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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1921
Page
2
A Keystone Exchanges investigation finds nine families near Uniontown in destitution while owning cars. A women’s committee notes plenty of money when work was brisk, but inability to sell cars when demand dropped. Committee to assist in selling autos and aid other needs. Similar conditions said to exist in other cork regions.
Paul A Webb a junior at Allegheny College Meadville has cleared about 1000 a year by collecting helobenders and fishing worms sold to institutions for comparative anatomy study. Born in Russia he majors in biology and has devised a secret solution that brings worms to the surface even in January.
Justice G. W. Stroup of Mount Carmel ruled in a Kulpmont case where Mrs. Labora Orlando and Mrs. Peter Gigunski claimed a prize hen. Stroup took the hen to a well.
Fragmentary report notes a dispute over a liberated point and a queen layer returning to Mrs. Orlandos coop. It states Mrs. Gigunski must pay the casts. The text is incomplete and lacks verifiable details.
The First Presbyterian Church under Rev J W Todd announced Sunday night that the campaign to raise 50 000 dollars for a new Sunday School building was successful after three days of fundraising. In Lebanon Keystone Macaroni plans a six story annex costing 200 000 dollars to expand the factory output and workforce.
Dr. Halfdan Sundt of Fredriksvern Coast hospital in Norway published a pamphlet arguing hip joint disease in children is not always tuberculous. He found 43.4 percent of cases were non tuberculosis and that leaving one group untreated and allowing free movement yielded final results as good as treated groups after three years.
Gilbert K Chesterton argues Dickens foresaw social change more clearly than Thackeray He notes Dickens avoided strict socialism yet captured progress soberly Chesterton claims Dickens helped shape modern literature while Thackeray clung to old assumptions.
In Penn township C M Fahnestock accidentally discharged a rifle, injuring his foot while trying to shoot a pig. He was taken to General Hospital Lancaster where doctors located and removed the bullet using X ray.
Lancaster County students form the Lancaster County Club of State College to foster ties with the college and alumni. Cadet enrollment nears 1800 with new Enfield rifles and a machine gun company, while Lancaster countians compete in wrestling and football and the Penn State student athletic association.
Constable James H. Nase of Sellersville Bucks County cut down a maple tree at the Pay cell plumber shop adjoining his property and found a large steel horse shoe embedded near the center of the trunk. The trunk measures nearly three feet across and the shoe rested in a clean area. The find suggests a trunk theory about the horse shoe’s origin from about a century ago.
The four teen commanders of the Knights of Malta in Lancaster County total 3,426 members with White Cross Commandery No. 159 leading at 1,090. April figures show Meridian Sun 550, Marietta 83, White Cross 1,050, Oriflamme 33, Martin Luther 430, Olive Branch 167, Laurel Wreath 68, Akron 149, Antioch 134, White Dove 292, Donegal 130, White Star 187, Ephrata 37, totaling 426. The poem and verses follow.
The United States Department of Agriculture warns of downy mildew spreading rapidly in the South affecting cigarwrapper tobacco in Florida and Georgia. Pennsylvania growers should watch seed beds and report suspicious blight to State College, sending plant specimens for identification.
Garden specialists from the U S Department of Agriculture outline how eggplants, related to tomatoes and peppers, suffer in cold. Start seeds indoors, transplant to pots, provide rich soil, and apply weak manure. Flea beetles damage leaves. control with lime dust or fine tobacco dust. Pick ripe fruit to extend production before frost. Black Beauty and Improved Large Purple are leading varieties. A girl with a new engagement ring seldom appears to be ashamed of her hands.
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