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Newspaper

Lititz Record

Location

Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Aug 19, 1920

Page

4

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.

Lititz, Pa

STOP THE NOISE AT LANCASTER AUTO CLUB MEETING

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.

Lancaster Automobile Club Lititz California

Boost Your Tongue Guard, Tend Neighborly Ties

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.

Bill Jones Bill Bifl

CULL YOUR HENS: Lancaster County poultry culling demonstrations

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.

Lancaster County Farm Bureau J. D. Munroe Paul R. Guldin State College Bucher Munroe

Hertz Family Holds Fourth Annual Reunion in Ephrata Park

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.

Hertz Ephrata Park Pennsylvania Allegheneyville Church Europe Teft's Grove Adamstown J. L. Hertz John A. Hertz Miriam Thelma Russell

Power Plant from a Radium Dial Watch Explained

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.

Where the Fault Lay in a Night Duty Rescue

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.

London

Egyptian Women Prospering in Wartime Prosperity

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.

Egypt

Guns on Airplanes Invention and Aviation Firepower

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.

Roland Garros

Heard Own Burial Service Ends in Funeral

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.

Parker Mason United States Montreal Herald

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Werte Barbara Helen Santa Daddy Helen Haughily Timothy Brown Jonas Perkins Timothy Halloa Old Perkins Lititz Electric Supply Company C. E. Mohler East Main St Heard Own Burial Service The Seaman Leed N. Broad Street J. B. Young & Son E. Orange St Uncle Ad Financial Statement Lancaster County Penn WONEY Ing County Institut State Retirement’ Board Regennas Ruth Vadit E. E. Mabecker J. W. Brubaker Zartman Ralph M. Spacht Oliver H. Bair’s Philo W. H. Enck Home Music CO W. King St. Lancaster Phonographs Delaware F. H. Becher J. F. Essig Auto Equipment Service Co E. Main St C. T. Ritchie Mgr Raezers’ Pulmon-Ic Kesth, Getyte Perma Boy Scouts Paramount Theatre Charles Ray Lititz Pretzel Pictures Marguerit Marsh Wam. S. Hart Wallace Reid
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