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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1921
Page
2
Jeremiah Swambach of the Unami Fishing Club in Emaus caught a 20 inch black bass weighing nearly five pounds in the Perkiomen Creek at Palm. The fish is described as the banner catch of the season.
Veterans captain J H Druckenmiller of Sayre and president of the 79th Pennsylvania Volunteers attends the annual reunion. An old Lancaster man, his long-time home was in Marietta.
A motherless fawn found near Lehigh Gap was captured by James Geary at Slatington and cared for in a chicken pen. Local boys gathering huckleberries first met the deer which approached them playfully before entering the yard and being bottle-fed milk.
Squire T Van C Phillips of West town has acquired a one gallon earthen still of ancient manufacture. The Webb family previously owned it and it is believed to have been used by Richard or William Webb of Kennett township around 1700. It is Pennsylvania pottery likely from Londongrove with glazing fresh as if recent.
The article urges readers to practice thrift habitually as a daily routine. It stresses systematizing life, following a definite schedule, saving regularly, planning work to avoid idle time, and viewing thrift as a path to success and progress. It cites Disraeli on readiness and frames thrift as ongoing, not episodic.
The column warns a New York merchant living near the Exchange and Broad Street that if he does not repay £10 within 14 days a full narrative of the transaction with his name will be published with an affidavit. It adds that any overtures to Mr Boole at Mrs Haights in Smith Street will be kept secret.
The piece traces early coin sizes from gigantic copper pennies to the shift to smaller currency. It notes gold use in Egypt as rings weighed for value but not coined. It then lauds the rose as a universal beloved flower, present in literature across ages and nations.
About 156 blue herons have set up in a wooded area near Denver and make daily trips to Chesapeake Bay for fish to feed their young. Urban H Hershey, a York musician long based in Mannheim, plans a European tour across France Spain Germany Switzerland and Italy. A lightning strike at John Newcomer's in Pequea township killed a 20 pound white turkey gobbler during a storm. Mr and Mrs John A Stamm of Los Angeles California visited their native East Donegal and Marietta areas by car and will return the same way.
A heavy storm toppled a landmark sycamore on Harry Herr’s Eden township farm. Seymour Eckman found a monkey faced owl nest in the uprooted tree, with three young owlets inside.
A teacher presses a child to repeat the letter a in many words. Growing weary, the child bluntly asks if the teacher has not learned the sound himself. This brief exchange captures a humorous moment of classroom frustration.
Lititz resident E. G. Witters reports kidney trouble eased after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He cites back and loins pain, frequent urine, and sleepless nights improved. He bought from J. E. Charles Drug Store and praises the remedy, noting initial relief in 1914 and renewed cure by 1919. 60c at dealers Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
Four thousand dollars worth of Lancaster county poultry were shipped from Lancaster to New York and then by vessel to Vera Cruz, Mexico. Buyers from Mexico City selected 347 head of stock from champion lines owned by Charles A. Ream of the Pennsylvania Poultry Farm, with plans to start an extensive ranch near Mexico City using the Lancaster birds as nucleus.
In Labrador a man sent word to a distant brother by tying a message to a board and releasing a dog team. The lead dog pulled the board over the snow as the entire team chased, delivering the message in rapid fashion.
A discussion of Rudyard Kipling's sea serpent imagery likened to medieval archbishop Mugang's grim description. The piece also traces Bo Peep origins from English folklore linking bo peep to friars and the decline of monasteries, with later shifts to a feminine figure.
A humorous dialogue between characters Wise Guy and Simple Mug appears in the Read the Record column. It riffs on relative values and social norms with playful banter about cigars and mutual surprises. The snippet promotes Read the Record at $1.50 a year.
The United States Geological Survey says ancient copper tempering was not superior to modern copper. Rolling and alloying harden copper, and examined specimens labeled as tempered copper show no greater hardness than contemporary copper or simple copper alloys.
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