July and August Community Picnics and Reunions
A long list of summer gatherings at Lititz Springs and surrounding parks includes annual picnics reunions and fairs across July and August. Events feature churches unions bands and civic groups in Lititz Ephrata Reading Lancaster and nearby towns with many picnics at Lititz Springs and joint celebrations at parks.
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Lititz Springs Park
Ephrata Park
S. S
Reading
Lititz Springs
Lancaster
Salem U. B
Columbia
Advent Lutheran S. L
Pt EE
Otterbein U. S
Akron Union U. S
Kilhefner
St. John’s’ Lutheran U. S
Brickerville
St. John
Fire Co
Stevens
Bareville
Mishler
Knights of Malta
St. Stephen's Tuberan S. A
Kopp
Princes of Bagdad
Pienic
Lancaster New Era
Allentown
Lititz
Wire Co
Reamstown
Muddy Creek Union
Swartzville
Andes
Lancaster Moravian
St. Luke
Wenger
Oberholtzer
Brownstown Union U. S
West Chester
Pottsville
Trenton
Oet
York
Doylestown
Lancaster County
Lutheran Church
Manheim
Atlantic City
N. J
Garden Spot tomato planting expands as canneries assist
Across the county the tomato planting season begins with growers setting out plants much smaller than usual while some canneries supply specially grown plants to speed early harvests. The industry has grown yearly with new canneries and increased production.
Elizabeth Eberly of Ephrata Dies at 97
Mrs Elizabeth Eberly widow of Isaac Eberly and oldest resident of Ephrata died at her home on Church Avenue in Ephrata after rheumatic fever. She was 97 years, seven months and twenty seven days. Surviving daughters are Mrs Ella Wilhelm of Myerstown and Anna and Mary at home. Funeral Thursday at 10 from her home with Brethren Church services and Denver Cemetery burial. A final note: an Altoona sportsman sent 25 dollars to the Game Commission for cooking a pheasant out of season in 1921, signed or not, as a penance.
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Elizabeth Eberly
Ephrata Womaett
Elizabeth
Weinhold) Eberly
Isaac Eberly
Ephrata
Brethren Church
Denver
Altoona
Seth E. Gordon
Game Commission
Harrisburg
Red Blooded Heroes in Novels Stressed as Acceptable
A cultural note discusses how red blooded heroes in novels can be permissible when violence is restrained. It argues readers accept bold, masculine protagonists as long as gore remains minimal and narrative purpose is clear.
Elk and deer sightings amid forest life in Northwestern Pennsylvania
State Game Commission efforts bring elk into Foconus and other districts where they thrive as motorists report many animals this summer. Cats killing birds and rabbits in woods, prompting “Save the Birds” notices. Deer seen near Lakeside and Bear Creek areas, with wardens predicting good hunting next fall. A Williamsport graduate rode 6,509 miles on horseback over four school years, from home to Hughesville High. A. S. Wertz raises a day-old fawn found near White Deer on a nursing bottle.
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Foconus
State Game Commission
Pennsylvania
Harry Meiss
Ile
Lakeside
Wilkes-Barre
Bear , Creek
Games
Pauline Hessler
Williamsport
Hughesville
Miss Hessler
A. S. Wertz
Mr. Wertz
Farm Calendar sprays and poultry profits outline farming tips
Agricultural notes urge spraying potatoes as soon as sprouts reach a few inches to boost yields. Aphids threaten potato crops and require Bordeaux mixture with insecticide or soap. flea and potato beetles call for lead arsenate. Poultry culling advised for hens in moult to boost profits. Hog pastures praised for exercise, parasite control, cheaper gains, and higher overall hog quality and profitability.
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Man
State College
Grebe Feeds On Its Own Feathers, Baffles Researchers
The North American grebe reportedly consumes large amounts of its own feathers as a dietary quirk, per Dr. Alexander Wetmore's study for the Bureau of Biological Survey. The birds nest in decaying vegetation, hatchlings ride on the mother’s feathers, and researchers note the stomachs are filled with a mix of feathers, fish, and insects.
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Detroit News
Alexander Wetmore
Bureau of Biological Survey
Wetmore
Chicks Become Expert Swimmers Hidden by Water Vegetation
In a few days the young birds become proficient swimmers and hide among water plants making observation nearly impossible until they are about three quarters grown.
Smelling Salts and Fainting the Body's Alarm
Smelling salts trigger the respiratory center at the brain base. Irritated nerves prompt deeper breathing, increasing oxygen to the blood and restoring consciousness after a fainting episode.
Rare throat disease in sanatorium case study
In Ten Years' Experience in a Sanitorium by the Medical Research Council Sir St. Clair Thompson recalls a unique case of an accountant with a husky voice due to a laryngeal aspergillosis. Small millet seed like black bodies were seen under the microscope and the patient was cured. The disease is mainly found in birds, including ducks geese fowls pigeons and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical Research Council
St. Clair Thompson
Beelzebub: From Ekron to Jewish Devil Lore
Beelzebub, meaning lord of flies, was the Ekronite god Baal worshiped as such. Jews linked all heathen deities to devils and called Beelzebub the prince of demons. Milton’s Paradise Lost places Hell alongside Satan in power.
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Beelzebub
Milton
Heelzeit
Satan
Ikangas City
First lighthouse built by Egypt on Pharos island
Egypt receives credit for the first lighthouse at Pharos in Alexandria built by Ptolemy II about 660 BCE. The 60 foot tower stood as a monument until the sea washed it away in the fourteenth century. Lighting evolved from open wood fires to coal beacons, then tallow candles, oil lamps with reflectors, Argand burners, and incandescent mantles shaping modern lighthouse illumination.
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Egypt
Pharos
Alexandria
Ptolemy II
South Foreland
Eddystone
Mersey Channel
Creature of Mystery Found in Ant Colony
A mysterious one-inch an inch and a half long creature lumbers at the rear of African driver ant columns. It resembles a tiny elephant, guarded by five to six ants, and may be the colony queen. Professor RL Garner notes it is unclassified and rarely captured, with no definitive sex identification.
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Garner
Century Magazine
Germany
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W. H. Buch
Fire House
Lititz, Pa
Harvard
Charles A. Miller
Seaman Place
Massachusetts
Millersville Normal School
Franklin and Marshall College
Rothsville High School
Willys-Overland
Overland
Milady
Keystone
Henry W. Shoemaker
Jane Stephen
Restless Oaks
Martin G
Brumbaugh
Germantown
Juniata College
Huntingdon
Church of the Brethren
Mary Cameron Packer
James
Packer
Sunbury
Miss Packer
Presbyterian Hospital
Philadelphia
National Park School
Washington, D. C
Serenas Hime
Chester County
Giffice
Ralph Spacht
U.S
United States
Royal Cord
Royal
U. S
Jerre K. Adams
Harry Z. Erl
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