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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1919
Page
7
A 1918 era advertisement urges tobacco growers to adopt price stabilizing policies to secure higher returns for their 1919 crop. It promises improved market access, guaranteed per acre gains, and an annual return on invested money, stressing individual, loyal financial support to maintain prices.
An advertising note for Wm M Amer's Hardware Store touts timekeeping tools and a wide hardware line. It highlights oil heaters to save coal, various paints and glass, washing machines, wringers, coaster wagons and sleds for children, air rifles, and a promise of competitive prices and Christmas gift ideas.
The final four Lancaster fire horses will be replaced with a motor driven vehicle after a new triple combination hose and chemical wagon arrives from Lalrance Engine Works Buffalo shipped February 28. The chemical apparatus will move to South Queen Street, and the horses will be retired after three years of motorization, with city fire losses under one hundred thousand dollars.
A county canvass shows most potato growers intend to reduce acreage. Few would plant as much as last season, with some reducing by more than half. Many will plant only what is necessary for home use.
While walking along State street in Doylestown Mrs Wynne James was bitten on the ankle by a muskrat or sewer rat. The animal then attacked Peter Siegler and two daughters, who warded it off with an umbrella, knocking the rat over three times before it fled.
Charlie Yeager an expert assembler at the International factory in Allentown Pa describes a time of nervous fatigue and no appetite. After taking Tanlac his appetite returned, tiredness vanished, and he sleeps well and feels rested for work. The Tanlac bearing J I Gore Co. label is sold by Druggist L N Moyer.
Report cites farmers along Fruitville and Manheim pikes claiming tobacco bonuses via truck traffic to Lancaster, a practice labeled as a delivery cost saving. A farmer notes a $50 bonus via a check beyond contract price. The piece notes a weak blacksmith trade, aging workers, and Ford’s $238 automobile as reducing demand for horse shoes. It also highlights New York City’s vast hospital, with 3500 beds, 4100 in emergencies, silk mattresses, daily flowers, and efficient potato and onion peeling machines.
Mrs Bert Mmerick formerly Mary Artz of Lancaster now in Rangoon India sails for home with her two children on February 24 arriving mid April. This is her first visit home since marrying four years ago. Her husband, a Pittsburgh man, has spent eight years in India as superintendent of the Burm oil fields and cannot accompany her due to business.
Private Raymond Wilson, a returned Lancaster soldier, is reported dead following influenza after a bombing at the hospital he occupied. In his absence both parents and his fiancée Miss Maude Dellinger had died.
An advertisement promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a remedy for kidney related ailments. It claims kidney disease shows weariness sleeplessness and backache and suggests using the capsules to restore health within 24 hours and maintain kidney health thereafter. The pitch targets general readers and offers money back guarantee.
Seed testing under Pennsylvania law is offered by the Department of Agriculture in Harrisburg with a 25 cent fee for purity and weed content analysis. The Bureau of Chemistry accepts 2 to 4 ounces of sample, tests for various legumes and grasses, and reports purity and dodder or Canada whistle seeds. Also told are humorous local anecdotes about a remarkably long lived goose on the Fritz farm, a misadventure with a goose in a bag, and wildlife introductions. Sam S. Keene, state game warden, oversees releases of 200 Mexican quail and 36 pairs of Gamble quail, plus 15 rabbits, distributed in Lancaster County.
Aunt Julia Walter of Malvern celebrated her 104th birthday born March 6, 1815 in Townships Chester County. She is the oldest Chester County native still living. She resides with niece Mrs Bernard Hawley and continues daily routines of sewing knitting reading and meals. John Roberts of Wilmington Delaware also marked his 102nd birthday with minor frailty.
Dealers estimate about 200000 tons of river coal removed from the Susquehanna vicinity in the last year. At an average price of 2.50 dollars per ton the coal could be worth about 500000 dollars.
The Masons at Elizabethtown have workers cutting away woodland beside their large peach orchard. Wood is sold by the cord for as little as 1.28 dollars per cord. Large logs go to their newly erected saw mill to be converted into lumber for building purposes.
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