Tramp Life and Charity Echo Across Nations
A Bavarian lament on vagrants and social fear contrasts with a Lancaster Automobile Club meeting note. The club will hold a Friday 8 pm gathering at Odd Fellows Hall Lancaster with a Franklin and Marshall College Glee Club and Orchestra concert after the business session. Officers and committee reports will be presented and elections held.
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Lancaster Automobile Club
Odd Fellows Hall
Lancaster
Franklin and Marshall College
Glee Club
The
Automobile Club
Lititz News in Brief 1881 Locals and Laughter
On March 11 1881 complaints about the street crossing by Springs Hotel prompt medical society action uniting three town physicians. Lititz Cornet Band returns from Washington inaugural ceremonies. Circus promoter offers 10000 to lead his parade. A Reading train mishap causes a woman to miss her stop and stay seven hours. Butter and eggs at 14 cents.
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Springs Hotel
County Medical Society
Lititz
Washington
Adam Forebaugh
America
Sinking Springs
1905 Civil Service Winner and Local News Snippet
Miss Elizabeth Bricker won first place in a civil service exam for assistant physician at the Philadelphia Hospital. A gold watch sold for 872 at Sarah M. Sturgis estate sale in Rothsville. Lafayette baseball team formed with listed players. Heavy rain caused overflowing streams. Knights of Pythias lantern to illustrate initiatory degree. Jacob Roland bought an automobile amid town interest in cars after a Philadelphia show. A motorist damaged a tire during a Sunday run.
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Elizabeth Bricker
Philadelphia
Sarah M. Sturgis
Rothsville
N. D. Sturgis
Lafayette
Wier
Wagner
Forbes
Kreider
Long
Graybill
Roth
Butzer
Moyer
Knights of Pythias
Jacob Roland
Sugar and meat specials offered Friday and Saturday
Local ad invites customers to bring tickets Friday or Saturday to receive sugar. It lists boiled beef at 16 cents, pudding at 20 cents, sausage at 24 cents, and a deal of 5 tablespoons for $1.10.
German Play Set In Lititz By Emaus Players
The Pennsylvania German comedy De Calline Browierts will be staged in Lititz on Saturday evening April 25 in the High School auditorium. Presented in the Pennsylvania German dialect by the Emaus Players, the show drew praise in Lancaster. Also announced is the Seventh Annual Banquet of the Lancaster County Firemen's Association on Saturday March 21 at the Odd Fellows Hall in Lancaster with address by U.S. Senator James J. Davis. Men of the city and county are invited and may reserve by writing J. Harry Grube, Secretary, Landisville Pa.
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Caroline
Lititz
Emaus
Lancaster
Lancaster County Firemen’s Association
Odd Fellows’ Hall
James J. Davis
J. Harry Grube
Landisville
Lincoln at Manheim Theatre shows new Lincoln portrait
The stirring film Abraham Lincoln will be shown at the Auditorium Manheim on Saturday. It presents a romance around the great American figure and is described as among the finest of the current season.
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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Manheim
Add to War's Cast and Memorial Costs
The Atchison Globe notes that war expenses include erecting memorials, likening them to framing a mortgage upon payoff. It mentions domestic mishaps as a fall down the cellar steps incident and reports prices: print butter 28 cents per pound roll butter 26 cents and eggs Ide per dozen.
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Atchison Globe
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Libby
Sauer Kraut
Boscal Coffee
Krumm
20Th Inc
Lititz Springs
Broad and
Marion Streets
Lititz, PA
Carl B. Risser
Broad St
Sport Oxfords
Mishko
Swift
Wonter’s “En-Joie” Health Shoes
American Legion
National Biscuit Co
Shoes & Oxfords
Black Oxfords
Men’s
Black Vici
Lady Bird
Armstrong
Pfautz Bros
Lutz
Central Market
Our
East Main Street
Bowers
Good
E. Grube
Nissley
S. Dubs
Andy Conrad
Sam Bear
Manheim, PA
Greta Garbo
Bill Boyd
Painted Desert
Walter Huston
Una Merkel
Marie Dressler
Polly Moran
Princess and the Plumber
Charles Farrell
Maureen O'Sullivan
Davis
Manheim Theatre
Pasadena
Calif
Michigan
Stanford
Record
New York
North Broad Street
Pennsylvania
Dietrich
Spruce Street
Kellogg’s
Monarch
Mueller
Fels-Napth Soap Company
Doster’s
Punjab
Eer
Lde
del Monte
California
Mellinger
Hess
Elbo Macaroni
Seaman & Seed
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