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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1885
Page
2
The notice states Friday morning publication under J. F. Bucs as editor and proprietor, and that the paper goes to press Thursday afternoon with limited space for material after Wednesday noon. It requires authenticated communications with the writer's name and address, ensuring good faith.
Friday March 6 1885 discusses Grant’s illness from throat cancer likely to prove fatal. February’s severe weather hurts the poor and outdoor workers. Innovations light bakers ovens with Victorian Brush lamps. Industrial activity shows stagnation but Spring may revive manufacturing. Women clerical work expands in Georgia Texas Arkansas with evolving views on female labor. Opium joints and large consumption noted with calls for enforcement amid editor jabs at rival papers.
President Cleveland took the oath in Washington with President Arthur and a host of senators present. A sea of spectators filled the city, while ball tickets sold around 12,000 for the ceremony and the gala events in the Pension Building. Elsewhere riots in Philadelphia over wage cuts spurred police to action amid breadline hardship.
John Simmons pleads guilty in New York to snatching a watch on a street car and gets five years in state prison. A Venango County mother pushes a fourteen year old toward marriage with a seventy six year old suitor, threatening self harm when refused. Three masked men abduct William Harris near Dayton, Ohio, steal $240, ransack the home, then flee. Harris is freed next day. A Michigan double murder leaves two Indian youths dead after a self defense claim by Timothy Coughlin. Silver Mills, Ohio焦 poison scare follows an arsenic poisoning at a church social with several deaths and others ill.
The widower WM. H. Reennars of Lititz Pennsylvania advertises a closing out sale of COOK STOVES and cheap HEATING STOVES to clear stock before adding new goods. Call early to examine stock and take advantage of low prices.
A Philadelphia advertisement details low prices on black silks, drap de Florence, and satin-like dress fabrics, with dollar cloths, serges, armures, and new mattings. It cites Northwest Market Street and the Wanamaker store, offering reductions and stock highlights like Jacquard brocades and printed linens.
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