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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1883
Page
2
In a notice dated Friday August 17 1883 advertisers are told the paper goes to press Thursday afternoon and cannot insure late matter after Wednesday. The piece includes local items on politics war reminiscences, Forest Congress actions, Captain Webb, Wilde, naval guns, Spanish gossip, finance fears, and a long Civil War anecdote about a Confederate trench fight.
County Cunnines Ephrate runs twenty two cigar factories employing two hundred twenty five workers and producing four hundred thousand cigars weekly. Thirteen deaths in the county from smallpox in four months. Fire destroys a William Pennock barn and a nearby log house used for tobacco storage, both arson. Masterson Witmer hold twenty thousand dollars of packed tobacco in Mastersonville. Elizabeth Brandt buried after a large funeral at Cassel’s meeting house. Lancaster merchants agree to take eighty five cents on trade dollars after August 13. Neffs ville Union Sunday School to hold annual celebration August 25 in Adam B Long’s woods. Numerous shop ads include drug store wares and Strobridge & Clothier’s Summer issue.
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