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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1911
Page
8
Yearly advertisements to be paid quarterly. Transient ads payable in advance. Ads must be landed by Wednesday noon for immediate insertion. Job work of all kinds neatly and promptly executed at short notice. Communications should be addressed RECORD OFFICE, saitz Lane, Co. Pa.
Public examination dates set for entrance to Rothsville High and Grammar schools on Friday March 30 at Rothsville High School and for Warwick High and Grammar schools on Saturday April 1 at 8 o clock A M. Pupils in all advanced grades in Warwick township schools are to take the exam. Parents and teachers invited, By ORDER OF THE BOARD.
The notice requests REC ORD subscribers to inform changes of residence and post office addresses, and to provide old addresses to ensure prompt list updates and delivery. It emphasizes updating records for timely distribution of the ORD publication.
The article discusses Jean Jacques Rousseau and his treatise Le Nouveau Dedale on aeronautics. It notes his question of finding a lighter than air body and his greater challenge of making it descend. The work remained unpublished for a long time and appeared only in 1801.
The article explains the term turn turtle for ships that capsize by rolling until the keel points upward and sinking follows. It cites the battleship Captain lost in the Bay of Biscay where three minutes elapsed from capsizing to sinking and forty of 600 crew members reached the hull, with eighteen later rescued and giving testimony.
Harper's Weekly describes a remote Tonkin district where log beds of nam hon pine lie buried two to eight yards underground. Native labor digs these coffin planks from a near undying wood that resists damp, then ships them to Europe for funerary use.
A ten story Triangle Waist Co building at Washington Place and Greene Street burns causing 142 deaths, mostly women and girls. Lack of fire escapes traps workers, many jump to nets that fail, and bystanders are crushed by falling bodies. Authorities cite a cigarette as a suspected ignition.
Advertises sale notices and printed bills for events from April 1 to April 7 at various Lancaster county locations including Ephrata Lan caster Akron Pleasant View and Lititz. Sellers include Jos W Baker Henry Weill A N Wolf & Sons Jacob Keener Geo S Demmy and Mrs Rose Bitzer with items ranging from horses cows lumber to household goods and conveyances.
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