Landisville school addition costs rise to 18000
A school building expansion at Landisville cost 18000 dollars. The high school room doubles as a community meeting space, reflecting shared local use.
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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
2
A school building expansion at Landisville cost 18000 dollars. The high school room doubles as a community meeting space, reflecting shared local use.
A group of ambulance crews carried wounded under fire to safety near No Man's Land. President Poincare awarded gold wrist watches to the heroic youths. A Berks County couple must repeat their wedding to make it legal after a late license. Reverend Paul Schearrer, recently ordained, shares his Syria Palestine service and peril.
The Ural range holds rich ore mountains Blagodat Magnitnaya and Vysokaya with 50 to 70 percent iron. In 1912 the Ural deposits produced 1,882,900 tons of iron ore, part of Russia’s 9,692,300 ton total. Russia also has silver copper lead and zinc ores but mining lags behind demand.
An American missionary reports the death of Bishop Brewer in a distant Montana mountain district. A longtime local woman hoisted a flag at half mast over a little schoolhouse for over a month to honor him, though she did not belong to his church.
Shortage of structural steel leads to roof trusses built from timber encased in cement at a Texas oil refinery. The trusses are wrapped with waterproof paper and expanded metal, then cement mortar and a monolithic slab are added. A final hot asphalt coat finishes the surface.
The Rathenau plan aimed to secure raw materials for war by seizing Belgian and occupied territory and destroying subject industries. It details orders to stop Belgian exports, seize machinery and goods, and even draft horses, draining wealth and resources. The report cites Brand Whitlock and notes further chapters on pillage, arson, and wartime destruction.
George W. Eardman of Millersburg Pennsylvania, a leading livestock commission dealer, credits Tanlac with curing his rheumatic pains after years of weather-related ache. He praises the medicine as life changing and urges others with rheumatism to try it. Tanlac is being introduced locally by Druggist L. N. Moyer.
A dialogue humorously questions why a friend claimed immunity for war service while busy with "prostration from war service" and "shock oysters". The punchline lies in misheard duties and the man’s shell shock diagnosis, highlighting wartime strain with a playful twist.
The oldest women s college sorority is Alpha Delta Pi founded at Wesleyan female college in 1851.
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