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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1958
Page
11
Rising farm prices lift Ezra Benson's defense while lawmakers debate new farm legislation. The article notes price gains since December and the broader fight over continuing or changing farm programs amid propaganda and higher processing costs.
Reading section report states Mrs Elizabeth Stewart, wife of a farmer, is accused of dueling Rosa Strause, a home employee. Rosa says harsh work hours and a fatal garden incident led to a gun being involved. investigators find the gun and evidence suggesting injury.
Congress passes a law reducing postage from three to two cents effective October 1 1883. The new two cent stamp features a Washington profile in an oval band with United States Postage at the top and two Cents at the bottom. Earlier that year over 9000 commercial telegraph operators in 200 cities across the United States and Canada protested for higher wages and shorter hours.
A sweeping list of historical snippets notes 1908 tornado devastation across Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama with hundreds killed and thousands homeless. It recalls a New Jersey farmer’s novel egg burying method and a Atlantic City church opening controversy. It also cites tobacco farming near Marietta and emergency state aid for Pennsylvania schools amid farm relief debate.
Lancaster Farming weekly, founded 1935 and published every Friday by Octoraro Newspapers Quarryville PA, lists editors and officers Alfred Alspach publisher Robert Best editor Robert Campbell advertising director Robert Wiggins circulation director. Subscription rates quoted as $2 per year three years $5 and single copy five cents.
In festation of European Corn Borer rising in the county prompts farmers to plow down or destroy corn stalks by May 1 to prevent last year’s trash from breeding new borers. Farmers urged to avoid 24D ester sprays due to drift and injury to legumes tomatoes and shrubs and instead use amine forms. Regular fertilization of farm ponds advised with complete fertilizers 10105 or 284 at 250 pounds per year per half acre, applied gradually. Caution urged to prevent seeds and fertilizer contact during planting as it can kill or stunt germination and injure inoculated crops.
FAHE discusses freedom in Bible religion contrasting popular views of God with a biblical aim of deliverance. The sermon contrasts fear driven faith with joyous responsibility, notes Exodus and Sinai implications, and argues true freedom is freedom-for under God.
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