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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1911
Page
6
A writer in the Lancet reports a simple arm friction method to revive fainting persons. By gripping the wrist and sliding the fingers toward the elbow repeatedly, the patient often says they feel better and a physician might consider applying this technique in cholera care to improve blood flow.
A Berlin deputy finds a key on the sidewalk and carries it to a police bureau for lost items. The agent orders him to deliver it to the bureau or face a possible fine or prison. Since then the deputy keeps his hand in his pocket.
A Derbyshire tale recalls Foremark hangman’s stone with a legend of a sheep thief choking on rope. The piece then shifts to hint at high life vice with clubs like Arthurs Altmacks Bootles and Whites, citing Charles Iox’s £200,000 loss and Gibbon’s twenty-two hour session, ending with a Thackeray reference from The Four Georges.
The article traces poster history from 1886 French book ads by Lelance, noting black on white or tinted early designs, the rise of color posters around 1860, and Teles Cherel hailed as father of the pictured placard. It cites Fred Walker's English poster for The Woman in White as an early English hit in London Chronicle.
A small city political boss, driving a buckboard at top speed, rushes along the main street on election morning. He yells to a companion to hurry to the Fourth ward, claiming people are voting as they blame please, in a scene that echoes Success Magazine style.
A fragmented OCR item mentions a riot and a rejected proposal tied to a ritual world. Names and places are unreadable, leaving the core ideas of social unrest and relationship rejection implied rather than explicit. The text is garbled and lacks clear dates or entities to identify.
In a mix of reminiscence and social commentary the piece recalls Justice Brewer praising John B. Gough's temperance oratory at Yale, the force of personal magnetism, and a vivid line about a drunkard. It also cites Dr Wood Hutchinson on cat war cries and a frontier censorious view on grammar as a driver of violent language.
A collage of short items includes a gambling joke on a diner and waiter, a beggar tale with a college professor, notes on Dionysus Theatre as an ancient landmark, a caution against wives keeping honey moon diaries, a jokester who gave up jokes after proposing, and a line about widowers knowing what’s coming.
Bookman surveys famous novelists and notes their early pursuits before writing. It catalogs law students such as Fielding Scott Reade Wilkie Collins Blackmore Irving Meredith Grant James Hope Rider Haggard Wis ter. journalism figures like Dickens Murray Black Barrie Crawford Cable Crane Norris Davis Phillips. naval and marine names including Smoket Captain Marryat Cooper Russell Conrad Robertson. artists and architects Thackeray Maurier Smith Chambers Hardy Locke. medicine and theology representatives Smollett Holmes Weir Mitchell Conan Doyle and Sterne Kingsley Van Dyke Gale Maclaren Connor Dixon. college professors Besant Herrick Matthews.
The piece recounts a medieval blood tax between French and Spanish valleys over a 700-year-old homicide. Shep herds of Roncal valley paid yearly tributes of three white mares, later three cows, presented at frontier stones since 1875, with records kept in the Ron realais archives. It notes the ritual endures beyond wars and revolutions.
A collage of vintage clippings notes varied seasonal foods linked to religious days from figs on Palm Sunday to cross buns on Good Friday, with side quotes from papers like Argonaut and Washington Herald. Snippets include a boy leading a St Bernard and quips about horses and cold meat service, followed by a Johnson quote on integrity and knowledge.
Lititz groups hold regular meetings across town with dates, times, and venues. Highlights include Lititz Lodge No 253 K of P meets Mondays at Rudy's Hall. Garfield Castle No 76 KGE Tuesdays at Rudy's Hall. Star Temple No 70 Ladies of GE meets first and third Wednesdays at 7 30 PM. GAR Stevens Post No 67 meets first and third Saturdays at Brobst's Hall. Lititz Springs Council No 197 meets Fridays at 7 30 PM at Rudy's.
Schedules show trolley departures from Lancaster Lititz and nearby towns. Times include morning starts at 6 A M with hourly runs to late afternoon, plus Saturday adjustments and Sunday first cars. Additional routes cover Lancaster Petersburg and Manheim with complex start times and intervals.
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