Community weekend events list at Lititz Springs and area
A long schedule of events at Lititz Springs and nearby locales runs from July 31 to September with picnics reunions and fairs. Highlights include Picnies at Lititz Springs, Allentown Womens Band concerts, Fire Co Carnivals at Reamstown and Adamstown, various reunions and picnics at Ephrata Park Rothsville Lititz Springs and other venues, plus major fairs in West Chester Reading Pottsville and Trenton. A secondary note recounts beavers rebuilding the Mosquito creek Blackwell dam with large timbers and stone-and-mud work, indicating substantial effort and a dam two hundred feet long.
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Zem Zem Siesta No
Princes of Bagdad
Lancaster
Lititz Springs
Faith Reformed
Honeybrook Picnie
Picnie
Tancaster New Era
Ephrata Park
Allentown
MiCalvary Lutheran S
Lancas
Leola
Mechunsburg
Fire Co
Adamstown
Wenger
Lititz Union
Springs
Oberholtzer
Stuber
Rothsville Union S S
Myer
Rohrerstown
S. S
Witmer
Gantz
Butzer
St Andrews
Keath
Litite Springs
Reamstown
Mondag
Frymyer
Elser-Oberlin
West Chester
Pottsville
Reading Fair
Allentown Fair
Trenton
Henters
Mosquito Creek
Blackwell Dam
Sahara Desert Not Cold Peak Snow Facts
Researchers note the Sahara Desert itself does not reach freezing. In the Ahaggar plateau there are 8000 foot peaks where snow falls from December through March, indicating high elevations can host winter conditions despite overall desert heat.
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Sahara Desert
Ahaggar Plateau
Sahara
Widow Receives 500 Dollar Amnesty Aerial Circus Aid
Mrs Anna Bowman widow of Edward Bowman receives a 500 dollar gift from Ambulance Company No 111 and the Behmer Air Service the proceeds from a recent aerial circus held in the Garden Spot locality Bowmans death followed an air crash at Rossmere on July 10 Bowman was a member of the two groups the wording notes.
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Anna Bowman
Edward Bowman
Rossmere
Local Doctor Claims Cure For Seasickness
Dr J Sherman reports successful practical tests of a seasickness cure after a New York to Florida boat trip. The simple apparatus reportedly overcomes severe seasickness in less than five minutes in most cases, with several passengers piloted through symptoms during the voyage.
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J. Sherman
North Duke Street
New York
Florida
75-Cent Investment Nets 599.25 Profit
A Paradise township resident sold two heirloom desks to a New Jersey buyer for 600 dollars after the elderly owner’s son inherited the items. River coal dredging continues along the Hollywood dam with 10 to 15 carloads daily. Wildlife trapping and a long running sky farm supply the veteran hunter’s health and routine, aiding hundreds of birds and other creatures.
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Jacob Hildebrand
Paradise Township
Ross
Willoughby Farr
Edgewater
N. J
Holiwood Dam
Columbia
Hipoad
Lancaster
Oldtiow
Esstern
Moore
If She Had Knowed A Queer Inglish Moment In Court
A New York court inquiry into a family quarrel features a wife's cry about knowing more now than in the past. The remark references legal proceedings and a strained domestic scene in a clipped historic voice.
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New York
Oston Transcript
Poets Draw the Line in Red Bone Weekly
The Red bone Weekly quips that catching wandering poets is easy but keeping them busy is hard. It argues their only boast is minor talent and calls that “nothin’ at all” in the broader literary world.
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the Redbone Weekly
Tord
Mortgage Delay Blocks Power Plant Land Purchase
An old 1250 pound mortgage, 132 years old, halts a $35,006,000 purchase of land on the west bank of the Susquehanna near Sunbury for a Pennsylvania Power and Light Company project. James H. Smmell estate and Wade H. Kruse of Allentown hold the option as title searchers work. Sunbury chosen for water access to rolling large generators serving Harrisburg Reading and Philadelphia.
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Susquehanna River
Sunbury
Pennsylvania Power and F Light Company
James H. Smmell
Wade H. Kruse
Allentown
Plens
Harrisburg
Reading
Philadelphia
Susquehanna
Ligonier Gas Drill Reaches New Depths Without Strike
Drillers from Peoples Natural Gas Co. near Ligonier have bored about 7,000 feet into the earth seeking gas but report no production yet. The operation, four years in, is the deepest gas drill, with geologists hopeful gas will be found after more drilling. The long effort has lined the well with 114 tons of casing but yielded no gas to date.
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Ligonier
Peoples Natural Gas Company of
Pittsburgh
Tomato fruit setting delays due to heavy rain and cool nights
The article notes late tomato sets from excessive rains and cool nights, with many plants losing first and second fruit clusters. It advises growers tomatoes will be very late and highlights grape rot prevention with Bordeaux mixture, aphid control on truck crops using nicotine dust, and poultry house ventilation and water sanitation tips for healthier stock.
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State College
School Ofgriculture
Mr Crow the Corn Puller Pays Way by Eating Bugs
The piece argues against anti crow campaigns funded by an ammunition firm. It cites E R Kalmbach noting hysteria should not drive policy. It highlights crows eating large numbers of pests and the beneficial value they provide in reducing grasshoppers and related insects.
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Mr. Crow
Bugs
Bespisers of Mankird quote from Dickens on flattery
A Dickens quotation contrasts two types of people. It notes that those who earn and deserve admiration are rare, while others crave adulation despite recognizing their own worthlessness. The passage contrasts sincere merit with hollow praise.
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Charles Dickens
Only Proof of Power Quote by Ebert Hubbard
A quotation attributed to Ebert Hubbard asserts that true leadership proves itself by not lamenting the stupidity of helpers ingratitude of the public or lack of appreciation. It frames adversity as part of life and defines power as remaining steadfast without discouragement in face of public scorn.
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Ebert Hubbard
Ruskin’s Voice As Ruskin’s Only Attraction
Frank Harris in American Mercury notes Ruskin’s outward appears unrevealing and frail yet his voice reveals a rare power. Though slight and unassuming in person, the slender high tenor becomes the instrument through which the man’s inner passion and moral fervor emerge.
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Ruskin
Frank Harris
American Mercury
Birth of Christ and the dating of the Christian era
A medieval monk Dionysius Exiguus first set the Christian era around 582 but birth dates remain speculative. The calendar later fixed December 23 as a potential birth date yet changing the era proved impractical. Modern belief places Jesus’ birth three to four years before the start of the era, yielding a four year discrepancy.
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Dionysius Hxiguus
Christ
Jesus
B. C
Thinnest Visible Thread Described in Quartz Fiber
The article explains that the thinnest thread visible to the human eye is so minute that a thousand such threads laid end to end would rival the diameter of a woman's hair. These ultra fine threads are produced from melted quartz.
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Meat and
W. H. Buch
Lititz, Pa
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the County
Og of
Earl Brimmer
Hunsecker
Manheim Township
Conestoga River
Burd’s Cross Roads
Intercourse
White Horse
Rhine Hershey
Atown
Ager
Keystone Exchanges
Phoenixville
Wilkes-Barre
Joe Birstan
Hillsdale
Joe
Gable
Whitestown
Yeshao Haei
Neward & Nelson Millers
Galestown
Nelson
E. R. Kalmbach
United States Biological Survey
Nature Magazine
Washington D. C
Birth of Christ
Record Printing House
R. Louis Pasteur
Thermbroke
Hes Soli
Inc
Ralph M. Spacht
Funer
Extitz
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