Much Maligned Grosbeak Aids Farm Insect Control
A farmers bulletin by Secretary Wilson touts grosbeaks as allies against crop pests. Seven finch species visit agricultural regions and eat harmful insects, including Colorado potato beetle and cankerworms, with several varieties protecting wheat, cotton, and fruit crops. The piece also notes claims of grain sprouting damage are unfounded and urges farmers to protect these birds. A separate column condemns grain speculation as a curse, labeling traders and speculators as quacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Kansas
Tennessee
Colorado
Mexico
California
Arizona
Iowa
Ontario
Atlantic
North Dakota
Nebraska
United States
Texas
New Mexico
Bulletin
A Simple Homemade Wire Stretcher and Herbs Advice
A simple three foot wood lever with an iron plate forms a handy homemade wire stretcher that tightens wire for stapling. Also notes on growing and harvesting herbs, with annual seeds sown early, perennials planted for long term use, soil preparation, and harvesting leaves on dry days to preserve color and fragrance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange Judd
The Dairyman Who Reads
A brief editorial urging modern methods in dairying highlights reading as essential to success. It warns that relying on ancestral practices keeps dairymen behind and notes benefits from better sires, efficient feeding, and improved sanitary conditions to boost butter output.
A Cinch Against Starvation Promises and Famine Fears
An old editorial notes that about thirty days separate the average city wage earner from hunger while most farmers could extend the period before starvation longer, framing a stark rural urban divide.
Dairy Doings on Cow Care and Buttermilk Cheese
A guide to humane cow management, stressing stable housing, consistent milking, and water supply. It notes avoid cold winds and flies, and warns against unfamiliar milkers. The piece also details making buttermilk cheese from surplus fluids, including heating steps, draining, salting, and aging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J T. Sammis
Wisconsin Experimental Station
Puzzle and Strawberries and Pianos in an Era
A collage of 1920s era snippets: elevator chatter about reporters, old time strawberries cultivation noted by a bishop in Holborn before Shakespeare, the pianoforte’s evolution from clavichord and harpsichord with early inventors named, money’s ancient uses and coinage origins, a quip about male to female demographics, white specks in butter, and a jokes miscue about cooking eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely
Hatton Garden
Duke of Gloucester
Holborn
London Standard
Scipione Maffel
Bartolommeo Christofori
Marins
France
Schroter
Germany
Marius
Frederica
Saxony
England
United States
John Isaac Hawkins
Detroit Prep Press
Lititz Organization Meeting Schedule Listings
A listing of local organizations in Lititz detailing meeting times and venues. Groups include Knights of Malta Moravian chapter in Rudy's Hall, Lititz Lodge of POs, Garfield Castle, Morning Star Temple Ladies of the G E, Washington Camp, Stevene Post G R, Lititz Abating Council, Lititz Borough Council, Lititz School Board, Lititz Hose Company, Warwick School Board, Litita Agricultural Mutual Insurance, Litita M C A rooms, Ww CT U, Loyal Temperance Legion, and F of A Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lititz Castle
O. K
M.C. Aeace Eye
Rudy's Hall
Lititz Lodge
K. of P
Era
Rudys Hall
Garfield Castle
G._E
Star’ Temple
Ladies of the
G. E
Rudy's
Washington Camp
A. of Rothsville
Swan Hotel
Stevene Post
G. R
Council Chamber
East Orange Street
Warwick School Board
Warwick House
Litite Agricultural Mutual Wire Insurance Company
Litita ¥. M. C. A
Ww. CT. U
The
Loyal Temperance Legion
RB Court Lititz
F. of A
Trolley Road Schedules From Lancaster and Lititz
Timetables show morning departures from Lancaster starting at 5 A M with hourly runs to 8 P M then 9 30 and 11 The Lititz line begins 5 45 A M with hourly service to 5 15 P M then 8 46 10 15 and 11 45 Saturday and busy days add extra Lancaster trips at 5 A M and half hour spacing to 3 P M then later times Sunday service starts Lancaster at 7 A M and Lititz at 8 15 A M Additional entries include mixed illegible fragments and uncertain times for Manheim and other points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Lititz
Mattheim
A. M
Tans
Manheim
Train Schedule Almanac for City Lines and Suburbs
The timetable lists weekday and Sunday departures for routes to Reading Philadelphia Lancaster Columbia and Lebanon. Services run mornings afternoons and evenings with multiple daily departures and special Sunday times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bune Fun, Con
Libind
Reading
Philadelphia
Weale
Lancaster
Columbia
Lebanon
Local Supplier Advertises High Grade Goods On Hand
We offer a large stock of coal in all grades including hard, medium, and soft. Lumber of all kinds, slate, Victor Wall Plaster, Calcum Plaster and Pewter Sand. Roofing options include Granite, Peroid, Monarch, and Mutual Rubber Roofing. Also ground alum, common road salt, rock salt and fine table salt. High grade Griffith and Boyd Phosphate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor
Griffith and Boyd
Doing and Thinking. Mamma Bessie Dishwashing Quip
A humorous exchange resembles a newspaper card snippet. Mamma asks why not wash dishes. Bessie replies she will think. Another gag shows a fussing patient telling a London Opinion doctor she wanted to die and the doctor notes the call was proper. A riddle ends with Tissue as the answer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamma
Bessie
London
Also Mentioned on This Page
Grosbeak
Ctnole Sam
J. Ralph Pickell
Council of North American Gran Exchange
House
Capitol
Serena Payne
New York
Mr. Payne
Asia Minor
America
Chicago Tribune
Decker and Janssen
J. B. Young & Son
E. Orange St
A. R. Keller Beir
Bear
Coal & Lumber
Bear & Long
Lititz, PA
W.D. Pichthorn
Bow- Rudy's Meatman's Bakery
Allentown
C. H. Kreider
Hardware Store
Main St
Spruce Villa
Spruce Villa Dairy
Brubaker
Allen
Hotel
Sturgis
Aaron G. Hershey
Fina
D. Frank Kline, M
King St
Solarine
S. M. Huber
East Main Street
Buch & Hassler
IND
W. S. Buch
Attorney At Law
S. C. Hassler
Auct
Lancaster’s Best Jewelry Store
North Queen Street
Look’s New Jewelry Store
N. Queen St
Lancaster, Pa
Hershey, Seaman & Uo
Lititz, Penna
Hershey & Gibbes Conveparkers Scriveners
Lewis N. Moyer
P. D. Pharmacist
Main Street
Building & Gen
Eral Hardware
A. R. Bomberger & Co
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