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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1957
Page
11
The Lancaster County Swine Producers Association was organized at a Tuesday night meeting with new directors and officers chosen. The note urges all Lancaster County swine farmers to join, stressing it as a working group to boost knowledge and opportunities for local producers.
An interim Congress report from the Commission on Increased Industrial Use of Agricultural Products details tobacco as a complex product with 26 main types across five classes in the United States. It cites a $5 billion annual consumer market, a $2 billion tax take, rising surpluses, shrinking exports, health concerns, and urgent needs for basic chemical and processing research to improve quality and guide production practices.
Walter Ellis, drunk at Nelson Dyson’s Lancaster County farm near New Providence, slept in a barn and ended with a fractured leg after Daisy the family horse kicked him. James Gimbs, on a Lehigh Valley train 50 years ago, burned his neck when hot cinders set his neckpiece on fire. A Minnesota dairy farmer’s 1907 charity comment criticizes two types of boarders, lazy youths and cows who don’t yield milk. Prices at a Lititz sale for Mrs. Rudy’s effects reach high figures. Armstrong Cork Co buys 30 acres between rail lines to build a plant. The American Table Water Co of Ephrata gains a charter to bottle spring water. A Chicago medical education conference condemns exam incompetence. Taxes and tariffs are debated in “John Bull” style. Florin Water Co tariff hikes affect Mt Joy and East Donegal. 1932 price gaps show eggs and butter costs across states. Lancaster’s highway program details given by J C McCarrell. Washington talk on a $1B bank deposit guarantee bill. Lindbergh baby found after 72 days, skull injuries noted.
An 1854 Fourth Reader fragment reflects on the present and past, noting how ideas and language change. The piece uses classroom tone to compare contemporary life with earlier years, inviting readers to consider progress and continuity.
Devotional reading discusses Genesis 1 27 and Psalm 90 1 12 noting God as planning and resourceful, creation as good yet broken by human freedom, and the path to fellowship through steadfast love. It contrasts true God with mythic gods and warns that rejecting God leads to disaster.
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