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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
2
A satirical WWI verse depicts Kaiser Bill calling the Devil for guidance as he grimly recounts Belgium atrocities and Zeppelins, then confronts Allied threats from Woodrow Wilson and Yankee soldiers. The Devil taunts him, promising to prepare Hell for the coming clash with the Americans.
Luther Seiders a 71 year old Civil War veteran from Reading hails from a long line of soldiers. His great grandfather John Seiders served in the Revolutionary War and his grandfather William Seiders fought in the War of 1812. His father Henry Seiders served in the Mexican War and the Civil War, and Luther’s son Henry served in the Spanish American War.
Samuel Glenn found a nest of baldhead eagles on a rocky hill near his Hemlock home in Tidioute. After a fight with the old bird he captured three young eagles. The birds are small and weak but have long claws. Bald eagles are becoming very rare in the state.
A sequence of gatherings at Lititz Springs includes Lutheran Advent and Covenant U E S picnics on August 8 and 11, St. Stephen’s and St. John’s S S S picnics on August 19, Moravian, Fasnacht, and multiple church reunions scattered through August, with Union and St Luke’s Reformed also hosting picnics at Lititz Springs.
Benj N Lively, a painter with Kayser and Allaman in Philadelphia, praises Tanlac for rapid recovery from nervous dyspepsia and fatigue. He reports improved digestion, appetite, sleep, and strength, saying the medicine helped him return to work. The ad notes Tanlac is sold by Druggist L N Moyer.
Howard Heinz, Federal Food Administrator for Pennsylvania, calls for war time simplicity in private dinners and public banquets to curb food waste. He cites English and French limits, urges smaller portions and menus aligned with food laws, and labels waste as a crime against Europe’s starving millions and Allied soldiers.
Honard Heinz, U S Food Administrator for Pennsylvania, warns that ice supplies may be tight this summer due to high demand for refrigeration of meat, fruit, and vegetables. He urges waste reduction, careful storage, and better use by households, restaurants, and beverage dispensers as ammonia shortages threaten artificial ice production.
At a board meeting in Lancaster the school panel voted to eliminate German language and literature from the curriculum and to replace it with French as part of the studies.
One Hundred Per Cent patriotic note as Liverpool claims every man woman and child in the borough enrolled in Red Cross and Junior Red Cross. With 347 members in the Red Cross and 125 in the Junior Red Cross the city records a perfect 100 per cent enrollment.
The article compares nerves to a military telegraph, urging readers to boost blood and iron with Dr. Pierce’s Irontic tonic from the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute. It touts iron as the key to energy, offering a 10 cent trial package and urging immediate action to regain vigor.
Lancaster County East Donegal township boasts the best roads with major improvements over the past years. The roads are macadamized except for a few farmers’ houses, with plans to finish them. John D. Brenneman now serves as supervisor, replacing Dr. George A. Harter who held the road man post for nine years.
A dialog at the post office features a man noting the post master seems at home there and calling the place his stamping ground. The exchange includes a line about Fridays being amateurs' night and a remark about a kiss prompting a request to return on Fridays.
Fragmentary lines reflect a debate about the impossibility of the greater entering 1888 and a painterly aside on how windy days send dust into the speaker’s eyes. The text juxtaposes philosophical claim with sensory detail in a clipped, poetic newspaper fragment.
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