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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1919
Page
6
An April public health notice argues milk is 100 percent efficient nourishment with no waste and should replace beer alcohol in society. It touts milk as liquid meat, a complete food supporting growth, and predicts a new era where milk usage expands while whisky production declines amid pending law changes.
John The NOP ebriaved by TRIBAL Y actively enga World as a coal and lumber merchant since 1848. He is a director of the Jiamiitim Water Company and the Conestoga Traction Company.
In Lehigh county, the Finanuel Evangelical Church congregation waited past 10 o'clock on Sunday as elders found Pastor Rev. BW Luckenbill at the parsonage enjoying a hearty breakfast. A clock check showed he had set the clock back by mistake, misunderstanding daylight saving time.
Plans to modernize LLAGABHTN Town College envision dormitories for hundreds of students a new science building and a central heating plant. A 400000 fundraising campaign supports erecting and equipping additional Pecasary school buildings as canvassers work. About one hundred students are enrolled now.
The vanishing local blacksmith trade concerns residents as shops close and retirees outnumber new workers. Farmers stock forges and anvils to self fix gear while horses go unfitted. Ed ward s of Unicorn and Sam Denny of Oak Til discuss impacts as shops convert to other uses.
The American Salvation Army plans a national campaign during the week of May 1926 aiming to raise 12 million for reconstruction and relief across the country. Frank R. McClain, former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor, will chair efforts in Pennsylvania with regional directors to be set in Lancaster. The drive focuses on employment for working women, housing, and standard rescue and relief work, with funds spent in communities that contribute.
Drilling at Leaman Place shows oil seepage and a natural gas breakthrough through rock, with TLC President Wartzell signaling strong indications of a down‑hole find. He cautions against overstatement but notes promising prospects for paying quantities.
The Ghiesxies quarries near Bl Baker will soon be a thing of the past as workers adopt improvements made years ago and shift to other company-operated quarries elsewhere.
Sergeant John T. Matthes, late of Company A, 69th Infantry, Tenth National Army Division, discharged January 31, 1919, with units under General Leonard Wood. His grandfather, Private John Lir Matthew, discharged January 31, 1866 from Company G, 196u Pennsylvania Volunteers, suggests a coinci dent in dates and similar discharge forms across generations. The two men, from the same log house, both returned home to Brickerville amid shared family heirloom remembrance.
In a dim tale from a village occupied by British troops, two soldiers uncover a farmer using two gray horses for morning plowing and two blacks for afternoon teams as a covert signal to German artillery. Their stakeout reveals a telephone link to an estaminet and a spy network. the road’s shelling schedule adjusts with horse changes, and the farmer is arrested and executed after confession.
A new air crew telephonic device allows pilot and observer or passenger to talk clearly. A headset helmet houses a resolver and transmitter, with wiring linking two helmets. The design sits snugly on the wearer's head and uses elastics to hold a microphone near the lips, reducing motor noise.
A absent minded professor at a theological seminary used four pairs of his wife's scissors as a bookmark. After a failed search by both partners, the next day the professor revealed the same scissors in his book and triumphantly proclaimed they were found.
A fragmentary remembrance in a late Penny Press style honors Robert Burns born in Ayrshire Scotland. It lauds his poverty, lasting fame, and poems that crossed borders, noting human frailty yet insisting genius elevates beyond saintliness. The piece cites lines from Hamlet and laments the limits of worldly judgment.
London Answers notes vast postwar plans including a 72 mile bridge from Wolke Stone to Cane Gris Nez and a transatlantic oil pipeline. It highlights America’s long pipe lines, and recalls the Baku to Batum line restored after the war, 55 miles long with a 400 million gallon annual capacity.
Cornelia Cocke, aged eighty one, under the Desert Land Act, becomes owner of a property eight miles east of Mojave. The government demands development work, but she proved residence on the claim and did much of the new work herself. She says desert life improved her health.
A brisk band of gipsies is described as increasingly modern, traveling by automobile in Indiana, cooking on kerosene stoves, and using electric washing machines. For five hundred years they have balanced vagabond identity with evolving customs, possibly forecasting future practices as they swap horses for second hand cars.
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