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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1923
Page
7
A vintage style directory blurb lists 26 East Main and 84 East Main in Lititz and Ephrata Pennsylvania with two phone numbers, suggesting a local business or service listing from an older publication.
A terse note from a correspondent discusses similarities between two events. The piece hints at cultural or social parallels, mentioning ceremonies and preparations and the idea of planning an evening gathering. Specific names, dates, or places are not provided in the readable text.
The transcript discusses Spain adopting the garrote for executing criminals and notes a British comparison with a similar method used by footpads in London. It cites Old Bailey judgments and remarks by Sir Earnest Will about crime’s wartime rise and the possible use of the cat for armed burglary, arguing for its deterent effect.
The article notes the average pygmy height near five feet with some taller individuals, found in eight to ten Central African sites. It contrasts popular exaggerations, describes shared traits such as agricultural neglect and use of poisoned arrows, and cites sources like Stanley. It also touches on ancient oil use and its early industry origins in the United States around 1858, with references to Babylonian, Chaldean, Greek, and Egyptian contexts for oil and asphalt.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger excerpt discusses hope as a motor of perseverance. It argues that foreseeing possibilities sustains effort and that gloomy fatalism paralyzes progress. The piece notes that seeing far horizons drives ambition, while a perpetual pessimist may hide behind a negative mindset.
The fragmentary note traces paper origins to straw in 1828 at Meativile Ps and the rise of printed characters for the blind over a century. It mentions steel weight metrics, pencils from Elizabethan times, word separation, and the Bible distribution by the British and Foreign Bible Society totaling over 15 million copies in many languages.
The United States Department of Agriculture bulletin outlines methods to harvest and store ice in very cold weather. It describes making artificial ice by freezing water in galvanized cans or paper bags, and freezing in an ice house by flooding sawdust with water.
Farmers are advised to keep manure dry when stored for weeks to prevent nitrogen loss. Fermentation leads to ammonia release, reducing fertilizer value. Do not allow manure to ferment as this wastes nutrients and diminishes fertilizing effectiveness.
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