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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1924
Page
8
Quote from Thoreau extols health through nature and the outdoors. He argues society is diseased and restoration comes from walking among pines and high pastures. He urges frequent converse with the field and woods to revive mind and spirit.
A fragment from the Boston Transcript features a daughter's anxious plea as she plans to claim a dental visit to hide a young man’s presence. The text contrasts fragile anticipation with warlike imagery and somber reflections from Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Joseph Dermine of Lancaster fired a shot at his life on Lampeter road after learning his former housekeeper Mary Yellets married Richard Sturgis of Lititz. Police found Dermine in neighbors' hands after he declared I want my Mary for I want to die. he had harassed the neighborhood for a week with drunken threats and a poor aim left a bullet hole in a wall.
The piece laments baseball fans awaiting spring games and the chance to hear Play Ball again. It recalls discussions of pennants for 1925 and notes changes in athletic attitudes at Susquehanna University led by L D Grossman. It mentions Percy Haughton’s death and a local Lititz native.
The old home town paper brings nostalgia with memories of melon patches creek fishing and depot days. It also notes election outcomes, seasonal changes, and the growing popularity of dahlias with reports on shows and cultivation advances.
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