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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1925
Page
3
Bart Rogers hides in a desk cubby while Legion raiders clear out the station. A long night passes as the train departs and a stealthy intruder creps toward the safe. The scene conveys relief and tense anticipation after a sweep.
Bart Rogers and the Bellaine residents reap justice as Leon Barrows admits guilt in murder and forgery schemes. Bull Frankiston confirms the cyanide plan while Bart secures Barrows’ confession and clears Anita Morrison’s father. The town resets with a new era of law and order.
A Russian exile recounts life in a remote Yakutsk province settlement named Arctic Tobinson Crusoe. He describes six houses housing 22 people, 300 miles to the next village, 4,000 miles to the railway, and no postal service with letters taking years to reach Yakutsk.
A dialogue between an artist and a critic reveals a blunt assessment. The critic dismisses the latest work as worthless, while the artist presses for an honest verdict despite the sting of the critique.
A breezy customer questions the freshness of eggs in a new Boston grocery. The grocer replies that fresh eggs are always nice and that his stock today matters, prompting the customer to threaten to shop elsewhere.
A reader thanks city authorities for quarantining his family for three weeks due to smallpox. He notes his wife sewed, they had three meals daily, slept well, and a cousin with four children fled town after seeing the smallpox sign on their door. This letter appeared in Hygeia.
An engraver in Washington printing shops cashed a new twenty dollar yellowback note on a New York hotel bill. The clerk refused, thinking the bill fake, and the engraver revealed he had printed it last week. The clerk summoned the house detective Forbes Magazine.
A Youth's Companion summary notes grasshoppers as edible across cultures. Fabre and Daumas are cited on grasshoppers and similar insects as human and animal food, describing preparation methods and cultural attitudes from camels to prophets wives.
A columnist recalls a conversation about New York street speech, noting the “lower East side New Yorkese” as similar in flavor to Somersetshire or Venetian dialects and placing the scene near the Woolworth tower in Manhattan.
Two novices played golf when one sliced into a deep bunker and vanished. The second found the other seated on a hammock outside the bunker, with the niblick overheated as he explained the delay.
The biological survey notes market hunters were probably the direct cause of passenger pigeon extinction. The birds nested in colonies in certain areas, allowing hunters to wipe out large numbers with little effort. Some traditions blame forest fires in roosting woods for additional losses.
Emil Frey, later president of Switzerland from 1894 to 1897, served as a sergeant in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was captured at Gettysburg and held at Libby Prison.
Professional cards offer conveyancers scriveners real estate and insurance agents deeds wills mortgages and all legal papers promptly drawn. Clerking of sales and decedents estates settlement services by GEO. L. KEITH Notary Public at 18 Lincoln Ave Lititz Pa.
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