Fair schedule conflict belies dairy show turnout across counties
Dairy men faced a chaotic week as two county fairs and two major state shows ran simultaneously. Dairy cattle judging occurred at Quarryville and animals rushed to Harrisburg for the Junior Dairy Show. Some exhibitors skipped Elizabethtown due to the State Black and White Show. The public missed top Holsteins and a local exhibitor lamented showing at the state event over a home display. The article urges future scheduling to avoid conflicts so cattle can rest and perform well at both local and state events.
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Quarryville
Harrisburg
Elizabethtown
Lancaster Farming
Springlike Revival Amid Lancaster County Fields
In Lancaster County the past week dry and rains revived the landscape making fields look spring like and lifting residents’ moods. The late season greening offers a bright memory against upcoming dull winter days.
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Lancaster County
Pennsylvania Farm Income Gains Amid Crops Boost
Livestock cash receipts fall while crops rise, yielding a net $400000 increase in Pennsylvania current cash farm income to about $419.143 million for the year to date, from $414.894 million a year earlier. Nationally, realized net farm income in Q3 may exceed 1956 by about half a billion dollars, with prices up 3 percent and marketings up 1 percent.
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Pennsylvania
Agricultural Marketing Service
USDA
Fifty years ago in Lancaster: hangings and town lore
Fifty years ago this week four men were hanged in the Lancaster jail yard in a rare mass execution following 1906 killings linked to the Mollie Maguire era. The piece recounts the 1907 case of Celinoe Delero Carlin and Rodelli, notes a passenger Orlando Toland’s odd claims and death, and covers other local incidents including a fatal heart paraly sis tale, a county fair closing, a barn fire, and agricultural statistics from Keystone Cow Testing.
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Lancaster
Expiore
Pennsylvania
Mollie Maguire
Joseph Celinoe
Anthony Delero
Stephano Carlin
Siverio Rodelli
Plato Albamese
Sherif
Harry G. Wittmer
Washington Boro
Jacob Walk
Patriotism in Action Sermon on Nehemiah and Duty
A September 29 1957 lesson argues there is no closed season for patriotism. It highlights Nehemiah as a model patriot who inspires action, condemns flag display as vanity, and stresses religion as a foundation for civic duty and national service.
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Washington
Dr. Foreman
America
Jerusalem
Nehemiah
David
Scipio
Henry V
George Washington
Syngman Rhee
God
Hitler
Division of Christian Education
Council of the Churches of Christ
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Lancaster Phone Express
Alfred C. Alspach
Robert E. Best
Robert G. Campbell
Robert J. Wiggins
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BY Jack Reichard
Lunatic
Roosevelt
Orlando Toland
Oxford
Ala
Theodore Roosevelt
John D Rockefeller
Hackensack
Secret Service
Oyster Bay
Toland
Alabama
Minnesota
Rockefeller
New York
West Shore
Amos Clark
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Clark
Physis
West Lampeter Community Fair Assn
Jacob Rutter
New Holland
Intercourse
West Lampeter
Rosenbergers
Harmony Boys Clee Club
Ephrata
American Legion
E A Lit
George T Fitz
M W. Schweitzer
E M. Rhoad
Pequea Valley
Willow Street
Chester Huber
Lampeter Fire Co
Chester County
John A Barkley
Cochranville
Theo Joss
Atglen
Parkesburg
K.C.T.A
C. R. Gearhart
Pennsylvania State College Dairy Extension Service
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