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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1919
Page
6
Soldier at 14 Ogear II Zinneman arrives in Janevey after 18 months service abroad. Enlisted soon after the war began, he is cited as the youngest U S army recruit. His father, a German former engineer on the Kaiser's yacht Hohenzollern, recalls his son's early enlistment.
Warren Weaver, former Terre Hill High School principal and Milton Delaware teacher, has been appointed an instructor in the army school in Wiltlick, Germany. The program serves soldier boys when not on duty and uses American textbooks. Weaver, a Millersville Normal graduate from 1905, also worked as a salesman before joining the army and notes German rural life resembles that of Eastern Pennsylvania.
Sergeant James Martin of Marietta, long overseas, returned to America as a casualty. Attached to the 316th Regiment, he survived seven bullet holes in his overcoat with only slight wounds. He learned of his father’s death in the fall while in Maytown.
Trappers catching musk rats are earning profits with hides selling up to 1.40 dollars each, a sharp rise from the ten cent prices of earlier years. The current season yields more musk rats than several years past, drawing them back to streams that were once left to abandon.
Major O D Hammond of the Army Quartermaster Corps led a trapping drive at the Bush terminals in Brooklyn to control rats plaguing subsistence stores. With six to eight gross of traps and four workers, rat numbers dwindled from barrels to about a dozen daily. About 39,000 rats were captured in 1918 with losses under $50.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that on continents and in America certain sauces are used to flavor and improve burning quality of tobacco leaves. The piece urges testers to smell tobacco brands after rubbing in the palm, claiming the best smelling tobacco will smoke best in a pipe. It promotes Tuxedo Tobacco as aged Burley with chocolate for a distinct pure fragrance.
Washington announces a new three cent Victory stamp to honor the war’s end. Availability will be limited and postmasters will sell on request. The design shows Liberty Victorious with flags of allied nations in the background.
Mrs Albert Moulk of Auburn testified in a case against her husband and was labeled by court officials as the most ignorant person in the United States. She could not name days or a president and did not know about the war. Her husband shared similar ignorance. Judge Koch warned such individuals should not marry. Faulk was found guilty on several offenses and sentenced to ten years in jail.
Former Governor Brumbaugh will again head Juniata College at Huntingdon Pennsylvania an alumni banquet in Philadelphia announced. A plea for active support of a 150000 endowment campaign accompanied the announcement and a proposed additional 160000 would raise the college endowment to 500000 in total.
At the Post Office Department request the Geographic Board altered California abbreviation from Cal to Cali to avoid confusion with Colorado. The move aligns with standardizing postal and map references across official usage.
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