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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1911
Page
6
American Agriculturist presents a DIY project by James B. Duncan showing a bookcase to hold ten books. The article details step by step cutting notching drilling and assembling uprights shelves brackets side strips and decorative nails using specific lumber sizes for a sturdy display piece.
The article advises grading eyes and culling small or ill shaped birds for cooking or incubation while keeping only the best for market. It notes pigeons and game birds, discusses egg collection for incubation, and stresses recording parentage to breed good fowls. It warns beginners tend to overfeed in winter and stresses three year round feeds for vitality.
The article explains how traction engines replace wagons to haul bulled vines from fields to a cannery at a convenient factory site. It notes the engine's idle season use, enabling efficient labor for large pea crops bound for processing.
Elis Jones notes in Judge's Library that without tradition there was no guide to moral or social norms for Adam and Eve. No libraries, no old families, no historic statesmen or dates to learn from. They had to create history themselves.
A compiled list shows multiple organizations in Lititz area meeting weekly or monthly in Rudy's Hall or nearby venues. Entries include Litite Castle No 19 A O K of M, Lodge No 263 K of P, Litite Lodge No 1060 I C O, Garfield Castle No 16 K, Morning Star Temple No 7 Ladies for the G H, Washington Camp No 659 POA, Stevens Post No 517 G A R, Lititz Springs Council No 197 IOCA M, Littiz Borough Council, Lititz School Board, Littitz Hose Company No 1, Warwick School Board, Lititza Agricultural Mutual Fire Insurance, Lititza Y M C A, Royal Temperance Legion, Court Liditz No 26 F of A.
Trolley times are listed from Lancaster and Lititz with daily and Saturday special departures. Lancaster Lititz and Manheim routes run from early morning through late evening with multiple hourly and half hour intervals and special Saturday patterns. First Manheim car starts at 7:30 A M with subsequent game schedule as above.
We are bound to satisfy our customers by handling only high grade goods. A large stock includes Company Coal Hard Medium and Soft, lumber of all kinds, slate, Victor Wall Plaster, Calcium Plaster and Pewter Sand, Granite Roofing and Monarch Roofing, Mutual Rubber Canine Anvil Ground Alum and Fine Salt. Also listed are Ritsolf Rock Salt and table salt, plus Griffith and Boyd Phosphate.
A London Answers tale attributes the change to Cardinal Richelieu who, after a dinner guest used a sharp pointed knife to pick his teeth, ordered all table knives to have rounded points. By century’s end the pointed blade largely vanished from tables.
Take your oldest son into partnership to share profits and responsibilities. If he is ambitious, he will gain interest and pride in the farm work, but remember partnership means he must share profits as well as duties for his motivation to grow.
A London Graphic report notes fields near Evesham and Balmakewan show crop gains from electrical treatment. Telegraph poles with high tension wires and a dynamo deliver discharges described as a plant massage. Wheat and oats yield increases of 23 to 30 percent are cited, with strawberries and tomatoes also tested.
Dr. Francis Ward describes a pond with an observation chamber allowing him to photograph fish unseen from within. He finds many silvery fish are mirrors of their surroundings, appearing as gray ghosts to others unless light reveals them, with pike sensing prey at surface reflections.
England’s Cream Ponies are the sole surviving royal horses from Hanover stock once brought by George I. Victoria’s Hanover search failed to find fresh stock, leaving creams as England’s last link to the historic royal studs. Reputation, as Burke notes, is the cheap defense and ornament of nations and the nurse of exertions, a coin of genius and duty to earn with justice.
A classroom exchange recalls historic campaign imagery. A pupil describes a log cabin procession with a colored man tied on top, and claims a live coon was fastened to the roof, reflecting sensational wartime era tactics.
A quoted line from the Washington Star emphasizes that one gains value by keeping promises rather than hoarding money. The remark, attributed to Uncle Eben, suggests personal integrity enhances reputation and credit.
The quote discusses moral courage in admitting one’s faults, emphasizing that confession is required not only for wrong actions but also for those deemed indimious and foolish. It reflects Rousseau's view on honesty and self-accountability.
On June 4 1920 railway timetables list weekday and Sunday departures for Lititz Reading Patadenia Lancaster Columbia and Lebanon. Trains run 7 58 A M and 1 98 P M during weekdays with additional evening departures to Lancaster and Columbia and Sunday services at 7 58 A M and 7 03 P M
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