Local Lititz Flour Mill Leads With Gold Dust Brand
Progressive business guide highlights Zartman Roller Mills near Lititz as home of Gold Dust flour. E K Zartman modernized operations over two decades, building a strong regional trade with consistent quality flour. Also lists stock feeds and Larro and Eshelman brands for dairy and livestock needs.
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Zartman’s
Zartman Roller Mills
Lititz
E. K. Zartman
Larro
Eshelman
Local firms feature plumbing heating hardware and poultry
R M Shiffer of Brownstown offers plumbing heating and roofing with new and repair work across Lancaster County. Kerr Chickeries expands with Lancaster City branch producing egg blood testing and leg banding for quality chicks. A. W. Lane Germ store at Clay operates general merchandise and fruit trading. Kissinger cigars in Rothsville offer affordable long-filler lines for discriminating smokers.
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R. M. Shiffer
Brownstown
Lancaster
Kerr Chickeries, Inc
Frenchtown
New Jersey
United States
New York
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Kerr Chickeries
Lancaster City
East Orange Street
H. F. Emmons
Kerr
Storrs
Kerr Testing Laboratory
Rhode Island
Poultry and automotive services highlight Rothsville trade
M E Snavely offers Jamesway poultry equipment and Larro feeds from Lititz area. Local garages in Rothsville handle DeSoto and Fargo lines with Kraft and Lemmer promoting modern service and fair deals. New service station management reinforces community auto care.
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M. E. Snavely
Lititz R. D
Snavely
James Manufacturing Company
Jamesway
Mr. Snavely
Rothsville
P. G. Kraft
Fargo Trucks
DeSoto Cars
DeSoto Fine
Chrysler
Mr. Kraft
DeSoto
Fargo
Brunnerville Hotel and Restaurant Under New Management
R Imhoff has taken over Brunnerville Hotel and Restaurant and made improvements to attract patrons. The establishment now offers homey surroundings, light lunches, refreshments, and music at all hours, with a welcoming atmosphere for locals and tourists and spaces ideal for parties.
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R. Imhoff
Brunnerville
Mr. Imhoff
A G Fahnestock's General Store Brunnerville Update
A G Fahnestock's General Store at Brunnerville is described as a modern, well stocked community store under proprietor A G Fahnestock. The business offers groceries, dry goods, notions, shoes, light hardware and more at attractively low prices due to low overhead and smart buying.
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A. W. Lane
Clay
Lititz
Myr
Lane
Brunnerville
A. G. Fahnestock
Fahnestock
Webster Ashburton Treaty Defined Maine Border 1842
The Webster Ashburton treaty between the United States and Great Britain in 1842 fixed the Maine Canada frontier, aimed to end the African slave trade, and established mutual extradition of suspected criminals.
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Webster-Ashburton
United States
Great Britain
Maine
Canada
Light From Steam Demonstrates Lighting a Cigarette
Doctor Andrade of the Royal Institution of London demonstrated lighting a cigarette with high pressure steam. He produced steam hot enough to ignite a match, noting that steam escaping from a teakettle has condensed into tiny water droplets and is no longer steam.
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Doctor Andrade
Royal Institution of London
Gol-Minded Acquaintance Offers Phonetic Name Spelling
A Chicago Daily News item notes a summer anecdote about a person who would spell the name Smith by saying the letters S M I T H with each letter explained as S as in stance M as in mashie I as in in T as in trap and A as in hook.
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Smith
Mashie
Hook
Chicago Daily News
Dark Age Cruelties In 1518 Tower Cage Executions
A fragment notes a wooden cage hung halfway up Pisa's Leaning Tower used to imprison prisoners who starved. The panile at times served as a watchtower and as a policy instrument during that era.
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Pisa
Beards of Romans and the Twenty One Rite
A Roman custom required shaving the beard at age twenty one as an offering to household gods. The beard then served as a sign of adulthood and religious devotion.
Dandelion Seed Flight Preparations Described
The text explains how a dandelion lowers its head to the ground pretending to be dead until its seeds are ready. It then lifts up to catch the wind and disperse the seeds.
Early European spread of beans and lake-dweller cultivation
The text notes beans were brought to Europe by western Aryans during early migrations and that Bronze Age lake dwellers in northern Halya cultivated a variety of the plant.
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Europe
Haly
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Lancaster County
Err Chickeries, Inc
H. S. Kissinger
Kissinger
Bill Ford
Porto Gordo
F. M. Bowman
Gould
Burks
Bowman
Lin Us
Jwater
Bowlman
R. Lemmer
Lemmer
Brunnerville Hotel
G. Fahnestock
Spacht
the Record Printing Company
Lityyz
Majestic Electric
Radio
Monarch of the Air
E. B. Weber & Son
South Broad Street
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