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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1912
Page
8
Rates of advertising are listed with measurements and prices for the Record in Lititz Lancaster County Pa. Transient ads must be prepaid and ready by Wednesday noon for same day insertion. Job work is available and communications should be sent to the Record Office in Lititz.
Members of the Lancaster County Newspaper Publishers Association and guests visited Lititz for a day of touring local industries. They inspected the Moravian church cemetery Linden Hall Seminary the trap and shoe factories print shops and the Springs Hotel. A fishing mishap yielded a 14 pound eel and a 14 pound snapper turtle.
The obituary notes the funeral service at Hopeland LL B church for the deceased, with ministers from Columbia Penbrook and Hopeland leading the burial and church tributes from his associations and employer Eby Shoe Co. The article then shifts to a weather summary and a series of storm damage reports across Lititz and nearby areas. A lightning strike damaged a barn in Rome and a tree on another farm. A large fire near Neffsville destroyed a residence, barn, and tobacco shed, with five acres of hay burning and two horses two cows and four hogs killed. No insurance coverage cited.
A 35 year old Italian boarding house keeper shot and killed two fellow countrymen at his Miners Village home near Cornwall Lebanon County. He fled possibly toward Lancaster leaving uncalled for letters at Lititz post office. The report notes his appearance and clothing and urges readers to contact for travel planning services.
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