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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1923
Page
2
The readable text includes phrases in multiple languages and references to friends foes war and a quote attributed to Schiller. It mentions Wes Dear as a friend and hints at a dated or coded message. No clear event or outcome is identified.
A collection of home cooking tips including baked potatoes with bacon rolls, Savory Casserole of Mutton with currant jelly and olives, Chicken and Spinach Soup with whipped cream, Summer Squash fried in an omelet pan, and lettuce and celery noted as easy to digest with proper pressing.
The passage describes antique valentine cards, often cut from paper with woven heart designs and handwritten verses. It notes a revival of English valentines once common in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and mentions colorful handmade shapes and blank spaces for personal verses.
State College reports disease free potato seed boosts yield by a third or more and lowers production costs. County Agents offer seed sources. Garden advice covers seed bed prep with manure, phosphate, and planting rates. Seed coating improves germination for hard seeds and sweet clover. Milk quality notes total solids and consumer value. Poultry tip advises exercise and green feed. epsom salts dose given for 100 birds.
Farmers Trust Company of Carlisle demands payment on a 250000 mortgage from the Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company. Receivers H A Albin and Walter C Graeff of Lebanon report no funds to satisfy the mortgage, indicating likely sale of the line from Ephrata to Lebanon and a freeze out for original investors.
In Bethlehem Mrs. Helen Gross aged 24 wife of Harry Gross left for an unknown destination after withdrawing an estimated 9500 dollars from a local bank. She left a note for her husband saying she was leaving and that he could dispose of the property as he sees fit. At Kirk's Mills Israel Steele suffers blood poisoning. His daughter Mrs. Mary Griest and son Horace have diphtheria and Ralph, 13, died recently. Anthracite Production Co of Shanks Ferry plans to resume coal dredging on the Susquehanna River after winter storage of its outfit.
The poem by Will Carleton depicts a village wake for the long seen country doctor. Soldiers, pews crowded, and a crowd mourns as death claims the beloved physician who served through sickness and care, leaving a lasting rural landmark.
A reflective line urges living each set as if it were your last, warning vain fadetes and urging rest from needless fears. The quote credits Moore Anrefins as its author.
The piece discusses Magenta as an Italian city name before its color designation and traces the red aniline dye origin to the Haitian city related to vivid color. It references battles and historical confusion about places and events, noting the color's link to the city name and its global spread.
New York tribes bring roots to Dr. Pierce's laboratory for remedies claimed reliable for over 54 years. Natere’s healing herbs form Golden Medical Discoveries, touted as a blood tonic and cure for coughs, with a trial offer of ten cents for purchase from Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo.
An aged advertisement promotes Halls Catarrhit Medicine as a beta product used to treat CATARRAL symptoms. It claims a local application ointment and a tonic that acts through the blood to reduce inflammation. Sold by FL J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
Mrs Amelia Hahn Nichols of Columbia seeks her daughter Catherine Fiana now about 21 years old who she has not seen since she was two after a separation from Catherine's father James Kahn. The child was placed by the father in the Home for the Friendless in Reading. Catherine was about three when placed and the mother does not know the adoptive family's name.
Katherine Horning of Bowmansville now at Millersville Normal School wins a pure bred Guernsey calf in an essay contest on Why Dad Should Own Pure Breds. Calf loaned by A A Thompson of Uniontown Pa, noted Guernsey breeder.
A telegram to Will Leber of Ephrata reports a train wreck killed a carload of Kansas horses bound for public sale in Ephrata on Monday, forcing cancellation of the sale.
Two elderly veterans, a woodman and a distiller, recalled past pay and conditions. The woodman earned 271/2 cents a cord and 75 cents a day at a coal pit, working long hours, while bacon cost 5 cents a pound and whisky 12 cents a quart. The distiller said 60 cents a day, with whisky free to drink, priced at 20 cents a gallon wholesale. They joked that if paid current wages they would be millionaires.
Assemblyman E. B. Posey returned from Harrisburg saying he voted against the Pinchot dry bill and would oppose enforcement measures seen as endorsing the Walstead act. He noted home production of cider and wine is legal only for private use, with Volstead limits. selling it remains illegal. He cited reader letters urging higher taxes and mentioned bills to raise automobile license fees.
A forest fire started by an engine on the Pennsylvania railroad burned fifty acres of woodland and grass near Mount Gretna between Cold Spring and the rifle range. Fires burned at six spots along the railroad but were controlled by local residents with no property damage. Loss is estimated at about $1500.
A fragmentary reflection on the difficulty of knowing a woman’s mind. The speaker notes the challenge of reading inner thoughts, likening it to tracing prints on water or prints of fishes’ feet, with a literary aside attributed to L. Adams Beck.
Lan caster stock yards owner PL R R Go plans a 50000 dollar upgrade including a 28000 dollar hog and sheep barn, indicating no early removal of yards though a big passenger station was once anticipated. Separately, owls hunt sparrows at night, with owls commonly feeding in pine or cedar branches and leaving feathers and hair beneath roosts.
The article notes St Valentine’s Day and anonymous valentines have waned in popularity. It traces the custom back to ancient times and mentions Shakespeare, Quaker writers, and Syd Bente who died in the 1400s. It cites Charles, Duke of Orléans as an early writer of valentines and quotes Drayton warning about winter give way to love. It also questions St Valentine’s direct link to the tradition.
An old-time anecdote relates a colored woman joking with a white neighbor about making gingerbread. The recipe mentions handfuls of wheat, pine salt, eggs, baking powder, sugar, ginger and spices, a cup of rich cream, butter, and milk warmed water, with humorous mispronunciations and playful dialogue.
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