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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1883
Page
2
The 1888 issue notes weekly publication timing, reader submissions must be authenticated. It recounts Cincinnati flood disasters forcing evacuations and vermin problems, a dubious dyspepsia cure with oats, Zola translations stirring German censorship, a tragic shooting amid love and jealousy, and forecasts of winter crop failures despite hopeful harvest prospects.
A crowded four story New York City school building with two narrow stairways and six and a half foot wide halls led to a deadly crush as smoke spread. Fifteen girls, oldest twelve, died in the crush while the fire was quickly extinguished. The report notes the danger of overcrowding and the need for safer egress and orderly evacuation. It also covers local political notes, election moves, and a travel sketch detailing Canada and Ontario observations, including license laws, land prices, and farming conditions.
The article describes Ontario towns on Lake Ontario and Georgian Bay like St Catharine Hamilton Toronto Owen Sound Meadford and Collingwood as thriving shipping ports with interior rail hubs. It notes a strong rail network from Lake Huron to Ontario and Erie to Georgian Bay, a healthy but cold climate with heavy snow in winter, and discusses daily snowfalls and wind transport. A call favors Canada joining the United States, then lists local ads and notices about chandeliers lamps seeds whiskey and a Philadelphia hotel rate cut.
Just received a load of Queensware at low figures. Muslin five cents, cheese ten cents, white sugar, tobacco twine ten cents a ball. Stair oil cloth fifty cents a yard. Table syrup for a little, flour sulfur one dollar, Barker's cattle powder one dollar. Men and boys caps twelve to thirty eight cents. Caustic soda five pound cans seven cents. Oranges one cent each. Canned corn peaches and a large lamp for eighty eight cents.
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