Farewell to 1884 Welcome to the untried Year 1885
The Lititz Record bids farewell to 1884 and greets 1885 with wishes of peace, prosperity, and plenty. The column reviews a year of uneven business fortunes, political shifts, and global events, noting growth in farms, minerals, and oil while highlighting stock declines, labor struggles, and epidemics. It anticipates a hopeful dawn for the new year.
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DTA PL Secuurus
Iste
Democratic Party
Grover Cleveland
New York
Cheater Arthur
Congress
New Orleans
South
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
West Indies
Cuba
Porto Rico
de Lesseps
Europe
Madagascar
England
France
Russia
Germany
Austria
Great Britain
Italy
Congo
The Record for the New Year Returns Optimism
The Record urges optimism for 1885 despite challenges and invites readers to embrace a hopeful, united outlook. It promotes new features like “Men of the Hour” sketches and announces a yearlong subscription offer, highlighting the value of a weekly family newspaper over costly theater trips.
Marriage of Miss Mary Ey Fieles to Giles G Rush
Miss Mary Ey Fieles daughter of M. M. Fieles of Baltimore married Giles G. Rush at 2 PM on December 18 at the bride’s home. Guests witnessed the ceremony and the couple departed for Washington DC as their future home. Gifts included bisque statuary clocks venetian glass and silverware. The White Oak School report notes lower attendance and a spelling list.
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Mary Ey
Fieles
M. M. Fieles
Baltimore
Giles G. Rush
Waslington
D. C
Sketch of the Life of Doctor Levi Hull from Lititz
In a Dec 29 1884 sketch G. R. B. recounts Doctor Levi Hull long a Lititz resident. Born in New Holland to a farmer father and Kittera mother, Hull studied livestock judging and medicine at Jefferson Medical College. He likely settled in Lititz before 1833, married by 1840, and built a respected medical reputation there with a wife from the Kauffman family.
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Parnapenpatra
Levi Hull
Lititz
Heresay
New Holland
Holls Or Hulls
Kittera
Chester County
Isaac Winters
Hinkletown
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
Labora
Kauffman
Jacob Ziegler
Kauf
Rothsville Rambles and Local Happenings
Dr A M Shaeffer of Farmersville rents Snavely residence to begin practice next spring. Col Geo Geyer’s wife is ill. Painter Fleury Hegenschweiler weds Miss Ella Snavely in Reading last Thursday. Rothayville band fair a grand success. Swan Hotel Hall overflowed with friends' items. a man lacking a permit disrupted the event. Oliver Diehm narrowly escaped death when his horse ran away with a sleigh. O Habecker sold a 109 year old German mirror for 1.35 at John M Keener sale. FP Hart leaves Habecker’s distillery. P B Sprecher succeeds. Pennville hotel host keeps a fox to release on the 10th. Christ Hahecker’s December sales exceed his manufacture. J H Mace of Hearling visits. New Brasiys horse thief John Ford Ford dies in Akron after nine weeks brain fever. The ad touts Electric Bitters with claims of rapid recovery from multiple ailments.
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Rothsville
A. M. Shaeffer
Farmersville
Snavely
Geo. Geyer
Fleury Hegenschweiler
P. B. Kofreth
Reading
Ella Snavely
Rome
Rothayville
Swan Hotel
N. N. Bender
Itewn Lever
Oliver Diehm
Penn
O. Habecker
John M. Keener
Germany
Hart
Habecker
Sprecher
Pennville Hotel
Christ. Hahecker
J. H. Mace
Tsq
Hearling
John Frankford
Akron
Ohio
Christmas School Festivals at Shaefferstown Churches
Christmas services and Sunday school festivals held at Evangelical Lutheran and St. Pauls Reformed churches in Shaefferstown. Performances included recitations hymns and readings with organ and clarinet solos. Reverends Groh Martz Dietzler Stine Donber Fernsler led dedicatory sermons and separate Lutheran Sunday school program featured a dialogue with Santa Claus.
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Chirch Ewe
St. Paul’s Reformed Sunday School
Charles H. Moore
Milton J. Krieger
Mock
Wm. Mann
Clara 8
Krall
Lizaie Horst
Edith Mann
Jno
B. Moore
Brendle
A. J. Baceman
Evangelical Tutheran Church
Leonard Groh
Gentlemane
Greli
George J. Martz
J. M. Dietzler
M. H. Stine
Stine
W.H. Donber
Fernsler
Groh
Lutheran Sunday School
Dillie Brubaker
Hymana
Misa Lizzie Schaeffer
Fernster
C. Benson
Banta Claus
Unionville Items Aquiry of a late night encounter
A visiting boy had a troublesome night at Mr. Jacob Dammy's house near Lititz. A failed attempt to stay, a horse refused the stable, sharp words followed and he left for his home north of Lititz. Local residents Jacob Moyer and Mrs Jacob Ober are in their eighties. Mary Dominy attended Selina More regularly for ten terms and Acate daily for nine terms.
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Jacob Dammy
Lesire
Kim
Jeb
Vinay
Lititz
Jacob Moyer
Jacob Ober
Jacob
Catherine Dominy
Rome
Selina
Mary
Cheap Excursion to New Orleans or Jacksonville
Round trip fares from Harrisburg to New Orleans 42.95 and to Jacksonville 46.25 with through train via Lititz Ephrata and Harrisburg. Sleeping cars to New Orleans available. berths 8 dollars extra. Tickets must be secured by January 8. Also notes a 25 cent medicinal salve offered at Lititz Drag Store.
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New Orleans
Jacksonville
Fla
Lititz
Ephrata
Harrisburg
J. L. Bingaman
Reading
Register of Sales Notices for Jan 3 and Branverville items
The register lists sales where bills were printed at this office and notes deadlines to week of the case. At the Warwick House on Jan 3, 200 head of Indiana county shoots are sold by Smith Wachob. Branverville sale includes 3 horses 3 cows conveyances and household goods by Anna M Thirttantt administratrix. Tan 24 at Warwick 29 acres of land by Susanna RR Br pke executrix of Brubaker deceased.
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Parsons
Acorn
Warwick House
Indiana County
Smith Wachob
A&t
The Philadelphia Times Aims to Cover the Field
A prospectus describes The Philadelphia Times as a progressive, all encompassing chronicle of the world’s events. The paper seeks to report with bias-free depth, gathering particulars by telegraph to press for the past twenty four hours.
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Times
The Weekly Times Offered at One Dollar a Year
The Weekly Times promotes its low yearly price and a free extra copy with clubs of 20. It claims wide scope for national readership and aims to be affordable journalism for the people, highlighting war writing from both Union and Confederate participants.
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Times
Weekly Times
Building Lot and Private Sale Notice on Broad Street
Private sale notice advertises a building lot at Broad Street measuring 28 by 200 feet. Prospective buyers should apply to Rosanna Kreiter by November 7.
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Parvateale
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