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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1919
Page
8
A Brooklyn Eagle humor piece where a young man with a blunt business mindset proposes marriage as a contract. The woman counters with businesslike replies, reveals she is already engaged, and puns about options and first options versus second options. The dialogue contrasts blunt commerce with romance, ending on the notion that business methods don’t govern love.
Readers familiar with Longfellow’s Evangeline may seek the land of Evangeline along the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia Canada. The article notes the area near Wolfville as part of Evangeline country and a destination for visitors.
Grand Pre near Wolfville is famed for the old willows planted by Acadians and known as Evangeline's Willows. Visitors see the willows, the old well, foundations of St Charles Church, and stones marking the priest's house. The trees endure as sturdy landmarks amid green meadows despite historical debates over deportations.
An old Indianapolis News tale recalls a literary applicant rejected by a surgeon for medical reasons. The officer in charge prints a polite note stating lack of merit and no more submissions, then the hopeful midfielder leaves content to have tried his bit for the war effort.
Lititz defeats Manheim 7 to 3 on the Manheim grounds as Miller falters late. Spickler leads Lititz with two doubles and a single while Hauenstein Evang notch triples. Murphy drives in the final run in the ninth as Lititz seizes the late lead and preserves the Hoodoo lore.
Manheim and Lititz played a baseball game with Manheim überzeugen losing to Lititz after a 26 to 8 line score segment. Miller and Lavan pitched for Manheim and Lititz respectively with multiple hits by Miller Spickler Obetz Bransby Higans Hauenstein and Donmeyer. Excursion postponed for Kinport Go employees pushing new date to September 6 due to passenger-coach demand.
French engineers outline four direct and through routes from Paris to distant ports. The Acropolis Express would head east from Italy to Trieste, then through Croatia and Serbia toward Constantinople, while a second Paris to Constantinople line would join Belgrade and the old Berlin Baghdad path. A third plan would reach Odessa via Italy and the Balkans, requiring Danube work, and a fourth envisions massive undersea tunnels and trackage to connect Paris with Dakar via a Gibraltar crossing, Morocco and Senegal to shorten London to Paris to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires travel.
A compact guide notes the importance of a good assortment of separate summer skirts for dainty dress at low cost. It explains that skirts endure two days of wear with a fresh blouse daily, avoiding full dress washing when dresses are one piece, and recommends comfortable width and ground clearance of five to six inches.
Mr and Mrs J Frank Buch and Mrs Mary S G Buch of Lititz members of the National Editorial party are touring the northwest by special train from Winnipeg with banquets luncheons sight seeing autos and entertainment. Winnipeg and Canadian cities host festivities as the party visits wheat fields western towns and mountains. Wheat harvests began in Manitoba in August while Alberta and Saskatchewan suffer drought hurting crops hay is short and cattle sellers appear.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports wheatless rations can rapidly fatten market chicks. Tests show cornmeal and fresh buttermilk yield about one pound gain per 88 pounds of wet feed in 14 days, with distillers grains giving best results.
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