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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1957
Page
11
Joseph G. Knapp argues in Harvard Business Review that cooperatives knit farms to markets and supplies, creating an integrated farm enterprise system. They stabilize the economy with broad farmer ownership, push price efficiencies, and sustain competition by returning margins to patrons.
A vintage Iowa Falls Citizen item notes how errors led to dairy and confectionary innovations. Overheated milk produced dried milk, and a spill created the Eskimo Pie, later tied to Reynolds Aluminum through packaging and ownership.
A brief humorous note from St. Albans Naval Hospital News mocks gender views by claiming women ignore eye color and care only about money, reflecting light politics and social satire of the era.
Fifty years ago this week a Lancaster Common Pleas case drew wide tobacco circles. M K Strebig sued packer Charles W Bitner after Bitner refused delivery and later sold the sixteen acres of tobacco. The jury awarded Strebig the full value of 89884. Other notes include shad prices on the Susquehanna, Denver starch plant sales, and early fiber plant tests in South America.
A daily log notes 4 eggs hatched from 4 under a pigeon, 11 white piglets from a black sow, twins from an ola brindle cow, 99 chicks hatched from 150 eggs in an incubator, 14 goslings from two flocks of ten, and seven pups from an old beagle. Lefevre adds family news about his sister Elizabeth’s newborn son.
A 1920 gasoline price of 30 cents per gallon and .09 cent state tax rose to 13 cents with 4 cent tax in 1932, pushing total to 17 cents a gallon and over 30 percent to the state. The piece notes oil industry efficiency but fault taxes. Also recounts a 44 year marriage armistice for Tom Escoe and Sarah Sullins of Springfield Maryland after a 1888 quarrel.
A columnist reflects on Genesis chapters two and one, arguing that the earth is man’s home and that humans are meant to work with God to bring order. It stresses kinship with all life, the need for community, and true fulfillment through fellowship with God.
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