Cloth all in region as we prepare
Prepared to clothe everyone in this section of the country. Efforts focus on supply chains and readiness to meet demand with available fabrics and garments.
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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1885
Page
1
The Three Waves Sailor Tale Of Lamia Visions
A first person reminiscence reveals a shipboard encounter with two mysterious women, a warning of three coming waves, and the tragic death of a wife and transformation of a cousin. The tale ends with the captain’s crew surviving a perilous voyage after a harpoon strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urazandi
Bilinch
Thomas Land
Thomas
Foo
Olive Grove
Tiis
Lamia
Masoe
Dows
Assassin
Bilineh
Marie
Voices In Nature From Joy To Mourning
A fragmented verse collage cycles through voices of joy and sorrow in nature. It shifts from merry song and babbling brook to stern winds and autumn leaves, ending with a hopeful note that music blesses and consoles.
Relics for New Orleans highlight old hand engines
The Philadelphia volunteer firemen’s association considers sending relics to the New Orleans exposition. The oldest candidate is the Mohawk & Essex hand engine from Salem dating to 1748, the Perseverance engine of Bethlehem built in 1698 and shipped to America in 1763, now housed in a local museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia News
New Orleans
J. G. Hollick
Volunteer Firemen’s Association of Philadelphia
O'Connor
My. O'Connor
Philadelphia Association
Mohawk & Essex Fire Company
Salem
Mass
Salem Company
England
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bethlehem
J. Hill Martin
London
Brooks
Christian Jacobson
American Moravian Society
America
Hope
Perseverance Engine Company
Broad Street
Auseum
Young Men’s Missionary Society
Main Street
Young Ladies Seminary
A Sunday School Talker Sparks a Laughing Lesson
The talker asks children to name favored domestic animals and one brave boy shouts Roast chicken causing laughter. A list of humorous vignettes follows including a dentist with toothache and a coal dealer on scales. Attorney I Bricker, in town Saturdays and Mondays, offers legal consultation at 15 East King Street, Lancaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. Bricker
Lancaster
East King Street
Texas Toughs Outmatch New York Cheaters
Sergeant De Voe of the New York Police Department contrasts Texas toughness with New York confidence under claim that Texas men suppress crime more effectively. He recalls an incident aboard a Gulf sailing vessel where two eastern men cheated a Texas man at cards. the Texas man waited, then shot both cheaters dead when they became careless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
A. Possiper
de- Voe
New York
Gulf of Mexico
East
Mrs Stewart Visits Famous A T Stewarts Store
Mrs Stewart, a plain dressed yet wealthy patron, visits the stor y weekly to view novelties and place orders for gowns bonnets or house items. Clerks and staff subtly acknowledge her presence and show deference as she quietly surveys each counter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Stewart
A.T Stewart's
Swift-winged Scouts of the Sky
The narrator observes wild geese flying in formation with an advance guard of two males. Curious about a house, the flock circles and calls in their language. The flock redirects around any unusual object and the male partner returns after a mate is shot, hovering and crying.
New Telephone Box Idea and Public Conservatory Plans
A new pay by time telephone box installs for five minutes per nickel, with operation in cigar shops and drug stores, plus Samuel J. Tilden to build a large year round fruit conservatory at Greystone with public access under manager supervision. Also a report of rapid growth of German carp in Robert Girvin’s fish venture and local machine shop advertising in Manheim Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Madame Columbia
Florida
Suba
Spain
Polk
Greystone
Samuel J. Tilden
Robert Girvin
George Sirubel
Jesse Girvin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sonny
Walther H. Buch
Lititz, Pa
Brandt & CO
H. 8. Shungert
North Queen Street
A.R. Bomberger
Lititz
WM. H. Begennas
Andes
Mystly
F. Bomberger
Auguste
Maine
Deva
Rilineh
Machicaco
Cape of the Figuier
Maspe
Eilinch
Bil’ Inch
Silence
St. John’s River
Ohio
Mimo Horr
Arch Street
Philadelphia
Joseph M. Fueun
Arcorn
Nature
Boreas
Zephyrus
Tin Mission
Wuy
A. B. Wolgemuth
Manheim
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