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Tescribion
Simdlay
South Africa
Fatian Promotion Society
Joseph
Mooney
Lynching and Emancipation Day in Hickman Kentucky
An appeal by Black residents to Governor to punish masked lynchers follows a dis charged Black man’s death near Hickman. The author recalls Hickman as wild and rough, notes river catfish, a fish boat stay, and a Northlander’s dream of returning home. The piece mocks local dangers, moonshine and disease threats, and suggests exile of the Kaiser to Slickman as a grim joke.
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Hickman
Kentucky
Sli¢kman
Blisse All of Tllly Day Edition Editorial Complaint
A reader laments the paper editorials and the flood of letters and ads. The writer mocks the tire suit coverage and complex legal detail, notes rising costs, and questions the paper’s relevance and value while criticizing endless promotional literature and inefficiency.
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Blisse
She Loves Hi She Loves Ism Not A Separation Tale
Aaron Ridenour of Connellsville Pennsylvania recited a rumbling account of a troubled marriage in which the wife left thirty times, he persuaded her back twenty nine times, and she had him arrested nine times for nearly four hundred dollars in costs.
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Aaron Ridenour
Connellsville
Unusual desertion case sparks Lititz reflections
In Lititz a husband and wife endure a thirtyth separation cycle amid a love triangle. Mrs Ridenour charges desertion and non support for herself and five children. The judge orders the wife to return and tend to her husband, while the town debates the situation and the many possible causes behind the marital strain.
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Lititz
War memories from a Lititz soldier at Chateau Thierry
Roy Miller recalls hospital stay in France two months then return to Baltimore hospital before homecoming. He describes a west woman learning her son was killed, witnessing chained women at machine guns, a wounded Frenchman delivering four Germans, and a German iron cross ring taken from a dead foe. He says he could have cooked at home but chose to go over the top.
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France
States
Baltimore
Chateau Thierry
Young Mille
Local Family Visits and Greetings Around Lancaster Area
Mr and Mrs L Wiest and family visited Mr and Mrs Oscar Kurtz in Denver on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Sam l Nissley spent Saturday and Sunday at Richland Lebanon county. Mrs Harry Risser returned from Lancaster Hospital last week. Mr and Mrs Elmer Bucher visited his parents in Lititz on Sunday. Some locals attended Christmas exercises at Lincoln Junction church Sunday evening. Miss Iva Miller of Brickerville stopped by J W Gerhar’s home on Monday.
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Iva Miller
Brickerville
J. W. Gerhar
Liberty fuel appears a cheaper gasoline substitute
War Department officers Maj. O. B. Zimmerman and Capt. E. G. Weisgerber announce Liberty fuel, a kerosene base motor fuel, produced in large quantities after five months of experiments. Described as odorless and non corrosive, it promises less residue, more efficient combustion, and about 20 percent greater explosion force than gasoline. It is suited for motor vehicles stationary engines and airplanes.
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War Department
O. B. Zimmerman
E.G. Weisgerber
General Engineering Depot
Maj. Zimmerman
Weisgerber
Liberty
Imajoe
The Simplest Way to Hide a Key in a Wardrobe
Mrs Flash spent a fortnight away and Mr Flash sought the billiard room key. She said it lay in her bolero pocket in the wardrobe. Returning, she found the wardrobe empty and he claimed he burned everything in the wardrobe to recover the key, a comic misunderstanding outcome.
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Adelaide
Australia
Chronicle
Death notice for Herbert West in Lititz influenza claims life
The local notice reports Herbert West died in Lititz from influenza. His wife and children are ill with the same disease. West, about 37, was foreman at a laundry and later ran a green grocery. He lived in Lititz six years, moved to California to join parents, and had been a member of the IX of P lodge. He boarded with William G. Eshleman on Center street.
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William Diehm
Herbert West
Tie
I. S. Buckwalter
Lititz
California
Michigan
IX. of
P.lodge
William G. Eshleman
Center Street
Death of Miss Elizabeth Brown at Brownstown
Miss Elizabeth Brown died Friday at her sister's home near Talmage from complications of diseases. Aged forty eight, she belonged to the Hivangelical Church of Brownstown. She is survived by two sisters Mrs. Kofroth and Mrs. John Hess of Brownstown. The funeral was held Tuesday morning with interment at Brownstown.
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Elizabeth Brown
W. G. Kofroth
Talmage
Deaths of Grant Birkenbine and Emma Leibig in Lancaster area
Grant M Birkenbine of Rothsville died at home Sunday at 1150 PM from tuberculosis after a two year illness aged 46. He leaves a wife Kate and children Wisie Elva Allen Jacob Marguerite Samuel and Catharine plus a grandchild. He belonged to Cigar Makers Union No 309 and Washington Camp No 459 and Becks Gand I of Lititz. Funeral Thursday at his home then Lutheran church Rathsville with Rev Weicksel officiating. Emma S Leibig widow of Oruth Leibig died Friday night in Lancaster General Hospital. She resided with her son John Orth Leibig at 915 Virginia Ave Lancaster. Survived by son John and minin in US Navy and brothers and sisters including A N Breneman Helen A Albright Amos M Albright Rev Samuel C Albright. Funeral held Tuesday at her brother’s home.
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Grant M. Birkenbine
Rothsville
Kate
Nee Tramlin
Wisie
Ralph Miley
Lite
Elva
Viamos Long
Allen
Jacob
Marguerite
Samuel
Catharine
Aman
Henry Mad@lem
Mary Ann
Daniel Tadwig
Oregon
Charles
Lully
Sarah
Addison Long
Rebecca
A. D. Rutter
Reading
Aaron
Brownstown
Itrank
Millport
Harriet Stef
The
Cigar Makers’ Union
Memberington Camp
P.O
Rathsville
Beck’s Gand I
Lititz
Lutheran Church
H. M. Mellinger
Denver
Emma
Leibig
Orufith Leibig
Sparrows Point
Lancaster General Hospital
John Orth Leibig
Virginia Avenue
John O
Lancaster
Miniin
United States Navy
A. N. Breneman
Batthes Wharf
Ala
Helen
Rev Albright of Lebanon Interment in Mt Lebanon cemetery
The obituary notes the burial of Reverend Albright from Lebanon with interment in Mt Lebanon cemetery.
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Rev. Albright
Lebanon
Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
Ringleader of Bomb Plot Arrested in Lancaster
Dominick Costerella, accused by his wife of leading a bomb plot, was arrested in Lancaster and taken to Milwaukee. Detectives say he is the ring leader behind the Chicago federal building blast and the Milwaukee police station bombing last November that killed ten.
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Dominick Costerella
Chicago
Milwaukee
Lancaster
Casterella
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Ralph E. Buch
W. Willis Rader
Lititz Va
Hickman, KY
Roy Miller
LN Lancaster
J.E. Charles
Lititz, Pa
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Lititz Springs
H. H. Diehm
Christmas Club
Farmers National Bank
J. H. Breitigan
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