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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1926
Page
3
Dick discovers a shipwrecked seaman clinging to a life raft near a secluded island. The Pelican yacht ran aground in a storm, and the rescued sailor reports the craft will not last twenty four hours. Miss Alice Cutler questions Dick about signals and a hidden compartment aboard the Pelican.
Dick stalks the island as he spies on Blake and the Cutlers. He uncovers a concealed wireless plant below the bluff and wonders if Blake uses it to control the yacht. He plans to intercept messages and puzzle out the mystery before dawn.
The article discusses choosing optimal timing for home alterations, repairs, and new construction, noting repair work often paid hourly and more efficient during trade lulls. It lists tasks from painting and plumbing to heating, remodeling, grading, driveways, and outbuildings, stressing timing impacts on cost of living and community effects.
The article notes a shift from rural to urban America and cites 611 cities with playgrounds and recreation as a government function. It highlights nearly 76,000 recreation directors and widespread facilities like parks auditoriums beaches golf courses and even opera and radio as part of public recreation.
The piece argues home ownership is key since a third of life is spent at home. It notes rent equals buying for the landlord and that new purchase plans let averages build equity with similar monthly costs. Caution urged to avoid unaffordable commitments.
San Luis Obispo county supervisors pass an ordinance prohibiting erection of signs and billboards along county highways. Legal notices and tourist direction signs may be allowed, but signs on fences trees or county buildings are forbidden. Violations carry fines from 25 to 200 dollars or up to 50 days imprisonment or both.
The text notes that sheep were introduced from Mexico into the area now Texas early on. In 1872 Mexican sheep entered the state in large numbers but the industry was then not prosperous. A 1892 U.S. Department of Agriculture report says in 24 years the industry expanded greatly with rising wool yields.
The passage notes a shift from 2.64 to 1.8 pounds indicating industry formation before 1872. It details Pilgrim food imports aboard the Mayflower including baron, hard tack, salt beef, herring, cheese, beer, ale, and luxuries like butter vinegar mustard and possibly lemons and primroses. Around 1630 colonists fed on fish game oysters clams beans pumpkins peas squash turnips onions apples pears grapes huckleberries with cranberries as a later discovery.
The report notes that over 80,000 patent applications are filed in the United States annually, with about half resulting in grants. It traces a 25 year drift in filings and mentions roughly 1,606,000 patents granted since the office’s history, while comparing to other nations.
Hershey and Gibbel provide legal paper drawing clerking of sales notary public services and estate settlement assistance at 18 Lincoln Ave Lititz PA with prompt careful execution of deeds mortgages wills and other documents.
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