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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1911
Page
6
Obscure essay by Charles Askin in Outing explains quail shooting challenges. A rising bird and rapid changes in direction demand precise aiming and swift shooting to adapt to unpredictable angles. The article highlights cover shooting as the key skill and urges keeping the gun near the bird at break and firing as soon as sighted.
In hot Brazilian regions rats trouble households and cats fail to thrive, so Gibola or giboias, small nonvenomous constrictors, are kept indoors for rat control. They sleep at stairs and roam at night, selling for $1 to $5 in Bahia and Pernambuco, and reportedly return home when moved.
A playful exchange in Detroit Saturday Night features a youth negotiating a long distance rate with a telephone clerk. The youth jokes he is not on speaking terms with the lady, counting out 2.50 as he ponders the 3 dollar 4 minute rate.
A terse domestic exchange is cited in a court record as Mrs Leeder Norah questions repetition of conversations with her husband during a minor quarrel. The fragmentary text shows a back and forth on behavior within a household dispute.
A Milwaukee News joke about a rich uncle leaving a widow, juxtaposed with a Baltimore American remark about the harsh stance of the newly wealthy. The quip highlights social tensions around wealth and propriety in a humorous tone.
A New York Press excerpt extols disciplined drill as decisive, citing Charles XII of Sweden who valued 1,000 well drilled fighters over 10,000. It recalls Charles XI’s night stand against 8,000 with 600 troops, who rose in darkness to rout Russians and Poles by daylight.
In a heated encounter Tom Osborne, a bookseller, clashed with Dr. Johnson over a delay. Johnson struck with a large folio, pinning Osborne to the floor and taunting him with the line Lie there, thou son of dullness, ignorance and obscurity. The scene drew family alarm as the pair confronted the dispute.
A Nuremberg museum director arrives to claim artifacts in a village near Nuremberg but is told the town has no room for the museum after already hosting a bearded woman a trained dog troupe a theatrical company of apes a band of Hungarian musicians and merry go rounds.
The article describes Greenland as highly exclusive with icy terrain and restricted access. It states permission must come from Denmark and notes state control of trade, monopoly on commerce, and fixed food prices to protect Greenlanders from unscrupulous merchants.
A humorous exchange about husbands and their evening excuses. The hostess notes her husband makes up reasons to stay downtown while the caller recalls her husband who keeps a numbered list of excuses and calls out a number on return.
A compact collection of quips and witticisms touching marriage, in laws, and daily life. Jests include a boastful husband who never spends a night away, a new house owner who must furnish the furniture, and a string of light quips about well known figures and common mishaps.
A New York Tribune piece recalls European hotel beds with strict steps and towering eiderdown. An American traveler endures a leap into Turkey red comfort, then awakes from a cliff dream in a German inn. In Sorento, royal rooms wait at no extra charge, sharing pillows with historic dignitaries.
In Current Literature a statistician and heredity student Professor R J Ewart argues sex balance is a statistical problem. He says women's power rises in cycles of supremacy then declines, with a mechanism regulating male female birth ratios amid wars and upheavals, likening it to a gyroscope returning to balance.
In a wry exchange a man asks why bachelors are wealthier than married men. The sharp tongued damsel replies that the poor marry and the rich remain single, and that men are likelier to share little with a wife than their earnings.
A Saco historian credits Waddock’s Ordinary as Maine’s first public hotel built in 1054 near Old Orchard. The tavern, erected by Henry Waddock, stood close to the crescent beach’s modern summer hostels along the Kennebec Journal coastline.
A brief humorous exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer features a child recounting an incident with the neighbor's doctor’s boy. The child sticks out his tongue and is told the boy called the tongue badly coated.
A Pittsborg Post note quotes a doctor urging eight residents to quit rathskellers and spend more time in nature, with a reply preferring to stay in the prim room.
A compiled list of local organizations in Lititz with meeting times and venues. Lodges and clubs including Lititz Castle No 10 A O of M G meet Saturdays in Rudy's Hall at 7 80 PM. Lititz Lodge No 33 K of P and others meet in Rudy's Hall or Lititz Hall with varied evenings through the week.
Bus timetables list Lancaster Lititz and Manheim departures with frequent hourly services from early morning to evening. Saturday and Sunday adjustments show extra morning departures and mixed half hour spacing.
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