Lititz Post Office Second Class Matter Noted
Entered at the Lititz Pennsylvania Post Office as second class matter indicating standard mailing status for periodical circulation.
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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
4
Entered at the Lititz Pennsylvania Post Office as second class matter indicating standard mailing status for periodical circulation.
Lancaster Automobile Club discussed banning noisy autos at Lititz meeting last week. A speaker argued no whistle loud enough and enumerated noisy inventions. He warned persistent street noise harms residents and urged less noise to let pedestrians sleep and hear themselves talk.
Women and men are cautioned against gossip and malice as a moral lesson on social behavior. The piece urges minding one’s own business, avoiding scandal, and boosting neighbors to make and keep friends. It ends with a note on freedom and equality under law.
Lancaster County Farm Bureau led twenty four poultry culling demos reaching 958 attendees across localities, teaching hens to lay indicators by anatomy and behavior. Experts Munroe, Guldin, and Bucher drove from place to place to explain pelvic bone spread abdomen flexibility vent color comb condition and molt timing as methods to identify laying hens for removal.
The Hertz family held its fourth annual reunion last Saturday in Ephrata Park drawing about a hundred relatives from several southeastern Pennsylvania counties and other states. The event traced back to 1917 at Allegheneyville church with early settlers from Europe. reunions in 1918 and 1919 occurred at Teft's Grove near Adamstown, and this year featured Dr. J. L. Hertz giving an address.
The Electrical Experimenter notes that a radium dial can store vast energy, enough to power a train if released quickly. The glow comes from zinc sulphide mixed with radium, lasting centuries, suggesting potential for a high energy motor. Also included are humorous vignettes and a holiday scene in short fiction pieces.
An Irish police recruit on night duty hears five shouts and discovers a house ablaze. A man hangs from an upstairs window cries for help and asks to be caught when he jumps. The constable promises to catch him but lets him fall, then jokes that he was waiting to bounce him while he recovers.
The article notes a shift in Egyptian rural life as reconstruction boosts farmer incomes. Fellasheen and their wives gain purchasing power. the donkey still carries the husband while the wife directs bargaining and markets all farm products amid cotton price surges from $20 to $100 per kantar.
The article notes that during the great war the method of firing machine guns through propellers emerged with French aviator Roland Garros credited as a pioneer. It describes earlier mounting above the propeller and mentions revolver turrets and rear mountings. It states the Browning gun can fire 20 000 shots at 600 rounds per minute.
The Montreal Herald recounts Parker Mason a US millionaire who before dying arranged a rehearsal of his funeral in his bedroom calling a Presbyterian minister and choir to perform then met with an undertaker and pallbearers. He died ten hours later and was buried with the same service he had listened to.
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