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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1912
Page
2
State health officials launch a nationwide anti fly campaign citing math of fly reproduction. Dr. Lucius P. Brown warns screens and fly poisons prevent millions in August as overwintering females lay eggs through the summer leading to vast future populations.
Separate trousers for men from 6 to 4.50. This item highlights the release of new spring and summer apparel featuring men’s trousers offered at affordable prices, signaling a fresh inventory push.
In Mount Joy Mrs Lillie Hershey and her three children and three grandchildren were all born in the same house, a rare multi generation birth record. Miss Margaret Spence of Columbia killed a copperhead over three and a half feet long along Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. S. W. Swisher of Lancaster, a Civil War veteran, is a longtime Mason and owned large Colerain farms, served 25 years as Justice of the Peace. The Susquehanna River’s 400 foot fishing limit removal benefits fishermen, with two men netting 2000 shad in one day. Charles A. Jeffries of Lancaster has worked longer for the Pennsylvania Railroad than any other employee, 66 years, starting as a fireman in 1846 and moving through engineer and signal roles.
The annual Feast of Roses event at Zion Lutheran Church Manheim will occur Sunday June 9. Morning memorial services feature Rev George M Diffen derfer of Carlisle on True Religious Conservatism. Afternoon includes memorial address by Rev J A Singmaster D D Gettysburg and Dr I H Betz York. Amanda Landis Millersville will recite and H Edgar Shorts Lancaster will pay the red rose rental.
The Daily Texts annual, long published by the Moravian Church for 182 years, appears in English German French Esthenian Dutch Finnish Danish Swedish Bohemian Italian Negro English and Eskimo. Christians across these lands use its Old Testament watch-word and New Testament doctrinal text. An incident ties Prince Bismarck’s morning reading to his France peace talks, as recalled by Prince Reuss to Rev. Herman Erxleben. Frueauff is noted as a French professor at the Allen town Francis M. Steitler School.
Dr Charles C Hill urged at the 68th annual meeting of the American Medico-Psychological Society that excess water is not harmless. He warned it can remain in the stomach, cause tissue swelling and nutrition loss, and quoted health writers promoting excessive water as unsafe. He contrasted water with alcohol and noted widespread hypochondria fueling water intemperance. Have you secured a chautauqua ticket.
A Middletown Journal item recounts Jake from Mt Joy who trained a new auto to stop but instead shot from his garage into a garden bed and struck a tree. He yelled whoa as onlookers laughed, and the incident ended with Jake furious at the outburst.
Tilghman 8 Cooper & Sons held a Jersey cow sale at Linden Grove Stock Farm Coopersburg near Allentown. Sultan's Golden Jolly fetched no price, the highest bid ever for a Jersey, while total sales reached 78,925 dollars from 161 animals averaging 490 dollars. Warder's Farm Beauty sold for 3,200 and other top lots included Oxford Lad's Granddaughter and Vesta's Daisy.
Lloyds Weekly in London published a condensed list of Titanic provisioning. It details 75,000 pounds of fresh meat 35,000 fresh eggs 25,000 pounds of poultry 40 tons of potatoes 1,500 gallons of fresh milk 1,000 quarts of fresh cream 5 tons of sugar 250 barrels of flour 10,000 pounds of cereals 12,000 bottles of mineral water 15,000 bottles of ale and stout 1,000 bottles of wines. A staff of 475 under the chief steward supplied cooking and service for passengers and cabins. In Lancaster County church attic a year ago 10,000 cigars stolen from John B. Fralch’s factory were found during housecleaning.
A London Family Herald sketch recalls a Turkish buoy tender job that proved a booby trap. An English officer sent to manage shoal buoys found the Turks believed the task complete after laying the buoys. Without a boat the appointed custodian failed to inspect, leaving waterlogged, worn buoys and mounting complaints.
The New York Times explains dead reckoning as calculating a ship's position from log data using departure point course and speed. It notes errors from currents winds and compass drift, and that celestial observations must correct the reckoning. alive to risks of sole reliance.
A humorous exchange about a sign reading Teeth Extracted While You Wait. Biggs and Higgs laugh at a friend’s sign and discuss that the word dentist would sum up the message, highlighting the punchline about redundancy.
Sir Edward Bradford, an intrepid hunter, faced a furious tigress during a shooting expedition. After a near miss, the beast mauled his left arm, yet he calmly walked to safety to keep from provoking another strike until a comrade could finish the animal, though his arm was later amputated at the shoulder.
About 1840 Thomas Philips of London built an early extinguisher but failed to generate enough steam and carbonic acid to quench flames. A French inventor Carlier patented a more successful device in 1862, after which extinguishers spread globally for incipient fires, though useless once the fire advances significantly.
The Gladiators were paired for battles using varied methods. Some fought blindfolded or in chariots, on horseback, or in full armor. Nets, lances, and tridents were among the weapons, with fighters often dispatching opponents after entangling them.
In the St. Louis Republic cartoon dialogue Dick-Bill is said to lie in a magnificent cottage while Sam-Why quips the place is so small one can stand on the roof reach the chimney and open the front door. The piece notes no elevators run the ladder of fame.
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