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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1931
Page
8
Chevrolet led US new car registrations for December 1930 with 31,609 units, surpassing the next leading make by about 2,000. Early January figures suggest Chevrolet maintains a strong lead in the domestic market.
The article notes December as the first month in automobie history where six cylinder cars led in deliveries to consumers. Since switching from four to six in 1929 Chevrolet has led in production and sales, building on the newer six cylinder model for the current leading position. Meanwhile, a Moravian Church session reports on bandage sewing for the Bethesda Leper Home in Surinam and Alaska Chapel Fund donations.
The British nation dedicated four Victoria Crosses to honor American WWI dead. A cross bore the inscription The Unknown Warrior of the United States of America. By order of King George V Lord Beatty laid it at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery on November 11, 1921.
The Earl of Chesterfield suggests manners pair with knowledge to guide the world. A valued diamond in a closet of curiosity, the idea emphasizes intrinsic worth alongside social propriety.
Household sweepers called common brooms are made from panicles or tops of broom corn bound together and formerly from plan broom twigs. Coarse street sweeping brooms mainly use Cohune palm twigs, Viassaba fiber and other materials. Snow and yard brooms are sometimes made of wire or coarser material and are larger than house brooms.
Readiness to give as well as take marks good conversation and manners. Consideration for the other fellow, appreciation of and responsiveness to others define a good talker and listener.
A recent table ranks chestnuts weighed without shells first among fruits nuts and vegetables. Dried peas follow and old potatoes weighed as served come in third in the listed food values.
Carob meal is made from a bean resembling a lima bean, reddish brown and tender to chew. The beans grow in pods on trees like locusts found in Mexico and the southwestern United States. Carob meal is used in this country as stock food.
The first gas stove on record was used in 1876 by a baking powder company to showcase cake baking at the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition.
A reflective aphorism notes that true character shows in how one earns and keeps goals, with failure revealing resilience while success can betray a person’s loyalties and values. It emphasizes steady conduct over outcomes.
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