Club Formed To Aid Hood College Dormitory Fund
A Girls' Club named the Hundred Hood Helpers formed by former Hood College students and friends aims to raise 50000 dollars for a new dormitory. Members pledge 5 dollars each over two years, with county districts canvassed and a campaign closing soon. Volunteers urged to report to headquarters to boost soliciting power. A new method for round built up table tops is also noted.
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Hood College
Hundred Hood Helpers
Frederick
Mathers
LEFT BRIDE OF A DAY Also Takes Wife's Money
KE G Cooper of Harrisburg married Miss Mary Alice Reese of Wilkenbarra Va in Frederick. They left for Hagerstown and checked into Dagmar Hotel. Early next morning Cooper vanished after saying he would visit a barber shop, taking with him the wife’s purse containing all her money. Police and hotel staff searched. Cooper not found. Mrs Cooper given funds to return home. Swarthmore husband J Dunaway heard the couple arguing. Cooper known in Hagerstown. friends surprised by his sudden departure. Mrs Cooper a pretty former telephone operator.
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KE. G. Cooper
Harrisburg
Frederick
Mary Alice Reese
Wilkenbarra
Hagerstown
James A. Wright
Dagmar Hotel
Cooper
Paltee
MI4
J. QO
Dunaway
Swarthmore
First Visit in 30 Years Reveals Old Schoolhouse Echoes
Mr Jadon, former resident Tintin bare, returns to a county site near Annandale Schoolhouse for the first time in thirty years. He recalls the old school desks hewn from nearby timber, quill pens, and a simple morning fire fueled by cobs. Jadon, who once studied under teacher Crooks in 1881, left Emmitsoin for Teas then to Oregon, now reading Rendall in The News.
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Jadon Wa Ore
Annandale
Jecaton
Crooks
Jedon
Jodon
Texas
Portion
Oregon
The Butterfly Makes Her Autumnal Appearance
A fashion feature on fall styles by Anna May highlights a silver frock with turquoise tulle accents, a pastel green belt, and multicolored French flowers. It notes a two-tone mulberry velvet hat with a plum crown and venetian bow, plus evolving handkerchief designs featuring butterflies and towers.
Mathewson's Greatest Game In World Series 1912
The article recalls Christy Mathewson's famed eighth inning duel with the Red Sox in the 1912 World Series. Boston won 5 to 2 in ten innings as Mathewson’s team faltered late, yet the crowd praised his performance and Mathewson received heartfelt cheers and sympathy from rivals and fans alike.
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Boston
New York
Red Sox
Bin
Boston Fnally
Mitty
Acea
Matiewson
Hird
Matty
McGraw
New York World
Beetles absent from Spitzbergen the only land herd without them
A trimmed natural history note reports beetles as the most numerous group worldwide and notes Spitzbergen as the sole land area where beetles have not been found due to water barriers. The piece mentions the beetle's global spread and contrasts with other insects while citing a monthly popular science source.
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Spitzbergen
Veleanore
Nebetes
Spitzbercen
Russia
Bern
When a Whale Spouts and The Bible as Literature
A fragmentary excerpt contrasts whale spouting with breathing science and then shifts to a note on the Bible as literature. The text touches Roy Chapman Andrews and broad claims about the Bible’s composition, authors, languages, and purposes. It also includes a stray dialogue fragment and incomplete phrases.
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Lyman
Farmers to Resume Winter Meetings in Frederik County
The Frederik County Farmers Association will resume winter meetings on Saturday December 2 at 8 PM in the Y M C A. Topics include wheat embargo and prices for milk barbed wire fencing and farm machinery. A USDA official will speak. Noah E Cramer secretary is in Washington handling the matter.
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Frederik County
Y. M
United States Department 2 Agriculture
Noah E. Cramer
Association
Washngton
Widow Buck Leaves 30000 To Charity In Will
Mrs Hannah A Buck widow of Rev Charles L Buck of New Enterprise Bedford county died last week, bequeathing an estate valued at 30000 dollars to charity. One fourth goes to Old Falls Home of the Church of the Brethren at Martinsburg, Emmett Orphans Home at Huntingdon, and the church's home and foreign missions. A quilt over 104 years old goes to a sister. The remainder is to be distributed as directed.
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Altoon
Hannah A Buck
Charles L. Buck
New Enterprise
Bedford County
Charity Sho
Old Falls
Church of the Brethereen
Martinsburg
Emmett
Huntingdon
Church of the Brethren
Railroad stops for gunners in unique privilege
In StromIshurz Pennsylvania on November 27 the Delaware Valley railroad gave a hunting party special access, stopping its nine o'clock Bushkill line at a small station to permit pheasant shooting. The gesture, long permitted by the Delaware Valley management, claims to be the only railroad in the United States offering such a hunter friendly privilege.
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StromIshurz
Delaware Valley
Bushkill
Jongenguz
Scheiale
East Strewisfur
United States
Origin of the Word Farm in Saxon Times
Origin of farm traced to Saxon practice where manors leased land to freemen as fermes for a term of years with rent in kind. Over time rents shifted to money and terms evolved to life and inheritance. Includes conjoined notes from Westminster Gazette and De Chappie cartoon wit.
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Westminster Gazette
Fruit Cake Recipe and Odd Word Reversal Note
A lengthy description outlines a rich fruit cake recipe with butter, brown sugar, eggs, molasses, brandy, and fruit, baked slowly in two pans and stored airtight. It also mentions a word reversal anecdote and reports the Twin Mountain and Petomose railroad suspending operations for two days due to coal and car shortages on a Keyser to Burlington line.
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Failroad
Keyrer
W. Va
Twin Mountain and
Petomse
Mabiny
Fairmount
Keyser
Burlington
Pope's Cold Compounds Quick Relief Ad
An old advertisement touts Pope's Cold Compounds as the quickest relief for grippe and severe colds. It promises a dose every two hours for up to three doses, easing nasal congestion discharge throatache and feverish symptoms. Cost is 25 cents at drug stores.
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Pope
Real Estate Sale Under Steiner Will in Frederick County
By virtue of the will of Georgianna Steiner and an Orphans Court order in Frederick County, the executor will sell at public sale on Wednesday November 28 1916 at 10 o clock a m on the premises the Tollommey property. The real estate includes a two story brick dwelling with attic.
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N. Market Street
Frederick
N. Market St
Yganclog
D. C. Winebrener
Ilarry TR Snook
Novisdict
Creagerstown District
Frederick County
Maryland
Jane E. Warner
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Liber
T. H
Creagers
Jane
Warner and Family
Creagerstown
T. HL
Jacob Rohrback
Gee
A. Pearre
Winkiam E. Daerner
dwNov
Georgianna Steiner
Erick County
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Tollommey
West Fourth Street
Chape Money
Lance
Tspala
Orphah
Penge
Harvey R
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