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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1935
Page
9
Weekly publication issued by The Record Printing Co and D Fulweiler J R Johnson. Registered at Lititz Pennsylvania as second class matter with post office processing.
The Record presents the weekly community news bearing tidings of local life, achievements, and hopeful, wholesome reporting. As the year ends and Christmas nears, the issue highlights peace on earth and goodwill in the hearts of neighbors and friends.
A historical note explains hurricanes forming in the Atlantic between Florida and Africa originate far from land, the vast ocean giving birth to these powerful storms that travel toward the mid Atlantic states.
The December 22 1935 report lists officers led by superintendent Walter H Buch and secretary W Diehm with assistants and a librarian. Also noted is the Lancaster County Poultry exhibition in Rudy's Hall with 1800 animals and leaders including J L Hertz and C Z Meiskey. Additional notes cover Christmas tree sales, local births, fishing finds, a 39th birthday, a death, and a prison inspector appointment amid cold weather and tobacco price shifts.
The history of pharmacopoeias centers on a 1617 London work produced after twenty eight years of committees. It lists 1028 simple drugs and 932 preparations, naming substances such as cream of tartar and calomel and sugar of lead. It describes methods to prepare goats blood young swallows earthworms and other items and how to dry fox lungs.
The article traces Christian adoption of December 25 as Christ's birth date, from St Cyril's 9th century findings through Julius’ approval, noting earlier contenders, Puritan opposition, and Massachusetts fines for Christmas observance. It cites Plymouth Governor Bradford and 1643 English Parliament abolition.
The article compares grandmother kitchens with today’s electric kitchens. It highlights the electric range and refrigerator as core advances, plus linoleum floors, better lighting, clocks, dishwashers, mixers, and a full set of modern appliances reducing kitchen drudgery.
The Greeks created early medical practice with skilled crews of physicians and pharmacists. Thescorides authored a materia medica in the first century AD that guided medicine for 1500 years. Galen, a second century Greek physician, originated many preparations including a coli cream still in use today.
A Reader's Digest article And Sudden Death by J. C. Furnas shocks readers with stark realism about highway crashes. In response, Industrial Harvester Co issues a free 64 page I Drive Safely manual for truck and bus drivers, available to fleets via Chicago offices.
Many fish diseases stem from microscopic organisms that live on the fish, varying in dependency for existence. Parasites attach to the body surface and gills, according to a United States Bureau of Fisheries report.
Many prisoners at the old Offa penitentiary were put to work on the building under construction. Upon completion those who behaved well and worked faithfully and whose terms were nearing, were allowed to go home.
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