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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1912
Page
3
A devoted culinary steward champions healthful food by avoiding un healthful accessories. She promotes homemade baking and economy through quality ingredients and cites experts who say Royal Baking Powder yields the world’s best cooking.
A Harlem bank teller notes that handwriting and margins reveal more about people than signatures. He cites checks with humorous marginal lines from a prosperous saloon keeper and a joking jovial man, versus a divorced man scribbling for alimony to embarrass his ex-wife.
Court calendar outlines weeks for juries and trials from 1913 to 1918 across Equity and Common Pleas. Notices require issue lists 30 days before trials, penalties for jurors, and publication in Lancaster papers and the Lancaster Law Review. Prothonotary to publish orders and bills approved by County Controller.
Reuben Wildasin reports 7200 bushels of corn from 43 acres near Littlestown with 550 bushels from a 2.75 acre field. Fitzpatrick glass plant at Falla Creek may resume under Pancoast interests. Clyde Johe, 13, from Watsonville, returns home after fear of punishment. Clayton school at Boyertown reopens after itch outbreak cuts enrollment. Detained intoxicated man yields $2742 saved from banks near Punxsutawney by B R P detective Nathan Kohut. Jacob Smith of Manchester retires teaching at River Hill after 54 years and 7 months ill. Sheriff Bollman finds large cash stash on a jail detainee in Lebanon county. Reiber farm near Butler reports 1912 hand-picked apple yield of 34348 bushels, with a single Baldwin tree yielding 42 bushels. A 300-pound brown cinnamon bear killed by Edgar A. Schwenk near Loganton. Local reports note cinnamon bears are rare in Pennsylvania and suspected of cattle attacks.
In Japan fireflies shine as more than insects guiding romance and spirits of warriors. They are symbols of hope and longing, lighting paths for lovers and dreams of hearts. Fireflies blaze brighter and larger than European or American finds, even illuminating books for students and brightening verandas with delicate light.
Read of the great whale shark and basking shark. The giant creatures reach up to fifty feet, found off India Peru and Lower California for the former and in the Arctic for the latter. They are harmless as their tiny teeth filter surface matter through huge gill racks.
The article notes the imperial Japanese black oxen that draw the mikado’s funeral car, traits likened to a royal breed, and contrasts cream colored English horses once used by Napoleon’s era. It includes a New Yorker who bought a costly yacht to please his wife, who preferred the sea life and made the purchase worthwhile.
A city laborer hired out as farm help fails to answer promptly at 4 o clock. He paces the bed, then staggers to the field where an old farmer works hard. The farmer greets with a laconic acknowledgment, stating it was wine morning.
Beards on the battlefield are noted in history as a distraction and hazard. Alexander reportedly ordered Macedonians shaved to prevent beards from aiding enemies. Peter the Great also mandated shaving and even sent officers to forcibly trim offending beards.
A senator claimed Benton’s quarrel as a misimpression and an angry retort by a Missourian warned that fighting at times causes funerals. A humorous exchange about a letter and a portrait joke follows, illustrating political wit and social banter in clipped dialogue from period papers.
A fragment notes a tease of appearance and a remark about watching a house opposite to finish first, capturing a street scene with a playful exchange. The line implies a social moment where observation and competition between neighbors color everyday life.
A wry quotation mocks financial strain in marriage plans, contrasting a proposal to marry Evelyn with the dismissive remark about being unable to pay for her complexion. The line captures a humorous view of social expectations and economic constraints.
Letters of Administration granted for the estate of STATE OF RALPIL DL TODD or Elizabeth Township Lancaster County Pa. All debts must be paid and creditors should present claims for settlement to William D. Todd attorney administrator residing in Elizabeth Township Lititz R F D 2 MG Scrrszrrrr.
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