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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1924
Page
8
A Lititz writer extols square dealing in sports and laments cheating. He praises Kreider's Boys baseball for solid effort and suggests honoring the team with a community feed. He looks ahead to a basketball intermission and hopes for a successful 1924 25 season.
Lititz and Quarryville battled to a split in a Saturday doubleheader at Quarryville. The first game ended 6 to 5 in favor of Quarryville, the second was decided in the final inning 4 to 3 for Lititz. Key moments included late defensive plays and a three-run rally by Southern Enders shaping the outcome in the nightcap.
A scientist notes that 10,000 spider threads do not match the thickness of one human hair. The remark highlights the remarkable and often unbelievable wonders of nature.
A collection of brief items touches on school start, blackberry abundance, cider press activity, tobacco growers optimism, oyster season aligned with Labor Day on Sept 1, peaches slow to come, county fair, travel, and civic maxims. It notes vacation ends, bumper corn crop, ongoing community show, and old adages about head use and silence in defeat. It also reflects on Bolshevists, fall fair dates, liberal views of beggars, alcohol vs milk economy, bobbed hair, mail misdirections, tax jokes, Sunday school picnics, automobile safety, and economic quips. It closes with harvest fish data and U S consumption globally.
The article discusses opinions on whether Hebrew was the language of Adam or if Hebrew Chaldean and Arabic are mere dialects of a single original tongue as Genesis 11:1 notes that the whole earth spoke one language. It surveys various scholarly and theological perspectives.
A historical report highlights severe sturgeon overfishing reducing catch numbers. Living specimens sometimes fetch several hundred dollars, underscoring the species' endangered status and market demand.
Readable text hints at a late medieval or early modern context with references to an eighteenth century timeline and a reign era. The fragment is too incomplete to identify people places or events with confidence.
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