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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1930
Page
8
The County Committee of the American Legion meets at Garden Spot Post No 56 next Thursday after Lititz Post monthly meeting. National Commander Bodenheimer speaks in Lancaster at noon next Friday, a Hotel Brunswick dinner. Tickets available from county committeemen or post commander. No Full Moon in February 1866 noted as remarkable.
The Denver and Ephrata Telephone and Telegraph Company held its annual meeting on Saturday naming W. F. Brossman as President D. W. Artz as Secretary D. W. Buch as Treasurer C B E Baby as Vice President and General Manager Bertha M. Brossman as Assistant Secretary and J C Nissley Monroe Lausch as Directors The 1929 report shows 156 new stations 2605 subscribers and higher gross receipts Improvements include a semi selective ringing system at Latttn and 23000 feet of sable replaced open wires The objective for 1980 is courteous accurate prompt service with results reflecting progress and growth
John Edwards fifty six of Hopeland died from a fractured skull after being struck along the road to the Ephrata and Lebanon trolley station at Hopeland. Driver John Kauffman twenty five Hopeland said he did not see Edwards. bystanders helped move the body to Dr Long’s office where Edwards died. He leaves a son Paoli and several siblings. funeral at his son Paul’s home then Hopeland A B church.
In the early days of steam railroads, New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia ran cars through urban areas pulled by horses. Outside city limits engines were removed, strong horses attached, and cars moved slowly through the cities. This method likely occurred in other population centers as well.
A reflective quip from the Atchison Globe mocks constant worry about time ending. The writer questions the urgency of knowing when life ends and notes personal mortality may arrive sooner than any cosmic end.
Franklin Street resident Harry Findley recounts severe neuritis that left him homebound and unable to walk without a cane. After trying various treatments, Konjola relieved his pain in under a month and improved his overall health, with sales noted at L. N. Moyer's Drug Store in Lititz and other regional druggists.
A columnist notes that laws burden those who neglect their own affairs while the law rarely inconveniences a man who tends to his business, reflecting a pragmatic view in the Atchison Globe.
An Austrian asserts he created a tiny davies occupying under twelve cubic inches that can be switched on to silence all noise. He alleges once active, it prevents tearing one's wife from sermons.
A historical note claims the earliest stage impersonation by a woman appeared in Othello affording mixed reception as gender roles evolved on the English stage.
A columnist notes that women pay to see the fat woman at the circus to witness someone in a worse fix than their own. The remark frames public fascination with body size as comparative misery.
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