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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1879
Page
2
A 19th century newspaper urges advertisers to submit copy by Wednesday for Thursday publication and require name and address for good faith. The column satirically lampoons sensational tales and whimsical contests including tickling a man to death, several match ideas, and a sleeping contest with beds and bedding sponsors.
Senator Cameroun plans construction of a Cameron Mansion in Washington while national events unfold. President Hayes and his family will visit New York this Saturday. A Reading Mass bank treasurer embezzled 90000 over three years in a systemic robbery. John Wanamaker marks the end of his third year operating his Philadelphia store. Miss Alice Breaman of Brockport is pursuing Charlie Ross. she leads Brockport Normal School, while Ross heads Cobleskill Academy. A man named BR has sued B.8 hat Me for ten thousand in breach of promise.
Seven mules and one horse owned by the National Kaitlin Company of Birmingham Delaware County were poisoned. Frank Miller, formerly a Dallas Herald pressroom worker, inherits 2 009 000 through his wife Azelia Dore, granddaughter of Texas millionaire Jean Lewis Champagne, who died recently. A Brooklyn cockfighting fad features gloves and muzzled birds, touted as innocent yet likely to diminish the sport’s appeal without pain.
Local intelligence reports zeal as vital to church life, arguing inactivity weakens Zion and fuels moral decay. It urges all members to join in mercy and outreach, while noting sidelined believers erode the community and hinder gospel work. Also covered are cigar tax labeling changes, New Haven Sunday school reorganization, local juror notices, springtime musings, and a paralytic stroke case near Millport.
On Tuesday morning eight cars loaded with household goods farming implements left Marietta for Abilene Kansas. About 180 owners mostly Dunkers from East Donegal township sold farms here bought new ones in the West. The emigrants, with a bishop ministers and full church, aim to settle where farms cost less for their children. They traveled on the 25th and will join others at Harrisburg. Kansas number may exceed one thousand. The rest of the piece notes a Lyceum debate on women's suffrage with Miss Ella Star's and Ada Reidenbach participating.
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