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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
2
Hershey, Pa. will establish a market house with a space for farmers to bring supplies without taxation on occupied space. The move follows the Keystone Exchanges report outlining the market’s role in supporting local commerce and agriculture.
Richland Fire Company bought a Seagrave motor fire truck for 11500 dollars. Jerome Emerick, a farmer near Host in Berks County, found a toadstool weighing 22 ounces. Gaysport, platted on Will Flallid land, has 4 residents with no church, lawyer, doctor, policeman, or bank, while Hollidaysburg nearby offers them all.
Voigt and steward announce a new girls club in Union County occupying the Witlow Hotel bar leased by the Goodfellowship Club. The clubroom, to be furnished, will host meetings and social hours within a week, amid the area’s oldest church structures and logs grouped at corners.
Manheim will host a December poultry show by the Manheim Poultry Association. Jacob Stober of Ephrata plans a cold storage plant. John Auker sold 31 acres in E Cocalico to Benjamin Hildebrand of Reading for 1800. Richwine farm of 92 acres in Clay township sold to Jos Shirk of Martindale at 185 per acre. Late H H Moore of Lancaster wills 14000 to his wife, with half to Lancaster General Hospital after her death for a Harry H Ela Moore room to support a scout.
An old advertisement touts Nown's Kidney Pills as a trusted remedy for kidney discomfort and backache. It urges prompt attention, lighter meals, rest, and a kidney tonic with neighborly endorsements. The copy references Lititz addresses and claims the pills are widely available.
In Lancaster and neighboring counties iron history runs deep with the Doanes and the Rutters. The piece spotlights John Fritz, born in Londonderry Township, Chester County, as the father of modern steel in America, who built the Cambria plant in Johnstown, then Bethlehem, introducing Bessemer converters and the three high rail mill, shaping American rail and naval steel.
Famine in ancient world regions often arose from limited arable land and widespread impact from a single failed crop. During Middle Ages Europe, transport limitations worsened crises, but modern steamship and railways now connect vast food supplies across distances and prevent broad shortages.
Anna Balmer Myers of Philadelphia daughter of Mr and Mrs J B Myers of Manheim writes Amanda A Daughter of the Mennonites set for sale October 1 Her earlier work Patchwork drew favorable comment and was well received in literary circles.
Philadelphia, Pa claim by Mrs Ida Stewart that years of back pains bearing pains and fainting spells ended after taking Favorite Pills in Lotion Tablets Healing Suppositories from Dr Pierce's medicine. She urges suffering women to begin using the remedy and to obtain it from neighborhood druggists.
Water absorption varies widely among stones from 7 percent to almost zero. Coarse sandstones and pumice absorb large amounts, while quartsite granite and many eruptive rocks are nearly impervious. A Vermont Tennessee and Georgia marble is almost nonabsorbent. The second item recounts a lovers quarrel under starlight ending amicably with a mutual parting.
Dealers in antique household goods bought the late Sarah Myers’s effects at Bareville featuring a table at 220 dollars a chair without a seat at 24 dollars and many linen, coverlets, a blue coffee cup, crochet work, stone jug, Baron Steigel wine glasses, and other items fetching notable sums while captions and jokes reflect local wit.
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