Ur and Ancient Ur: From City to Mounds and Mummies
The Lititz Record recalls Ur the birthplace of Abraham and the ancient city’s shift into a mound-laden ruin. It notes Ur as a Basra area seaport once trading with India, now midway to Babylon, with a pyramidal tower mound and surviving Babylonian architecture. The piece reflects on erosion of coastlines, ancient warfare, and a mummy exhibit linking arteriolosclerosis to tuberculosis in antiquity, showing old diseases persist.
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Mesopotamia
Lenst
Abeer
Palestine
Chaklean
Persian Gulf
India
Ara
Gulf
Alexander the Great
Babylon
Maar
Euphrates
Mmpern
Nagzareth
Gabel
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Comfort for Smoke Mascots Among French Engineers
Three units of colored engineers stationed at a southern France medical supply depot keep three mascots. Bobo the baboon, Smoke the small French dog, and Peorla the brindled wyattiar Geg-a real 0. D. brindle. Lobo, bold and unruly, roughs the sergeant and provokes firings, while supporters boast no dog can match Smoke and Peoria for loyalty.
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France
Bobo
Smoke
Peorla
Lobo
Tungsten ore production in Commonwealth territories gains
Mine Tungsten In Australia, Australie ranks second in British territories for tungsten ore output. Queensland mines have been acquired by a major firm with tungsten reduction plants in Britain, signaling a new era of progress. Wolfram is mined in New South Wales and Victoria and emissions of schoeelite come from New Zealand and Tasmania.
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Australia
Australie
Queensland
Great Britain
New South Wales
Victoria
New Zealand
Tasmaunia
France plans Sacred Road for unity and memory
The French government proposes a 400 mile sacred road from the coast to Alsace tracing the actual line where the two armies faced for three years. It would pass through wooded areas where soldiers who died for the country are buried, serving as a monument to national unity.
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France
Llaneders
Alsace
Not by the Hour Telephony Metered Rates Explained
A Detroit press rep explains new telephone rates under metered service. A caller asks about charging per call and per line, correcting a misunderstanding that rates would be by the hour. The discussion clarifies how each call will incur a discrete charge.
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Detroit Rep Press
FILL ALL SILOS TO THEIR LIMIT
Agricultural guidance urges full silo filling and mature corn for ensilage to maximize nutrient value. Neighborhood crews from several farms should rotate to reduce labor costs, with frost damage not fatal if cut promptly. Watering, elevating attachments, and careful sealing improve packed silage while youths assist in filling operations to boost capacity.
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United Sates Department of Agriculture
Georgette Blouse in Slip-On Style with Beaded Trim
A flesh color georgette blouse in slip-on back fastening style is featured. It features a smile vestee and is enhanced with beads for decorative trim.
Tortoise Georgina Dies At London Zoo At Age 2
Georgina the giant tortoise at London Zoo, linked to Lord Rothschild, died recently at two hundred sixty years old. The keeper recalled the playful giant which carried children on its back and noted Georgina’s youth compared with older tortoises.
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Georgina
London Zoo
Lord Rothschild
Furile
Indtlatizable Island
Galapagos
Weary Vili
Spangler Demands Dam Fishway at McCall's Ferry
Spangler demands a real plan for a fishway at Bealls Dam on the Susquehanna River or removal of the obstruction. He intends to introduce a bill compelling Pennsylvania Power Company to certify after one year whether a fishway has been provided. If not, the attorney general must order dam removal and revoke the company's privileges.
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Stevedora
Blaick
Rollyman Robert
Spangler
Pennsylvania W
and Power Company
McCall's Ferry
Busquehanna River
Streain
Shangler
McCall’s Ferry
Have Many Chickens Travers Risser Poultry Farm Visit
Have Many Chickens Travers Risser and son, leading poultry dealers near Elizabethtown, own about 1400 White Leghorn chickens and produce up to 1200 eggs daily. They maintain nearly 2000 young fowl and ship directly to city dealers. During high water they received as high as 7 cents per dozen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travers Risser and Son
Elizabethtown
Eges
Restored Assyrian Treasures Open At British Museum
The Assyrian Bulls and other relics from the Nineveh collection are back on view in the British Museum transept after wartime storage. War damage led to temporary closures, but plans to reopen the museum span multiple departments. A Deaf and Blind school display is featured for handicapped visitors, and a new children’s exhibit uses a triangular wooden ride apparatus.
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Nineveh
Museu
Aberystwyth
Niseum of Parfiourgey
Chile
Popular Science
St Michtel Party Halted German Forces In Wood
An infantry company after hours of advance reports it cut off several score of Germans in a wood. The Germans did not show much fight and many surrendered. The captain’s battalion report included a casual note about “about a hundred friendly rooms in woods on my wight.”
Excursions Resumed By Railroads For Summer Travel
Beadite and Pennsylvania railroads plan several one day and seventeen day excursions with routes to Atlantic City Ocean City Cape May Willow Grove Philadelphia Gettysburg and Harrisburg plus extended trips to South Key points and Wildwood. Scheduled Saturdays and Sundays begin May through August with notable dates listed. The Reading Railway and Pennsylvania Railroad publish the excursion plans for summer travel.
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Beadite
Pennsylvania Vrailroad
Reading Railway Co. Annonce
Atlantic
Ity
Ocean City
Cape May
Willow Grove
New York
Philadelphia
Gattysburg
Williams Wal
Cottage Cheese Campaign Against Meat Demand
Cottage cheese consumption rose as a government dairy campaign promoted dairy products and cheese manufacture. Demonstrators and experts from the Department of Agriculture toured states urging more dairy usage.
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United States
eStry Qualia
Ovely Barter Lawrit Sewer Hall Snow 8
A cryptic fragment describes the snow shovel stored for next winter and a winterdroom scene. It hints at lawn care and mowing on hot days, with disjointed remarks about fear and a ruined summer.
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Ovely
Lawrit
Hall Snow
Cholera Epidemic Abating in Lancaster County
Dr Joseph Johnson agent for the state live stock sanitary board reports knee cholera in Lancaster county is abating with no serious conditions. Slaughterhouse intake at union stock yards continues for immediate needs as drugs are applied to end the epidemic. A town newspaper notes a woman shocked by a friend’s Easter joke hat card reading induced to 275 dollars.
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Joseph Johnson
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Lancaster County
Lmion
Toywortan
Cliirel
Yale
Five Varieties of Trees Planted by Bethlehem Steol Co
Bethlehem Steol Company plans to plant a thousand pine trees of five varieties on holdings around Cornwall and Rexmont region. Five thousand evergreens are already taking root. Alexander Kish of McAdoo claims a season record trout, catching a 4 inch fish in Lofiy Creek.
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Bethlehem Steol Company
Cornwall
Throm
Rexmont
Alexander Kish
McAdoo
Lofiy Creek
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Victory Liberty Loan Committees
Lititz
Abraham
Company
Lauber
United States Department of Agriculture
Bealls Dam
H. S. & M. Suits
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Rus of
Grofit Wolf Co
N. Queen St
Lancaster
L&w
Longman & Martinez, Makers
N.Y
Ivery
Sayer
LANE
Carload
Lebanon County
Geo. S
West End
Mechanicsbiug
M.M. Houck
H.N
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