Japanese Program Highlights Young Woman's Missionary Society
The Young Woman's Missionary Society of St. Pauls Litheran Church held its first meeting in a Sunday School room decorated as a Japanese setting. Girls in Japanese costumes entertained American guests with tea and lanterns. Mrs. Harry Baker sang in Japanese as Miriam Suber shared Japanese facts and Mary Neidermyer told of a Japanese bride. Mary Kopp recounted a girl in a silk mill, Anna Steffy represented the American guest, and Maybelle Ueiter was the guest of honor. Miss Harder spoke on the work in Japan and led devotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Woman’s Missionary Society of
Harry Baker
Miriam Suber
Mary Neidermyer
Mary Kopp
BRUNNERYVILLE Church Notices and Social Visits
Rev H M Tobias lists morning and evening services at Brunneryville with Sunday morning worship at 9 and evening worship at 7 plus Christian Endeavor. The column records numerous Sunday calls and visits among families in Lititz Bird-in-Hand Mohn Town Ephrata Hopeland and Lebanon including Ober Diehm Weit Zimmerman Bare Singly Garman Sweigart Ecker Keith and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Tobias
C. EB
Harvey Ober and Sons
Mes
Irvin Keith
Phares West
Raymond Diehm
Elmer Weit
Nathaniel Weit
Lititz
John Zimmerman
Edwin Bare
Lester Bekert
Chas. Ressler
Mechanics
David Wissler
Boiling Springs
A. G. Fairtock
Mary Miley
Alice Young
Jacob Singley
Dinkard Brethren Church
Willow Street
Jesse Buchter
Parke Sweigart
Ab Mohnton
Samuel Garman
Gaved Sweigart
Clarence
Ephrata
Joshua Wolf
Dorothy
Hopeland
Clayton Weber
John Emier
Lancaster
Morris Ecker
H. Kauffman
Clarence Smith
Susan Showalter
Reinholds
Levi Risser
Emma Keith
Ralph Keith
Life companies paid record sums to policyholders in 1933
William A Law of Penn Mutual reports life insurers paid 2 175 billion to living holders and 925 million to beneficiaries in 1933, with average daily mail checks around 10 million. He credits conservative accounting and steady premium flow for maintaining assets above 21.0 billion despite the era's strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Law
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Law
Life Compan Wiliam A. Tawnies
Institution of
Life Insurance
Local residents share weekend visits and calls across Lititz area
Mr and Mrs Joannie Miss Mary Zook and Ruth Ha Becker of Lititz spent Sunday afternoon with Mass Anna Martin. Many neighbors including the Buchers Wisslers Seiberts Witmers and Burkholders visited relatives. Several calls occurred around Harrisburg and Linita as families extended weekend social rounds with Mrs Annie Harhart slowly improving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joannie
Mary Zook
Ruth Habecker
Lititz
Anna Martin
Henry Bucher
Hannah
Eroma Wissler
Lincoln
Lavina Seibert
Samuel Burkholder
Farmersville
Burkholder
Francis Marhart
Annie Harhart
Caroline Ranck
Lizzie Gibbel
William Seibert
Annie Lutz
Linita
Abram Strickler
Jacob Kreider
Ancient Babylon and Egypt Pharmacology
The article notes that sixty centuries ago physicians and pharmacists worked separately in Babylonia. The Ebers Papyrus of 1552 B C in Egypt listed hundreds of remedies and about 700 drugs known to Egyptians, many of which remained in common use at that time.
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Babylonia
Egypt
Loftiest of Caribbees and Dominca’s Historic Notes
Loftiest of Caribbees TDoerminis claims the title as the loftiest of the Caribbees. The text describes the Caribs as the last indigenous people of the Antilles, once fierce cannibals, now peaceful. It notes Rodney’s 1782 defeat of De Grasse and Dominca as a leading lime producing country with Toscau as its main port and capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tdoerminis
Antilles
Rodney
de Grasse
Dominica
Toscau
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Brunneryville
Kate Weachter
Ida Gockley
Roy Eckert
Lebanon
Monroe Beckert
Earl Spangler and Sons
Lexington
John Flory
Vera Peiffer
Alvin Witmer
Levi Hemley
Christ Stauffer
Abram Burkholder
John Peiffer
Harrisburg
Pauline Young
Lizzie Kemper
Tizzie Risser
Mary West
Carvie Diehm
Joseph Bomberger
Fannie Bealer
David Brandl
Rufus Kline
Anna Stevenson
John Enck
Anna Mary Seibert
Clayton
Henry Risser
Christ Risser
Fiv
Fratville
Florence Gibbel
Henry Gibbel
Ligaie Gibbel
Melvin Hess
Tess’ Church
Weicher Seibert
Myr
Kodak
Mazda
Wertsch
Amos
Heinz
Gang
Cans
Snowil
Libby
China
Brazil
Lanco News
Dietrich’s
Spruce Street
General
General Electric
Montaly
Roy $ Reidenbaugh
West Main Street
Pennsylvania Power & Light Co
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