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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1925
Page
2
An Ephrata resident reports finding scattered paper money in the Garden Spot area. He collected $55 after spotting a single dollar bill blown along the pavement and seeing additional bills drift by. The Ephrata Review verifies the incident.
The Manheim Realty Company leased the Cigar Factory once run by Eisenlohr Bros and later General Cigar to the G. H. P. Cigar Company. The factory will open soon at full capacity. The G. H. P. Cigar Co is the second largest in the U. S. and makes only the E. Producto brand in various sizes and prices.
John Keener of East Donegal pleaded guilty to feloniously and maliciously setting fire to Howard Yost's home near Marietta. He was fined $100 and costs, and sentenced to two years in prison.
Seed reliability concerns drive tobacco growers to seek dependable seed. The previous season yielded poor maturities and low sprouting rates, forcing farmers to source seeds they can trust for better results.
Lemon Fassnacht residing near Ephrata borough limits chloroformed his 23 year old Shetland pony as it grew feeble with age. The act was performed to end the animal's suffering as its condition worsened.
Paul D. Rohm of Lancaster asked Judge Charles Landis in Quarter Sessions Court to keep him jailed until he can prove honesty. He said the checks were promised to be good once he had funds by May 17. The judge ordered Rohm imprisoned until May 2 after pleading guilty.
Lancaster and York tobacco growers choose 30 organizers to lead a non profit cooperative marketing effort. J C Brubaker urges Lancaster County growers to unite around the committee, refuting rumors of past failures. One committee member hails from York, thirty from Lancaster. The group aims to seed a state wide association later.
A cherry tree in the yard of the Pontz homestead at 14 East Orange Street Lancaster draws attention with massive blooms. Planted 60 years ago by Adam Pontz a noted brick manufacturer it is one of Lancaster's oldest cherry trees. The home is now occupied by Mr and Mrs Walter Pontz, son and daughter in law of the first owner.
Abraham Nathanson and Gabriel Karol, Al lentown partners in the Twentieth Century Silk Company, continue daily business together after Nathanson sued Karol for heavy damages from an August 1923 Philadelphia pike collision near Sellersville. Nathanson, who suffered a fractured skull and broken ribs, testified Karol drove at excess speed, while Karol denied it. The trial has not disrupted their business relationship.
Montgomery resident Squire J. P. Fowler marked his 91st birthday by hiking about 20 miles from his home to Williamsport. Accompanied by his daughter, the annual trek has become a long practiced birthday tradition.
A historical note recalls Sam Patel born 1807 in Rhode Island, famed for perilous leaps into the Passaic and river dives, later killed in 1829 attempting a 125 foot Genesee river jump. The tale mentions a Sunbury gambling house find of $900 by Levi Schrader and a separate incident of a girl named Pearl Troup swallowed rivet. It also reports cabbage root maggot protection using corrosive Sublime advised by N E Hodgkiss of Pennsylvania State College and tar pads for early cabbage crops amid dry spring forecasts.
The Westville York county High School senior class presented Daughters of the Desert a wild west play noted for realism with a wound to Charles Spangler and numerous floor holes on stage. A large audience marveled at the dramatic last act with a dozen shots fired and revolvers loaded.
A witty remark contrasts forgiveness for removing a portrait from its frame with the greater fault of removing the frame itself and leaving the image behind, labeling the act as an unpardonable sin. The quip underscores concerns about integrity and respect for display.
Cyril O'Donnell aged 17 from Phoenixville slipped from a church tower while chasing pigeons. He plunged fifteen feet to a slate roof then slid twenty five feet to the edge before a cornice halted a further fall of thirty five feet. Rescued with an extension ladder, he suffered knee lacerations, cut hands, and shock. A subsequent wall demolition uncovered nine hundred dollars in a wall.
The article extols asbestos as an ancient, nearly indestructible rock suitable for fireproof clothing insulation roofing shingles brake lining and many other products. It traces the rock’s origins from deep earth through volcanic forces and notes its extensive commercial use expanding from almost none in 1870 to hundreds of applications by 1910 and global mining and manufacturing growth by 1920.
A Johns Manville representative spoke on asbestos noting its paradoxical nature. They described asbestos as both rock hard and silky soft, appearing inert yet fireproof, with strands that resist destruction and mass seeming inflammable though unaffected by flame.
The article describes blasting rock with namite to obtain asbestos at one ton per fifteen tons of ore. Fibres are hand sorted, then milled and graded into four types for textiles paper shingles and cement. Roofing shingles shown as fire protective, promoting asbestos as a protective, enduring material.
The article notes that birds feeding together create a warning system via dialogue and silence. When a flock falls silent, others lift heads and scan for threats, showing how quiet alert signals function as a warning just as vocal alarms would in a feeding flock.
A short reflective note by Mircnitlay contrasts living with merely existing, urging fuller, purposeful living and inner cultivation beyond mere survival. It frames life as a scarce, valuable practice rather than routine.
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