Industry Ad Expert Urges Better Goods to Lift Sluggish Sales
Ovid Riso of Philco International urges manufacturers to improve product value and quality rather than rely on marketing tricks. He criticizes high prices, weak durability, and misleading packaging while predicting a value driven recession ending only when firms offer decent quality at fair prices. He notes agriculture benefiting from better farm inputs amid a past farm recession.
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Adman
Riso
Floods Overwhelm Pennsylvania Rail and Roads
Heavy rains flood multiple cities in Pennsylvania with dam breaches and washed-out tracks. Wilkes Barre’s Baltimore dam fails, Stroudsburg glass works and homes flood, and Lehigh River rises. Rail lines including East Penn and Pennsylvania Railroad suffer washouts. crops ruined across Lancaster York and Chester counties. Rescue crews aid stranded workers as water roars through Allentown and Shamrock.
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Pennsylvania
Wilkes Barre
Baltimore
Delaware and Hudson Co
Scranton
Stroudsburg
Reading
Macungie
East Penn
Paxton Creek
Harrisburg
Susquehanna
Allentown
Lehigh
East Penn Railroad
Shamrock
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Rockdale
Nonnemaker & Snelback
Lancaster
York
Chester
Lancaster and
Quarryville
Pennsylvania Railroad
50 Years Ago in Lancaster County Highlights
A Stevens pair saved a duck from a snapping turtle in the Cocalico Creek area near Wabash. Apiarist Jacob Shank near Elizabethtown sold over two tons of honey from 142 hives, famed as the Fair Italian. The 1908 cherry crop was large with trees unpicked in places. Oxford market train carried 7250 pounds of creamery butter to Philadelphia. June 21, 1908, was a hot day with 73 F at 9 AM, 91 at noon, 94 at 3 PM, and 82 at 7 PM.
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William H. Frankhouser
Stevens
Lancaster County
Cocalico
Wabash
Frankhouser
David Hornburger
Lancaster Co
Jacob Shank
Elizabethtown
Shank
Lancaster
Lancaster, Oxford and Southern
Oxford
Philadelphia
United States
Lancaster Farming title page details and contact
Lancaster Farming weekly notes publisher Alfred C Alspach editor Robert E Best and staff roles. Established November 4 1955 and published every Friday by Octoraro Newspapers Quarryville PA with contact phone numbers. Subscription rates listed and postal entry classification noted.
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Lancaster County
Alfred C. Alspach
Robert E Best
Robert G. Campbell
Robert J. Wiggins
Octoraro
Quarryville
Lancaster, Express
Quaryville
Doc Reilly herb doctor dies after wandering life in Pa
Thomas P. McGrath known as Doc Reilly died at Wernersville State Hospital in his 76th year after a life of herb medicines and travel across eastern Pennsylvania. Born in West Chester he survived by two sisters in New Jersey.
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Thomas P. McGrath
Doc Reilly
Pennsylvania
Wernersville State Hospital
McGrath
West Chester
New Jersey
Who Are Strong Lesson for June 22 1958
The lesson argues true strength lies in inner power and devotion to God rather than physical might. It contrasts Samson, Gideon, and Paul, urging that real strength comes from using gifts for justice and God. The piece cites biblical figures and emphasizes spiritual over muscular prowess.
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Samson
Times
God
Paul
Roman Empire
Division of Christian Education
National Council of the Churches of Christ In the
USA
Community Press Service
Ventilate Barns and Fence Gates in Farm Practices
Advice on barn ventilation cross flow by opening windows and doors for months ahead. Suggestions against burlap shading, caution with fertilizer near seeds, cleaning grain bins, using DDT, drying grain with fans, and installing cattle guards to avoid gate openings. Plans available at Extension Office.
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Ovid Riso
Philco International Corp
BY Jack Reichard
Lancaster Farming
Mls.t.c
Millersville State Teachers College
Presbyterian
Masonic
William T. Snodgrass
Los Angeles
Cahutt
Snodgrass
Dr. Foreman
Audreds
Power of God
Jesus
Saint Paul
Old
Israel
Jerubbaal
Gideon
I Peter
By Max Smith
Max Smith
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