Mid-Winter Drought Highlights National Water Worries
The piece surveys drought conditions across the nation, noting relief in the Great Southwest from unexpected rainfall while others face severe shortages. It recalls St Louis snowfall after 47 drought days and cites water sales halts in Iowa towns, water train memories, and calls for irrigation amid ongoing water conservation and oiling distrust of rainfall forecasts.
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Great Southwest
St. Louis
Weather Bureau
Adams County
Iowa
Free Press
Burlington
Omaha
Creston
Missouri
Retrospect from Lancaster Farming readers praise
A reader letters page thanks the Lancaster Farming editor for issues sent and compliments Bible comments ladies household suggestions coloring section at Christmas. The note includes blessings for Tim and Mrs Cronin and their children Timmy Mickey Nora Dennis and Terry.
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Lancaster Farming
Tim
Mrs. Cronin
Timmy
Mickey
Nora
Dennis
Terry
Telephone expansion fuels rural farm lines in Lancaster County
The nation’s telephone growth brings farms onto dial service. In Lancaster County 5 627 farms had telephones in 1954, up from 4 551 in 1950, with 70 percent of county farms connected. By 1956 more farm homes will gain this convenience as dial expands countywide.
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Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
Record of historic farm harvest and farm life notes
30 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms recounts a record corn harvest on Jacob Adams’s Sac County Iowa farm with 105 men and 200 horses processing 300000 bushels. It also notes a 1906 price record for a Plymouth Rock hen, a 1896 timber land sale offer, and farm community events including the Landis Farm Bureau appointment, the Friendly Farmers Club, Swiss cheese manufacturing plans, and a fatal barn fire at F H Manahan’s Chester County farm.
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United States
Jacob Adams
Sac County
Odebolt
Iowa
St. Paul Dispatch
Plymouth Rock
Drevenstedt & Hutchins
New York
Boston
Fire and rescues mark twenty five years ago this week
This week marks events from twenty five years ago including a farmhouse blaze at the Nelson Barr farm near Quarryville caused by sparks from an outdoor kitchen pipe while workers are in a potato cellar. The Quarryville Fire Co fought the blaze as a strong wind spread flames over the home.
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Nelson Barr
Mt. Hope Methodist Church
Quarryville
Chester County
Lancaster Farming Readers Seek Arizona Delivery for Daughter
Voice of Lancaster Farms invites readers to write letters, signed and brief. A patron requests sending Lancaster Farming to daughter Dorothy B. Kern in Tucson, Arizona, citing arthritic conditions and enjoyment of county news and recipes.
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Lancaster
Arizona
Honey Brook
Lancaster Farming
Lancaster County
Dorothy B. Kern
Tucson
John A. Kern
Lost, Life, and the Right Path in Christian Thought
The article links Jesus parables of the lost coin sheep and son to warn that addiction and vice leave people out of place. It argues Christians should love the lost, promote prevention, and avoid enabling drinking or narcotics by sharing positive testimonies from public figures and athletes who advocate abstinence.
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Jesus
Christ
H. H. Hill
America
Ezra Benson
Secretary of Agriculture
Kate Newcomb
Reader
Lewis Head
Gil Dodds
Division of Christian Education
National Council of the Churches of Christ
Community Preas Service
Wishing Success For Lincoln University Charter Subscription
Private note from Mrs. Marshall B. Golt enclosed $1.00 for one year's charter subscription to Lincoln University and extends best wishes for its success.
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Lincoln University
Marshall B. Golt
Lincoln University Subscribes New Reader From Bidwell
A reader from Lincoln University submits a $100 payment for a new subscription to Lancaster Farm and papers, naming Arthur H. Bidwell as the sender and expressing confidence the recipient will enjoy the issue.
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Lincoln
University
Lancaster Farmang
Arthur H. Bidwell
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Octoraro
Alfred C. Alspach
Ernest J. Neill
C. Wallace Abel Robert G. Campbell
Robert J. Wiggins
Lancaster Farms
By Jack Reichard
Hood River
Washington
Farm Bureau Commodity Division
Lancaster County Farm Bureau
Christian G.landis
Nottingham
Friendly Farmers’ Club
Eben Crowl
Lester Gallagher
Ida W. Coates
F. H. Manahan
Glen Roy
Michael Reinhart
Bartville
Kirkwood
Reinhart
Max Brook
West Brandywine
Coates‘ville
Federal Farm Board
Congress Land
Hoover
It. J. Stellafus
Mount Vernon Hotel
Eastern Penitentiary
Westbrook Dairy and Produce Co
Edgar Kirk
D. Lester Gallagher
W. Scott Drenner
Lice
H. E. Spence
David M. Gallagher
Walter M. Grubb
Edwin M. Booth
Edward Gable
Lancaster Automobile Club
Voice OF
Lititz
Hopeland Farms
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