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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1921
Page
4
The piece celebrates spring as owners tune up cars plant gardens plan fishing and prepare for outdoor activities from baseball to house cleaning Willie dreads carpet beating and the season brings visions of radishes beans cabbage bass and breezy days with birds and leaves in motion.
The United States Department of Agriculture recommends planting black walnut trees as memorials to soldiers. The wood aided WWI efforts as gunstocks and airplane propellers, while nutshells supplied carbon for gas masks and kernels fed troops. Grafted trees cost about $1.50 but yield easier cracking nuts and better bearing. seedlings are cheaper but riskier. The Record urges spring planting in grounds, arguing fifty nut trees beat fifty shade trees for public benefit.
The Lancaster Intelligence notes pastors from First Presbyterian and Olivet Baptist support newspaper advertising as a tool to connect religion with common life. It cites Pittsburgh's Oakland Methodist Church where full seating and many late arrivals followed liberal advertising, with pastor Emory Beetham stating that consistent follow up makes advertising pay.
The speaker vows to continue an aggressive advertising plan to fill the church with attendees. He notes that the past two weeks have proven effective and predicts the need for extra seating as plain Gospel preaching attracts the "everyday man" without relying on special attractions.
The piece contrasts weekly town papers with large city society pages. It mocks the Four Hundred and their party clothes while praising plain farmer news like barn paintings as community improvement. The author links such society coverage to bolshevism concerns and defends honest local readers.
The Record explains newspaper economics and the need to charge for space and notices. It argues printing costs require revenue, warns against free notices, and stresses white space, job work, and subscriptions as essential profits to keep the paper viable.
A collection of quips notes and witticisms about thinking getting up steam and the tired feeling after courting wealth and a rich father in law. It pokes fun at manners language and social pretensions with sharp asides and light satire.
Multiple notices report deaths and funerals in Lititz and surrounding communities. Franklin McKinney of Lititz died at 5 a m Monday age 75 of pneumonia with services at St Pauls Lutheran and Machpelah Cemetery. Lucinda Reidenbach is noted as his late wife. Other obituaries, including Mrs. Benjamin S Habecker of Canajoharie and John C Nye of Strasburg, list survivors and funeral arrangements. Sarah F Mohn of Neffsville died after a stroke at 75 with services at the Brethren Home and East Petersburg Reformed cemetery burial. other bereaved families include Habecker, Shultz, and Lorah relatives.
Jacob M. Kissinger died at St Josephs Hospital Lancaster after an operation at 9 80 o clock aged 55. He lived in Lancaster ten years and belonged to Lititz United Evangelical church and I O G A M of Lititz. Survived by wife and eight children and several siblings. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm from J Fred Fisher Sons parlors Cedar Lawn cemetery. Solomon Becker died at St Josephs Hospital Monday afternoon pneumonia aged 83 after two weeks as a patient. Station Agent Harold B Brubaker named Station Agent at Mill Way after serving at Denver.
Mr John Krambine moved to 151 West Orange Street Lititz on Friday. Mr I B Koebler will move into the vacated house Thursday. Mrs Sallie Kofroth was on the sick list last week. Mr and Mrs E L Yocum visited Yocum's mother at Brickerville Sunday. Clayton Nesleroth and family of Fruitville visited Mr and Mrs S K Bomberger. Sunday guests at the Bomberger home included H Reist Landis and daughter Hila Lititz Henry L Risser and daughter Yammer Creek, Emlen Landis, P K Bomberger and daughter, Cyrus Bomberger and family, I W Singer, Paul Miller. Mrs Abram Balmer visited relatives at Reading last week. P K Bomberger attended Elizabethtown insurance meeting. Mrs Bomberger and daughter Lizzie visited friends at Salunga Monday. Alma Risser of Hammer Creek church visited J W Singer. Eli Yocum road supervisor of Penn township began road work Tuesday.
Pittsburgh resident Mr William Norton visited Mrs Flora Kline on Sunday along with several couples from Willow Street Heim Manheim Hallville Eph rata Brunnerville and Brownstown. The gatherings included Mr and Mrs Phares Kreider Isaac Stauffer Israel Huber Florence Bomberger David Meily Lizzie Schaeffer Edwin Enek Amos Swart Martin Musser Milton Blantz Jacob Kittle William Mease and others.
The Westerners photoplay at Paramount Theatre shows a buckboard and two horses plunging down a cliff. Kate the trick horse saves the team and buckboard after a near miss, with trainers Joe Flores Curley Eagles guiding the stunt. The horse's brink work nearly caused delay before a successful take.
The article notes steep rises in women’s hair prices over the past year with trade concentrated in continental Europe. It mentions peasant girls in France, Belgium and Italy selling hair at regular intervals to dealers. Westy hair from fair and black varieties is sold to dealers, while golden hair is shipped to Scandinavians.
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