Handkerchiefs DOW WM.. Y A SCARFS. OLD SANTA CLAUS S itt3IF ., ERISMAN PAF IP o15. E A: account of Christmas in Lancaster in 1874 us older readers ers. The following article is a e of excerpts from the 26 December 1874 issues of The Intelligencer and The Daily Express. Drug I Dry Store Site Northern Market

Street was one contin- uous block, Lancaster Avenue being then unopened. The house in which I was born (437 West James Street, now the Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity House) was built about 1875 or 1876. My sister Helen and my brother John were not born there, but I think my brother Charlie was. He was born

A Lancaster City Boy of the Gay Nineties Abner McMichael Eyde, with Miriam Eyde Bixler In 1891, when I was ten years old, my Dad, Eli Eyde, was transferred from his Columbia job as telegrapher for the Pennsylvania Railroad to the tower at Lancaster on North Prince Street between Walnut and Lemon

A Lancaster City Boy of the Gay Nineties Part 2* by Abner McMichael Eyde with Miriam Eyde Bixler A boy really worked for his spending money in my day, none of this allowance business. You got a few pennies for Sunday School and church and mostly that was it, unless your older brothers and sisters

to receive had not been paid. I added that in any event she could not recover wages for more than six years. I knew Irving slightly. After the death of his parents he lived alone in the apartment which Mrs. Schalm cleaned. In Lancaster County parlance he was a "catbird." A "catbird," as we understand