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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1929
Page
2
The Center Lutheran and Reformed Sunday School hosts an annual picnic in the Grove near Terre Hill. The Churchtown band supplies instrumental music and the Keystone male quartet of Harrisburg, heard on WHP, will perform a program of sacred, popular and folk songs.
A burnishing process creates a smooth glossy surface by rubbing to polish an object. Abrading wears away the surface through friction and material removal.
The Toronto Hamilton Niagara and St. Catharines Telegraph company built Canada's first telegraph line, beginning in 1847 and marking a pivotal advance in national communications.
A dense schedule lists Moravian, Lutheran, Congregational, United Brethren, Reformed, Brethren, Mennonite, and Catholic services with Sunday school times, sermons, and special events at various local churches including Lititz, Akron, Brickerville, Penryn, and Hammer Creek. Also notes Mexican Spanish literacy figures and a quotation on worth by Emerson.
The Day of Atonement, observed on the tenth day of the month of Tishti, is described as the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar with fasting prayer and atonement rituals.
A list of fruit dishes begins with Cherries with Orange and explains arranging orange sections with three cherries on a plate. Grapefruit may substitute and be eaten by hand. Also includes Fruit Balls using watermelon centers with orange juice sugar sauce and mint, plus Oyster Plant with Herbs and Banana Salad with boat-shaped banana sections filled with chopped fruit and dressed with French dressing.
A simple serving suggestion describes placing a bed of lettuce on a plate and sprinkling paprika. It recommends using berries or cherries as a color and flavor garnish to finish the presentation.
A list of reunions and a county convention are planned at Springs Park and St. Pauls Lutheran Church. Families Witmer Newgard Gantz Bomberger Gass Roth Butzer Frymeyer and Elser Oberlin plus the W G T U County Convention are noted with dates in September.
In Cincinnati The Enquirer reports a humorous prize item where a man misinterprets a girl’s line as a clothesline and proposes marriage thinking she would do her own washing.
About 10 000 people and 200 dancers joined nearly 100 fiddlers from four states for the fifth Lancaster and Chester County Old Fiddlers Association convention at Crystal Springs Park Parksburg. Traffic, led by state patrolmen, moved slowly as motorists jammed roads with cars arriving at 300 per hour despite threatening morning skies.
A big city park hosted a lively performance with dancers and instrumentalists but no fiddler. An admiring crowd gathered around the open space, enjoying the varied entertainments and festive atmosphere.
The 46th annual Lancaster County W. C. T. U. convention will convene at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Lititz on September 4 and 5. Mrs Minnie K L Karnell of Philadelphia will speak Wednesday evening. The Thursday banquet is canceled due to the death of President Miss Amanda Landis.
The phrase recalls conjurers who claimed tricks were done by uttering a name of power such as Solomon.
A humorous column notes the unexpected joy of a feast replacing a threat as Albany reporter Knight hails a prank turning grim into grand with a banquet instead of a brickbat.
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