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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1956
Page
6
Six year old Leon Brubaker of R3 Lititz fell while playing and broke his arm. He was admitted to Lancaster General Hospital as a surgical patient.
Mr and Mrs Ek J Brosius Quarryville Ri held a public sale with auctioneer Kersey Bradley. Prices ranged from 50 cents to 175 for violets and 350 for gl oxidized items with items including an upright piano at 52 and a wardrobe at 12 50.
A compiled schedule of estate and real estate sales across Elizabethtown and surrounding towns from May 4 to May 26. Entries list sellers such as Walter Dupes Maurice E Stauffer Lizzie Stoltzfus estate Annie Walters Estate and more, with locations on Bainbridge Elizabethtown Road Telegraphic horse notes and times. Antique items and household goods feature prominently alongside real estate listings.
William Lessey of Ephrata purchased a 6.2 acre wooded tract in the William E Gearhart public sale for 260 dollars. Auctioneer H H Leach of Denver presided. The woodlands lay between Brickerville and Schaefferstown. Other items fetched 11 to 12 dollars for six old German locks and varied prices for a wood chest, Civil War revolver, Dutch design plate, kitchen vase, balloon back rocker, and leather powder flask.
Dividends in the United States increased by 13 percent in 1955 reaching a new high. The rise reflects broader corporate earnings and investor returns amid postwar economic expansion.
The Edna E Keith sale between Reinholds and Denver featured a tractor at 620 dollars, a two wheeled trailer at 100, a high sink at 22, a low sink at 12, Guineas at 2 each, and chickens at 1.95. Auctioneer Frank Snyder presided.
The Toronto Star notes a Hungarian peach described as tasting like almond. If it replaces the ordinary peach, speculation suggests horticulturalists may need to breed almonds with peach-like flavors.
A quotation from Olin Miller in the Atlantic Journal condemns killings for trivial reasons. It argues that people should not kill without a fair adequate motive, reflecting midcentury moral caution on violence.
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