Farm Issue Grows as Election Nears and Campaigns Pivot
The piece outlines Eisenhower and Ezra Taft Benson’s Republican agricultural plan including price supports, farm credit, soil and water conservation, rural development, disaster aid, and rural electrification. It cites Adlai Stevenson accusing soil bank mismanagement and notes politicians debating farm policy amid campaign rhetoric.
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Eisenhower
Ezra Taft Benson
Abe Lincoln
Stevenson
Benson
Soil Bank
Longer lower more horsepower in a competitive auto season
The auto industry plans more advanced styling for 1957 with teaser ads and hints of new chassis or wheels. Dealers shift from price focus and may raise prices slightly, leaving owners of 1955 and 1956 models to wonder how outdated they may feel tomorrow.
50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms
Fifty years ago loneliness in farm life was noted as a chief objection yet an agricultural writer argued industrious farmers and families found time for company and reading. The piece recalls weather, free chestnuts for students, tomato yields, a poultry theft, a house fire arson case, a scalded child, tobacco prices, and an arson confession in Lancaster County.
Creation Lesson on Genesis and the first verse
A 1956 sermon discusses Genesis Creation as a purposeful act by God not a random event. It argues that universal laws reveal the will of God and that science advances by “thinking God’s thoughts after him.” The piece frames human misuse of creation as a cause of trouble and emphasizes divine good in creation.
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God
St. Thomas Aquinas
National Council of the Churches of CH
Com
U.67
A. B. Press Service
Mrs J Frank Foster Survives Fall Into Well
In Cobra Maryland Mrs J Frank Foster fell through rotten kitchen well joists into three feet of water. Alone she remained in the water until her son Gordon and neighbors rescued her with a rope and flashlight. She suffered bruises a sprained ankle and wet clothes. October 1931 Lancaster County Tobac.
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Cobra
J. Frank Foster
Gordon
Penn State Dairy Team Places Fourth at Eastern States
The Penn State dairy cattle judging team finished fourth at the Eastern States Exposition on Sept. 17, trailing Ohio State, Cornell, Massachusetts. Team members Earl Berger, Neil Bowen, Gordon Miller, with alternate Thomas Kelly, earned placings across Brown Swiss, Guernseys, Jerseys, Ayrshires and were coached by William Cloninger. Bowen won top honors in Guernseys and Jerseys events, receiving a silver pitcher and a Jersey cow model.
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Pennsylvania State University
Ohio State
Cornell
Massachusetts
Penn State
Earl &. Berger
Lehighton
Neil L. Bowen
Wellsboro
Gordon J. Miller
Clarks Summit
Thomas W. Kelly
Highty-Four
Bowen
Adoption brings 11 children to Chicago family
Mrs Elizabeth J Duhig aged 32 adopted 11 children from her husband Martin Duhigs first marriage to Mrs June Duhig who died 14 months earlier. The present Mrs Duhig's first husband George Caley died in 1953. they had no children.
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Chicago
Elizabeth J. Duhig
Martin Duhig
Duhig
June Duhig
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T. Z Ewing
J. M. Tosh
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Campbell
W. G. Sweigart
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Puseyville
Lancaster County Tobacco Growers’ Association
Grand Army Hall
John H. Keener
Manor Township
Christian Dietrich
Edward Fenster
Macher
Kenneth J. Foreman
Dr. Foreman
Lancaster County Tobac
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