Poland Ham Imports Rise Sharply in Early 1956
The American Meat Institute reports a 34 percent rise in Polish ham imports in the first two months of 1956 versus 1955, with February up 94 percent to 2.64 million pounds. January 1956 totals reached 4.04 million pounds, a 11 percent gain. Last year Polish ham imports rose 13 percent from 1954, totaling 19.72 million pounds.
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Poland
American Meat Institute
Meat Packers’ Organization
United States
Corn Belt
AMI
Argentina
March Weather Ends with Snowy Splendor and Uncertain Spring
Lancaster County endured a tempest of weather in March 1956 with heavy snows, late warmth, and renewed winter storms. The record snow surpassed years back, blocking highways and delaying spring expectations amid fluctuating forecasts and cautious predictions for April.
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Lancaster County
Lancaster hosts EPHA show boosts county appeal
Lancaster County welcomes the Eastern Polled Hereford Association Show and Sale drawing out of town buyers and visitors. A Midwestern publisher vows to relocate here for better business access while a Kentucky tobacco grower spots Lancaster as a fertile cattle hub. The event promises larger operations and stronger agricultural prestige for the Garden Spot.
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Lancaster County
Utah
Kentucky
Fifty Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms
A Jersey City dispatch tells of Anna Patrino four saved from drowning by Patrino’s horse at Morris Canal. Other notes detail hired help costs, a Bantam hen’s antics, a Safe Harbor livestock sale, a barn dynamite accident near Hammond, and Quail distribution by Nat Ressler. A bankruptcy petition against Fred E Rosebrook Co. in New York cites liabilities of 411000 with 315000 assets.
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Lancaster
Jersey City
Anna Patrino
P. L Patrino
Morris Canal
Patrino
Charlie
Chester
York County
Safe Harbor
Hs&s. Kerbaugh Co
PRR
Edward Raubenstine
West Manheim
York
Raubenstine
Ceputy
Nat Ressler
Harrisburg
Fred E Rosebrook Co
Greenwich Street
New York City
Butter and Egg Commission Houses
Woman attorney breaks ground defending murder suspect in Pa.
25 years ago in 1931 Miss M Edna Horst, appointed by Judge M Groff, became the first woman in Pennsylvania to defend a man charged with murder in the William Craig case at Safe Harbor. The item also notes odd anecdotes about a Nevada farmer’s dog and aArkansas farmer’s quip about Ponce de Leon.
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America
M. Edna Horst
M. Groff
William Craig
Jack McNeil
Safe Harbor
Pennsylvania
Go Church Mission and Power of Spirit
An April 8, 1956 lesson likens church mission to a bomber mission needing fuel engine and crew. It argues a going church is missionary, powered by the Holy Spirit, and that prayer for power must lead to active witness and world outreach.
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Foreman
Jesus
Christ
God
Church
Larg
Division of Christian Education
Ntional Conzieil
Churches of Christ J
U.S. A
Community
Press Service
Pennsylvania Clean Up Week designates statewide cleanup drive
The 1931 Clean Up Week spans April 12 as state health and safety officials urge removal of inflammable debris from homes gardens fields and roads. Cesspools husks spouting and refuse cleansing are urged as citations note. A Lancaster meeting appoints delegates for Pennsylvania State College trustees election.
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State Department of Health, Welfare, Forests and Waters
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Ernest J. Neill C, Wallace Abel
Robert G. Campbell
Robert J. Wiggins
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EPHA
Lancaster Farms
Jack Reichard
Philip Schneider
Hammond
Ind
Farmer
Farm and Pardon
State College Dairy Extension Service
Gerald Dugan
Ely
Nev
Robert de Leon
LePanto Ark
Ponce de Leon
Bieatney
Carlton Reitelart
Ford Wayne
Farmers’ Protective Association
Pennsylvania State College
Samuel Sheaffer
W. D. Marburger
Millersville
Ezra Stoltzfus
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