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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1921
Page
6
William A. Radford outlines modern farm home design emphasizing sun and sleeping porches, airy rooms, and efficient layouts. He notes shifts from old to new features, praises air and health benefits, and details a two story plan with a small 10 by 16 foot kitchen, a wash room, and five bedrooms plus a large sleeping porch on the second floor.
A large screened sun porch on the main floor serves as a family recreation center with winter glazing potential. The front porch spans the house with a porterochere roof extension and a wide entry leading to a bright living room with a grand fireplace and bay lit dining room. The home emphasizes ample light, ventilation, and closet space, reflecting farm family standards for comfort and harmony.
A report warns typhus fever is spreading in Poland and Galicia due to overcrowding and poor housing. Transmission is via body lice, with disinfection of clothing as the key remedy. The piece notes high mortality among medical staff and urges immediate preventive actions. It also mentions a regional funeral custom in the mountains of the South where preaching accompanies burials.
Geneva once faced a brutal siege as Duke of Savoy and Spanish mercenaries attacked at night. Some attackers entered but none escaped. captors were beheaded or killed. A Geneva Bible and the Livre des Anglais record civic resolve and warnings to treat foreigners kindly. Duke Charles II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel funded much of Geneva’s beauty after settling there, with a four million dollar legacy used for quays and a Brunswijk monument.
Lady Flamiton born to a blacksmith and a cook rose to fame in the late 18th century. She befriended Naples royalty and British ambassadors, began as Hmma Lyon, and used beauty and wit to wield influence. At sixteen she saved a schoolfellow from conscription by negotiating with Captain Payne, earning his costly gratitude.
The piece notes that checkers or drafts dates back to ancient Egypt along the Nile about sixteen hundred years before Christ and was later refined by the Greeks. It cites Joshua Sturges's 1800 guide as the enduring authority on modern checkers rules.
The piece notes Mark Twain as a pioneer user of the typewriter and cites a December 9 1874 letter to W D Howells about learning to type. Twain jokes about thick fingers, practicing to hit keys, and misplacing letters and punctuation as he pursues mastering the machine. The item appears in a record listing priced at $1.50 per year.
Mignon plans a supreme sacrifice in a Sahara desert tale as a sandstorm roars across the dunes. Louise Glaum shines as a dramatic star in Sahara, a Hodkinson picture guided by C Gardener Sullivan with Alien Owen supervising. See it Tuesday at the Paramount Theatre. A taxidermist recalls an eagle versus groundhog battle near Eden Township highlighting nature’s chase in a dramatic wildlife vignette. Read the Record, $1.50 a year.
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