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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1925
Page
2
An illustrated historical note credits the sun as the driver of California’s raisin industry in the San Joaquin Valley. It explains how sun drying concentrates sugars in grapes, transforming green fruit into dried, nutritious raisins and enabling the creation of raisin sugar, levulose, while highlighting the sun’s essential role in this agricultural miracle.
Blair County Game Fish and Forestry members moved an estimated eight to ten thousand catfish from a nearly dry dam near Warriors Mark Huntingdon County to the Juniata River. Fish measured one to fourteen inches and were hauled in milk cans by tight mesh seines.
Mrs. Clara Moul of Manover withdrew her offer of a farm near that town for the Lutheran College for Women site after no definite action was taken by church leaders before September 15. The site had been approved by visiting engineers and architects at the church officials' suggestion.
The gravity railroad in the Lackawanna Valley served coal transport to tidewater from 1829 to 1898 with 29 planes and both road and wire. it was extended to Archllald and Olyphant, and horses pulled cars on dead levels. Olford I Millard, a Washington DC visitor, gathered Civil War era notes at York County Historical Society on Gen Early and Gettysburg.
A 15 year old Ephrata student was forced to quit school and work to support his mother and another child. An unnamed local man discreetly placed funds in a bank with instructions to pay the boy each week equal to his earnings so he can return to school and continue his studies.
Four Denver youths Charles Firestone Ambrose Petery Warren Althouse and Claude Walter teft spent Sunday afternoon in Firestone’s machine at Bowers Beach. They returned with 35 croakers and trout and a drum fish weighing 31 pounds. A bald eagle was presented to Lancaster Zoo as a gift from TD Landis Miller Quarryville measuring five feet five inches wing to wing. The Young Men’s Christian Association of Lancaster seeks 70 000 to enlarge its building this fall after raising 170 000 last spring. total need estimated at 250 000. Ephrata requests a motorcycle for the new police chief Haas to patrol the borough more efficiently.
Jonas Nissley the Sage of Landisville famed for using a forked peach twig to locate water helps Ephratans during a drought. Scientist Prof. Herbert Beck of Franklin and Marshall College weighs in saying he cannot explain the phenomenon. The town, after failed wells, built a concrete reservoir guided by Nissley’s divinely inspired method.
A discussion on the common cold as the top persistent problem, its transmission through air and contact, and the role of public health measures and daily habits. It notes air quality limits and lists factors lowering body resistance such as overeating, constipation, hot rooms, and poor sleep, linked to higher pneumonia risk.
The Lititz Record publishes a sworn statement detailing ownership management and circulation. Editor Ralph M. Buch owner Ralph E. Buch is identified with mortgagees and other security holders noted. The document was sworn before Notary J. B. Ure on October 5 1925 with commission expiring January 7 1927.
A fragmented 20th century style article notes peanuts likely originated in Brazil and spread worldwide through trade and exploration. It cites the National Geographic Society bulletin, mentions Archdeacon Thompson and Mills aiding China’s peanut crop, and highlights the peanut’s global impact on trade, cuisine, and agriculture.
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