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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1926
Page
2
Canton has long been described as an open door, tracing a history of foreign trade since 1786. A Chinese statesman reflects on past figures like Stephen Girard and John Jacob Astor shaping American trade with the Orient, while noting enduring open-door ideas.
The Sandwich Islands Gazette recounts Captain Johann A. Sutter’s Hawaii sojourns and his ambition to build a California domain New Helvetia. It details his Pacific Trade Company setup in Honolulu, a black bishop’s crozier flag, and plans to ship Kanaka labor, with further notes on his travels via Sitka to San Francisco and his bold, expansive vision.
Joseph K. Smith, chief of police in Columbia, was reinstated to his position by the borough council. Despite an unfavorable committee report that led to his temporary discharge by Burgess Henry M. Brunner, the council sustained him by a 5 to 2 vote.
W J Miller was elected once more as president at the Lincoln Fire Company monthly meeting, continuing a tenure in that role spanning more than 25 years.
A steer consigned to Merchants Meat Co of Norristown escaped from a Peninsylvania Rail Road cattle pen. It chased by men onto thin ice on the Schuylkill River at Franklin Avenue, broke through and was freed with difficulty. Awaiting transport to slaughter, it fell back into the river a second time and, after recovery, was deemed unfit for food and sold for fertilizer.
A fragmentary line shows a distressed speaker in a domestic dispute context. The speaker expresses a wish tied to a spouse or partner and mentions a preference not to confront an imagined outcome, hinting at conflict and emotional strain within a marriage.
The account traces the Fort Walla Walla mediation that settled a dispute among Flatheads and Nez Perces, then follows Sutter's decline after California's gold rush. His land, mill at Coloma, and mill workers faced desertion and ruin as gold drew away wealth. He sued Congress, failed in recovery, and died impoverished near the U.S. Capitol years later.
The passage notes that the army was organized largely from ships carrying men, Hawaiians and whites, gathered in Honolulu, at a location referred to as the show places where the activity concentrated.
A fragmentary quotation by W. E. B. Lecky discusses money as a strong and enduring temptation, likening it to a powerful impulse that grows with age, exceeding drunkenness and animal passions in influence. The text emphasizes money’s persistent strength across life.
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