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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1911
Page
5
Fire alarm tags list various locations and taps around Millersville. The article also covers religious services across multiple denominations in Lititz Manheim and surrounding areas, plus weather and harvest impacts from continuous rain.
In a pitchers duel Stark vs Diffenderfer the Bretzels win 2 to 0 as Rube’s clutch eighth inning hit breaks a scoreless game. Manheim’s Al Young limited Lititz to few hits while Dieffy and Jerry shut down the rival bats in a brief game under eighty minutes.
A series of local nuptials is recorded including Victor Sturgis and Pearl Free at the Moravian parsonage with plans for a Niagara Falls trip and residence in Reading. Other weddings follow in Lititz Neffsville Springs Bethlehem and Philadelphia circles with details of attendants and venues. A later item recalls a man wandering Main Street claiming to go west before being found at home rolling bretzels, uncertain what beverage he drank.
Mrs. Caroline Becker near Pine Hill brought summer rambos to the office last week. The fruit was large and flavorful, grafted on a young crab-apple stock, with healthy condition and no scale. Local market figures show green corn 8 to 10 cents a dozen ears, sweet potatoes 10 cents a quarter peck, potatoes 18 cents a half-peck, pears 10 to 12 cents a half-peck, lima beans 7 to 8 cents per pint, tomatoes 4 to 6 cents a box, cantaloupes 5 to 10 cents, watermelons 10 to 30 cents, dressed chickens 35 to 70 cents each, butter 80 cents a pound, eggs 20 cents a dozen.
A collage of seasonal snippets notes school bells, students returning, and fall signs. It mentions rain, pumpkins, pumpkin pie, the oyster season, and jokes about advice, bachelors, and fashion fading as autumn arrives.
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