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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1878
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment presents jumbled phrases and scattered words. Readable items include sporadic references to spring, seasons, and mundane elements, offering no clear event, person, or organization. The piece reads as garbled lines with no coherent narrative or reportable facts.
A melodramatic village romance unfolds at Horton where Harry Barton and Annie Weston vow love under a willow by Ashpool. After years apart and a shipwreck, a stranger returns as Harry, reuniting with Annie and her father, while a modern essay on penny wise and pound foolish concludes.
The practice of employing professional dialogs in Parisian theatres persists. Some actors laugh in wing places during scenes, then rejoin the main action, affecting performance flow and audience perception.
An article notes the Salt River in Arizona carries brackish water due to inputs from the Gila and a high salt content in the valley. It describes the river’s rapid flow, depth, and potential for large scale salt production by diverting brine to basins and evaporating ponds.
The United States Consul at Buenos Ayres reports widespread labor hardship. He cautions Americans not to seek better conditions there, noting general unemployment, shrinking skilled jobs, and many arriving workers unable to earn a livelihood or return home without funds.
Emphasizes the importance of prudent practice in retail including location choice and avoiding excessive rent. Advises limiting stock to thirty days trade, selling for cash or short credit, insisting on prompt settlements, insuring no excessive risk, and keeping stock attractive and well labeled.
The text argues prejudice is more dangerous because it can adapt to all minds. It likens prejudice to a spider weaving cob webs in any empty mind, suggesting it fills and inhabits thoughts regardless of their nature or level of reasoning.
A miscellany notes high level data on trade, population, and industry, plus curious vignettes from the United States and abroad. It cites Tyler era franking, wheat crop values, iron production, and tobacco consumption in Paris, with odd anecdotes from Steubenville and San Francisco society.
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