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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1911
Page
8
Yearly advertisements to be paid quarterly. Transient advertisements payable in advance. Advertisements, to insure immediate insertion, must be handed in by Wednesday noon. Job work of all kinds neatly and promptly executed at short notice. All communications addressed RECORD GFFICH, Itita Lane, Oo. Pa.
Memorial Day events led by Stevens Post 517 G A R include services at Kissel Hill Machpelah and United Evangelical cemeteries at 8 45 AM 12 M and 5 30 PM with Rev John Watchorn and Rev E B Hagen. Comrades parade from Rudy's hall to Moravian cemetery. Becks band to head parade. 8 PM Springs grounds concert. Also road law notice and Manheim Manufacturing and Belting Company charter details.
A church meeting adopts resolutions mourning Charles B Amer a devoted Sabbath school secretary and co worker. The note offers prayers for the bereaved family and directs recording the resolutions and publication in Lititz papers. Committee members Rev Geo D Clarke GC D Haverstick Charles Zartman authorize transcribing the resolutions to records and sending copies to the family.
Isaac Larah of Penryn advertises mules for John D. Bear and invites prospective buyers to reach him by postal card, Indiana or Bell phone. The piece includes various quotes and notes, including jokes and a brief talk on Jamaica’s etymology.
The Osborne Farmer reports Bill Shiftless shifts his stance after discussing with his wife the woman suffrage movement. He supports equal voting rights, citing his wife’s work and stake. His wife counters by aiming to regulate distilleries, prompting Bill to argue against women’s voting. He ends the day in bed, wife tending the home.
A London Graphic sketch portrays the final, penury struck phase of Beau Brummel in Caen. In imagined private parties he greets unseen guests as the Duchess of Devonshire and other old friends drift into his fading mind, a poignant glimpse of decline.
A London Globe column argues tipping in France keeps life orderly by ensuring services. It claims without tips the concierge and servants would harass residents with strict regulations, miss deliveries, and misplace belongings. The piece uses humorous, exaggerated anecdotes about a waiter spilling syrup and a coat getting stained to illustrate the supposed consequences of not tipping.
Past and Present advertises sturdy working pants, highlighting Shippensburg styles at 50 and 75 cents per pair and Sweet Orr pants at 1 dollar per pair, promoting reliable wear for summer.
Sealed bids define Japanese sales with no shouting. bidders place folded slips in a box, the highest bid wins, owner sells only if intent is to part with property. Also: Joachim Murat, famed for dress, rose from laborer’s son to marshal and king, noted for lavish attire and battlefield reviews.
Advertisements list upcoming sales with cattle horses and hogs. Priday at Hphrata stables offers fresh cows and springers plus stock hogs by Geo. S. Vemmy. May 27 Leber’s Sale at Exchange Stables includes Kansas horses and Ohio horses by named sellers. June 1 near Akron station features Lebanon Lancaster cows fresh and springers by Wolf & Sons.
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