Lancaster City kids said, or screamed, when we were in the thin of a word battle or challenging a playmate to one. These words seemed to have an important place in the Ed- wardian child's world of give and take. Even "nice" children, (of which I hope you'll believe I was one), were known to use them on

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

The Last Child Born in the White House Miriam Eyde Bixler In the year of 1915, during President Wilson's administration, some very proud Lancaster County relatives and friends rejoiced in the birth of a child in the White House. We're referring, of course, to the birth of Dr. Francis Bowes Sayre