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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1912
Page
3
Published weekly by J Frank Buch in Lititz Lancaster County Pa. Rates: one year 1.00 prepaid 1.25 after. six months 0.50. three months 0.80 prepaid. Discontinuance must be notified. failure to do so means continuation. Five new cash subscribers for one year entitle the sender to one year’s Record.
Reports to the State Health Department show a drop in Fourth of July facilities due to warnings and free tetanus antitoxin. Republican Rep. William Coleman Freeman of Cornwall withdraws from the Eighteenth Congress district race. Chester’s new Building Inspector targets two property owners for illegal construction. Bethlehem Steel wins Greek contracts worth $8 million for armor plate guns torpedo boats and munitions through the American Legation in Athens. A youngster dies at Altoona from a fireworks display. cause undetermined. Cumberland Valley Railroad publishes an apple industry booklet noting 1,011,000 apple trees along its lines. Mrs. Gerrity of Byrnesville near Mount Carmel gives birth to a baby boy, the family’s eighth son. Berks County Superintendent Eli M. Rapp notes rural teachers lack preparation in manual training domestic science horticulture and agriculture. George Holtzman of Myerstown plans an industry to produce an unnamed improved pretzel. Fulton Democrat editor J S Bratton chides older girls at picnics for not giving younger sisters more fun. A groundhog near Connelsville Steam Laundry is captured and may become pot pie as its mate was captured earlier. floods may have driven them to town.
A ninety two year old woman, famed hymn writer Fanny Crosby, declares she remains youthful and refuses to grow old. She says those who trust the Lord shall preserve their strength, and she expresses unwavering faith.
Congress reached agreement on disputed agricultural appropriation provisions with Taft expected to sign promptly. Lancaster county expects three key items secured by Rep. W. W. Griest: tobacco experiments, a soil survey and new soil map for Lancaster, and about $300,000 for farm demonstration work including $50,000 for Pennsylvania and nearby Northern States.
The Philadelphia Record offers a handsome photogravure of Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, Democratic candidate for President, to subscribers for four months daily or renewals for four months. A four months subscription costs $1.00 in advance. Specify if the picture is desired when subscribing.
Scientists study why cheese holes form revealing they reflect value to merchants and may be engineered. In another project Dr. Eastman renamed over 15,000 Sioux names, sometimes preserving original roots and often producing new, colorful Anglicizations like Winona Otana and Goodhouse, ending with Robert Pumpian from Rotten Pumpkin.
Dr Joseph Bell, inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, once described a class incident. He deduced a deserter by a blue mark on the deserter’s chest, noting such branding marked inmates in the Crimean era though not today.
In Eng land Dr Peter Oliver cites a cherry seed carved with 124 heads of rulers and saints, worth large sums, while notes on Indian idol jewelry estimate priceless head ornaments in rupees. A brief humor exchange about a money power note ends the excerpt.
A compiled list recounts August and September community picnics and reunions in Lititz, Lititz Springs, Rothsville, Lampers, and surrounding towns. Highlights include church society picnics, Prudent Life Insurance representatives, socialist gatherings, and family reunions at Lititz Springs plus fairs in Lebanon Valley, Middletown, Hopeland Park, and York County Agricultural events.
Time table shows trains from Lititz on weekdays and Sundays to Philadelphia Weekdays 7.95 A M and 1 40 and 7 06 P M Sundays 7 0 A M and 7 06 P M For Lancaster and Columbia Weekdays 8 16 A M and 7 21 and 4 06 P M Sundays 8 16 A M and 7 08 P M For Lebanon Weekdays 1 24 and 7 06 P M Sundays 8 16 A M and 7 06 P M
Isaac Sarah of Penryn offers mules for John D. Bear with contact options via postal card or phones. The text also includes garbled phrases implying a public call for attention and assistance, but the details are unclear and partially unreadable.
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