Lititz News Snapshot From 1861 Records
Records note relocation of The Record to the second floor near Springs Hotel and a storm that destroyed a barn on Andrew Hummer’s Mt Hope farm. Local items include Lititz Bretzel Bakery output, a hatched chick from a bought egg, street guttering agitation, a mud accident, Lititz Plow Factory demand, and various town happenings from August 1861.
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Record
Springs Hotel
Andrew Hummer
Mt. Hope
Lititz Bretzel
Spruce Street
Lititz
German song books shaped My Country, Tis of Thee origin
The passage notes that Dr and F Smith, while students at Andover in 1831-32, owned two German song books and adapted God Save the King into a republican patriotic tune, influencing the lyrics.
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Dr & F. Smith
Andover
Doctor Smith
King
The We In Our Timepiece Remains ADeadline Tale
A town columnist laments missing a deadline and being fired then saved by a reader's call. The piece traces how time and a grandfather clock figure in life and writing, noting a shift from I to we and fearing a future muddle of self as the column extends beyond its space. The author promises to catch up next week.
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Citien
Main Street
Bands on Radio 4 to air six military concerts
Next week listeners can hear six programs of band music by the Marine Band the U S Navy Band and the U S Army Band over six evenings. Navy Band performs August 10 and 11 Marine Band August 12 and 18 and Army Band August 14 and 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Marine Band
U. S. Navy Band
U. S. Army Band
Navy Band
Army Band
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van Dyk
Libby
Hellman
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Wisconsin
N.B. C
Turkish Towel Sale
Zartmans’ Store
Pfautz Bros
Judge
J. B. Kennedy
Youngstown
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Harry Grazer
Thomas Keller
Nazareth
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Jack Holt
Mary Astor
Ken Maynard
Leslie Howard
Conchita Montenegro
Man
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Nancy Carroll
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Angel
Lowell Sherman
Irene Dunne
Goodyear
Roy G. Myers
Lititz Springs
Broad & Marion Sts
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Wolff
Locust
New Streets
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Kodak
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Carl B.risser
GRUBE
Merion
Blue Mountains
Kellogg’s
del Monte
Medford
Jd C
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