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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
2
While Joseph Myers cut wheat at Wiota York county a rabbit ran over the knives into the canvas and was taken up with the wheat bound in the sheaf The bundle was pitched out and the rabbit freed running away unhurt.
Sailor Jim White of the U S Navy wowed audiences at Reading and Lebanon last week. In Reading he dragged a seven and a half ton chemical engine by teeth for 125 feet crossing a trolley track. In Lebanon he split a deck of cards with a bite and snapped two spikes flush with a trestle.
Harvey 5 Binder a Reading railroad brakeman risked his life to save 9 year old Joseph Hartline of Boyertown. While the freight locomotive moved backward toward the boy Binder hung from the tender and with one arm hurled the child off the track. The boy escaped unhurt though Binder was nearly pulled under the wheels.
A swarm of bees settled on a bush near the diamond during a Dun Canville game. Boys released a bee from a beer keg, prompting bees to move into the improvised hive Samuel Keller carried home. Bees now filling it with honey.
A Valley passenger train from Hazeltom to Bethlehem collided with three deer near Weatherly. The train struck one deer as it attempted to cross the rails. the animal reeled but quickly got up.
A deer raced ahead of a Lehigh Valley train bound for Hazleton and Weatherly, slipping into the woods when the engine tired, while passengers watched the chase unfold along the oncoming line.
Hard Lucx William Fryer near Krimberton in Chester county endures a week of accidents. A horse is seriously injured by an insect bite, Fryer falls and is cut, Mrs. Fryer breaks a bone, a cow’s twins die, and another horse breaks its neck after becoming entangled in a halter.
The article argues each businessperson should switch from a vigilant daytime self to a social after hours self once the desk lid closes. By separating selves he can rest the business self and sleep eighteen hours out of twenty four, enabling him to endure vast strain without risking a nervous breakdown.
The piece notes a Texas find of rich graphite once bought for 12 dollars an acre by a rancher who sold seven acres for 75 000 dollars. It mentions graphite deposits at Ticonderoga New York and mines in Bavaria Bohemia Norway New Zealand and Mexico. The rancher still owns 1125 acres and fishes catfish from a Colorado river hole.
Postmaster Young announces a free city delivery system for Manheim to be installed October 1 covering the entire town.
Agent Bucher returned from Michigan with carloads of registered Holstein cows for Mt. Joy farmers. He plans another trip soon to continue similar purchases for local producers.
Mrs Roy Heisey of Elizabethtown and herboarder Frank Cruiseran were reported missing. Heisey, 18, lived with her husband and two children several miles east of Elizabethtown.
George W. Bollman owner of the Bollman hat factory and hosiery shop at Adamstown shuts factories for two days and ferries his workers by automobile to his Lehigh County farm to relieve a labor shortage.
George Maderness aged 20 of Reinholds Station was electrocuted at Lavine Refractories Co in Womelsdorf a live 13 000 volt wire passing through his body He had worked for the company over a year and his death was confirmed by a local physician. Farm lands on the lower Susquehanna islands idle this year with sizes listed for several owners and islands. Quarryville Shoe Co Lansing to halt two weeks for expansion work freeing about 15 workers to help harvest crops as farmers eagerly welcomed labor for the season.
Mrs. Eliza Eberly of Ephrata aged nine ty years has recovered from illness and enjoys walking and autoing. Bart Spangler of Marietta, ninety eight, active in mercantile business, has just returned from trips to New York Philadelphia and Baltimore to purchase goods for the fall and win…
Chester Stein 15 son of Mr and Mrs C V Stein near Manheim sustained a broken back July 5 when knocked down by mules and a wagon. He underwent an operation at Lancaster General Hospital last Thursday and is expected to recover fully over the coming months though currently paralyzed in both legs. He remains hospitalized for several months.
A Rochester Democrat and Chronicle piece traces Johnny Appleseed's seed planting legacy in the Ohio valley and honors Charles Linthrop Pack as the Johnny Appleseed of forestry. It contrasts their missions to conserve and replant forests, urging public action to sustain the effort.
A New York banker's daughter faces pressure from her father after a youthful suitor confesses his love but cites his low salary. The banker surprises him by approving their marriage, urging the match as a duty for a sensible man. Hazel is the daughter, the suitor is unnamed, and the scene unfolds on a river of uncertain prospects.
The Lancaster Examin er and New Era notes that based on decennial censuses and current crop values the county remains a leading agricultural area. It contrasts land area and crop totals with Los Angeles and McLean counties, credits Congressman Griest and Director Durand, and cites the 1909 crop value tests and 1970 stock contributions.
George W. Hensel reports in the Philadelphia North American that tobacco contracts in Lancaster county run 26 cents a pound with expected sales around 80 cents a pound before December 15. He cites a surge as tobacco men from distant countries visit, forecasting big actions in Lancaster by January 1, 1921.
A fragment from the American Legion Weekly quotes an officer asking where all the shots are and a nervous recruit replying that they seem to miss. The passage reflects a wartime training scene and patrol dialogue with wartime slang.
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