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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1881
Page
2
The Lititz Record urges adopting Osage orange hedges as a practical, low-cost fence to protect property, reduce trespassers, and shield crops. It notes banks and investors in Reading and Lititz discuss expansion, tenant housing, and local growth, with weather and community notes interspersed.
The author surveys 1881 as a eventful year with many comets observed and unusual heavenly phenomena. He notes a prevailing drought affecting regions, contrasts distress elsewhere, and reflects on the nation’s endurance as winter approaches.
At D L Hamaker mill dam near Petersburg a hunter mistaken for a muskrat was shot by Nathan Graybill. William Guyer, aged about 80, sustained a shot to the head and is near death. Graybill and companions fled the scene as medics and villagers react to the fatal accident.
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