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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1914
Page
7
The passage extols anticipation as vital to joy, arguing forward-looking hope fuels life and virtue. It cites Jesus and Ruskin to claim striving for greater things sustains faith, urging readers to endure present limits by envisioning a brighter future.
A brief devotional note appears in Woman's Home Companion noting that Christ endured the cross for the joy set before him. The sermon title is The Joy of Looking Ahead delivered at Broadway Tabernacle New York.
A guide to affordable art gifts with mounted photographs and watercolors using common cardboard and simple mats. Tips include making long wall displays with ribbon mounts a bread paste cleanup for cardboard blemishes and flour ammonia putty to clean white mats.
About five million dolls are produced yearly in Vincennes France and shipped to Paris where hundreds of girls dress them in the latest styles. Prizes are offered each year for best doll design and for improvements in doll manufacturing, helping French dolls attain a high finish. Women worldwide earn living by dressing dolls and by designing clothes for them.
A Wide World Magazine description notes Paraguay roads narrowed to five yards with overhead trees forming a tunnel. Thick yellow spider silk nets span the path, forcing travelers to cut their way through. Giant gaudy spiders anchor extensive, intricate webs, sometimes twenty to thirty yards between trees.
The text notes key early diplomats: John Adams as first minister plenipotentiary to England, Thomas Pinckney as first minister under the Constitution, Thomas F. Bayard as first ambassador to the court of St James in 1838, George Hammond as first British minister to the United States in 1791, and Lord Pauncefote as first British ambassador to Washington in 1893.
A vivid fragment recalls Christmas trees rushing by in a fast scene on a street. The rapid motion and old wear hinted in the caption evoke a lively holiday moment amid traffic and noise.
The United Zion Home Hospital and Infirmary near Lititz will host its inmates for a Christmas dinner as in prior years. Public support is requested for food clothing and bedding, with donations sent to United Zion Home and Hospital Lititz Pa. The home reports new improvements including an electric power plant powering lighting and heating.
The article lists weekday and Sunday passenger car departures between Lititz and Lancaster with half hour intervals from early morning to evening and specific late trains. It also notes freight cars leaving Lititz at 9.15 A.M. and 3.15 P.M. arriving in Lancaster at 11.30 A.M. and 6.00 P.M.
A list of local fraternal and civic groups in Lititz with their meeting nights and locations. Details include Lisita Castle No 19 A O K of M Rudy's Hall Fridays Knights events Garfield Castle Navy visits Morning Star Temple meetings. Washington Camp P O of A Rothsville Thursdays. Stevens Post G A R Lititz areas. Lititz Springs Council ALM Fridays Rudy's Hall weekly council sessions. Lititz Borough Council and Lititz School Board monthly schedules. Lititz Hose Company No 1 first Wednesdays at Nast Orange street Warwick School Board Saturdays Warwick House. Littiz Agricultural Mutual Fire Insurance first Tuesdays. W C I M 43 meets alternate Mondays Moravian Chapel 7:30 pm. Royal Temperance Legion Saturdays 2:16 pm. Court Lititz No 6 F of A second and fourth Wednesdays 8 pm Rudy's Hall.
F. C. Hornstein manager of the Eph rata and Lebanon railway reports five passenger cars and one freight car built in Cincinnati at a cost of 47000 have been completed and await delivery. Overhead system work is rushed with a Iowa sub plant costing about 7000 and 100 men will be employed to install it. The new cars seat 48 passengers and the freight car carries 30 tons.
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