This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1912
Page
7
A Home and Farm correspondent describes a self closing gate system for a farm crossing a cow pasture. Gates hang inward to prevent stock entry and use a wind latch to hold when winds blow. A wood wing, spike and wire latch catch the gate, ensuring it remains closed even as trees sway.
A statement advocates a farmers' club in every neighborhood and the best farm papers in every home. It urges use of both brain and branc by critics.
Some good poultry men think feeding sitting hens in the morning keeps them content on nests. Soupy fowls should be separated to prevent soil contamination and disease. Dampness injures chickens durkeys doe geese and pigeons more than rain.
Practical guide on building airtight silos using cement or wood, indoors or outdoors. Notes the benefits of high storage density, fermentation heating to kill germ life, and optimal silage particle size, with cautions about barn placement and material absorption.
Build a self feeding hopper from a grocery box sixteen inches deep, two feet wide, and two and a half feet long. Fasten a hinged lid, tilt the top inward to create a mash outlet, trim ends to fit, and nail edge braces to hold mash for easy feeding during the laying season.
Dr Cyril G Hopkins of Illinois argues that humans have multiplied while the earth has subdued us. He cites three essentials for improving upland prairie and timber soils limestone organic matter and phosphorus to profitably manage the land.
Do not forget the girls when the returns for the crops and animals are to be distributed among family members. Boys labored in fields and barns and deserve reward, but praise the girls who supported the work. They bore the heat of summer at the kitchen range and managed preserves and canning. Farm and Ranch.
A seed testing note urges farmers to test seed corn at home in a germination box and strive for 100 percent germination. It warns against relying on others and links a strong stand to good profits, attributed to Parmaml Wireside.
In Keokuk Mark Twain proved his humor, after earlier doubt from a clerk named Edward Brownell. The future humorist recalled Brownell’s mockery as he rose to fame with the Sandwich Islands lecture, joking that Brownell was the city’s “greatest Mar on the earth.”
A historical portrait of ceramic invention detailing Palissy’s sixteen years of misery before perfecting white enamel, along with tales of Bougher and Wers, the Elers method, and Samuel Astoury’s key espionage to replicate Elers’ secrets.
A collection of quirky phrases about animal groups and a set of brief journalistic vignettes. Theterse notes include venery terms for birds, a Kimberley siege anecdote involving Cecil Rhodes, a domestic moment about parental hints, a lunch counter miscue, and a closing maxim on admitting error.
A farming tip describes using a bushel basket over a hogs head to force them to back up. By following and steering, hogs can be guided up a chute and into a wagon, likened to moving a wheelbarrow.
Partial list of properties offered by Hershey and Gibbel Lititz Pennsylvania includes a 2 acre tract near Lititz with a one room house priced 150, a 20 acre tract with a frame house and outbuildings, a 5 acre tract two miles from Titita with a nearly new frame house and stable priced 1300, a 134 acre farm in West Covalian township near Denver with a good house and bank, a two story brick house on Front Street with modern utilities priced 2000, a Front Street Warwick frame house in good location priced 2000, several Broad Street Lititz houses on easy terms, a property on Orange Street Lititz priced 2400, a modern Main Street Lititz house with conveniences and easy terms, plus bank stock and some 3 percent bonds.
By order of the Orphans Court of Lancaster County executors 28 trustees of Rufus Dolling estate will publicly sell a 5 acre timber tract in Warwick along a public road to B L Snavely’s mill. Property borders Aaron Kline Emanuel Itch Joseph Bucher and others. Sale begins at 2 PM with terms announced by executors Phares G C Kline Wayne J Kline and trustees. T H Kauffman and Geo J Keith clerks.
On Friday November 29 1912 at 430 PM a public sale will be held at the premises known as Giobin Park about one half mile west of Lickdale Lebanon County Pa. The 110 acre property with 72 per cent chi s is near a railroad station gustimill creamery churches school and fertile soil. The land lies within 11 miles north of Lebanon on the Pieper and Tremont railroad. Trains from Lebanon leave at 804 AM 150 PM and from Lickdale at 1 PM 6 PM. Further details and inspection arrangements are available from the undersigned agent for the owner Cumberland St Kebanon Pa rust Co Bldg. Parimners.
Isaac Larah of Penryn advertises mules for sale on behalf of John D. Bear. Prospective buyers may reach him by postal card Ind or Bell phones for arrangements.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.