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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
2
A Cleveland Plain Dealer account describes a dull railcar journey where a stout man, a parson in a white tie, and a man with a corkscrew con the passengers. The trio allegedly swindled others by sharing a planned scheme then fled at a station as the conductor jokes about their teamwork.
A visitor in St Lo Manche France faced no public bath. private baths are rare and water is limited to four liters. He sought hospital permission to bathe, wrote to the hospital directors, waited, and was told by letter two days later that he could bathe only if a medical ordinance justified the need. The note arrived after he had left town and finally reached him in Paris.
Within the county John E Ernst of Denver slaughtered two hogs weighing 600 and 585 pounds. Den ver sees a guinea pig boom spurred by P B Carpenter offering 30 cents each. Turnips bring 10 cents per bushel at Mount Joy and cheer households. A March sale at Ephrata saw horses fetch 666 and 700 dollars. Lancaster city honors James Buchanan for coal fund aid. Yost family oats from 1845 remain with J W Yost today.
Jack Rose Bald a.k.a. Bald will publish a series titled My Life in the Underworld in the Philadelphia North American starting December 29. The former gambler, who testified against Lt Becker and four Rosenthal killers, promises a detailed view of New York crime networks and the lives of its denizens.
The Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission has issued Bulletin No. 2 on treating ornamental chestnut trees affected by blight. It warns against fake remedies, notes experiments and research, and recommends lime sulfur or Bordeaux spraying at certain times, plus varnish or tangle foot at the base to deter insects.
Farmers begin delivering the 1912 tobacco crop to packing houses, with Lancaster County growers expected to earn over 8 million dollars despite last summer hail damage. The industry will provide work for hundreds of men during the winter season.
Lady Dorothy Nevill recounts Victoria chiding the missing mistress of the robes at a public ceremony. The queen, annoyed, offered her own magnificent watch as a rebuke and noted the duchess must have a bad watch. The piece also describes Turkish methods of telling time using compass shadows.
A witty exchange from London Tit-Bits features Jones praising his children while Brown notes the youngest will resemble him longest, prompting a quiet retort about likeness and time. The dialogue turns on family resemblance with light humor.
Dialogue reveals a rift as one party wishes to end the engagement while the other would give up the ring to avoid breaking the union. The exchange highlights emotional stakes and the value placed on the diamond token within the relationship.
A fragmentary exchange notes a painful farewell as Jenry left yesterday. Niece agrees, saying every rib aches from parting, while Fliegende Blatter supplies the wry tone.
The article surveys curiosities from early manuscripts and odd crafts including a Bible supposedly penned by Peter Bales in a walnut shell, a fly scale miniature ivory chariot, and a bee‑hidden ship. It also recounts a Queen Anne mince pie recipe and notes on metals, such as mercury’s fluidity and metal fluxion in coinage and drawing wire.
The text recalls Abyssinia where supplicants crowd before the king to beg help, a custom said to have created vagrants who cry artificial sorrow to prompt royal relief. It also mentions a butcher shop customer who, pondering mortality and fashion, asks for two pounds of alligators.
A dialogue fragment shows a tense exchange where a parent deflects criticism of a son’s French horn playing and a neighbor questions ties to a local character Cranker. The fragment hints at lingering grievances and casual insults amid everyday town life.
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