service after years of living within three miles of each other. Thompson’s son is Rev. J. W. Thompson of Trinity U. E. York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenry Thompson
Emigsville
Levi Flinchbaugh
York
Penn
Thomson
J. W. Thompson
Trinity U. E. Church
Flinchbaugh
Mr. Thompson
Emigaville
Thompson
Coal Bin Rescue Leaves Man Free After Six Hours
Elkhart Indiana Clarence Moldy aged fifty six yard manager for Godfrey and Son coal dealers was trapped in a coal bin for six hours. A twelve foot square cut in the elevator siding released the coal and freed his leg. Eddy climbed a ladder to safety after help arrived. The bin held two hundred tons of fine coal and the roof collapsed trapping him ten feet within the mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhart
Ind
Clarence Moldy
Godfrey & Son
Eddy
Sddy
Walter Lehman
Boy in Delphi Has Fourteen Grandparents
Delphi Indiana reports Dean Overholser son of Mr and Mrs L Overholser born in Carroll County now lists fourteen grandparents. Ten are blood relatives and four by marriage including great grandparents D G Overholser and William McManama. George MecManama and his first wife became part of the family again through remarriage, expanding the grandparent count.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphi
Ind
Dean Overholser
L. Overholser
Carroll County
Charles Overholser
George MecManama
James Bridge
D. G. Overholser
William McManama
Isaac Wagoner
Rachel Richardson
Margaret Bridge
Orpha Johnson
Twenty Indian Skeletons Found in Oregon City Dig
Workmen for Frank Busch uncovered twenty Indian skeletons in a single hole along the river bank. A skull found earlier, likely a chief, lies separate. The bones form a wheel-like pattern with a baked clay crust over the grave, and arrowheads in some remains suggest battle deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon City
Ore
Frank Busch
Buseh
Parrot Egg Teaches Lifesaving Tricks at Riverside Inn
At the Mission Inn Riverside California the pet white parrot Opal in urgent care under a vet’s orders and hot compresses produced an eggshell moment as the bird, twenty, laid an egg after heroic home remedies and owner Frank A. Miller tended to the writhing animal amid patrons’ excitement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside
Cal
Opal
Mission Inn
Frank A. Miller
Horses and mules to be delivered to Chestnut Street stables
H A Smith of Hanover Pennsylvania announces delivery by express of one carload of Ohio and Kentucky horses to his stables on Chestnut Street plus one carload of broke and green mules. The shipment is planned for Thursday May 18th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Kentucky
H. W. Parr
Hanover
Chestnut Street
Express
H. A. Smith
Desirable Private Sale Home Along Lincoln Highway
A modern two story frame dwelling with stable and garage on Lincoln Highway near New Oxford Borough is offered at private sale. The home is described as up to date and admirably located and priced reasonably. Inquiries to T. J. Herman Route 2 New Oxford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Highway
New Oxford
T. J. Herman
Man Shoots Horse on 90th Birthday Fulfillment
Josiah Collins of Farnell Ohio celebrated his ninetyeth birthday by shoeing a horse at the local blacksmith shop. A native of Ohio, he began forging at nineteen and vowed to shoe a horse on his ninetyeth birthday, a vow he kept with pride. In Helena Mrs. Clarissa Furgeson claims a clock 110 years old still keeping time, bought in 1908 after passing through the Tunnison family for sixty two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lehigh Canal
Bethlehem
A. B. Cotton
Purdue U College
Cotton
Philip Knobloch
Farnell
Josiah Collins
Collins
Ohio
Helena, Mo
Clarissa Furgeson
Tunnison
Greenville
F’urgeson
Local News Briefs From Allentown and Nearby Areas
Wedged for hours in a hay chute Daniel Klingaman of Allentown was rescued after the chute had to be destroyed. He was hospitalized. Also reported is a York hotelier Thomas Daryman died of heart trouble after waking and opening a window. A Nazareth teller Herbert A. Buse, 27, died by suicide. An Erie or Carlisle incident notes vertigo during a demonstration run leaving W. A. Failor injured. Chamberlain’s Tablets lauded by several pharmacists and users for stomach troubles and indigestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Klingaman
Allentown
Thomas Daryman
City Hotel
York
Herbert A. Buse
Second National Bank of
Nazareth
W. A. Failor
Carlisle
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Chamberlain
Siivan
Sloan
Harrisburg
State Board of Education
Commonwealth
Millers Hill
Lancaster County
Kutztown
Shippensburg
Kiing
Dr. King
Snow Hill
Atwood Jenkins
Grano
Levi Robinson
Alonzo
Jenkins
W. Archer
Caldwell
Kennedy
Pottsville
Geo. Erdman
R. Va
Eerdman
John Arner
Leechburg
Lloyd
Arner
Hole
Boy
Indiana
Philadelphia Street
Ziegler Bros
New Oxford, Pa
Weaver's Warehouse
Hanover Street
J. R. Weaver & Bro
The
Oxford
Pitt St
W. M. Depot
Center Square
G. F. Grove
Item Office
Allacy
Kansas
Jae
Nebraska
State Board of Control of Kansas
Kansas Penitentiary
Topeka
Pennsylvania State Brewers’ Association
Baltimore Street
Hanover, Pa
Brown Surety
Bell
Princ
Mre. O. FE
Riley
Ilion
N. Y
H. Murphy
Welleburg
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