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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1919
Page
2
The passage analyzes price trends from 1865 to postwar years, noting sharp wartime declines, postwar peaks by 1866, demobilization-driven falls, and a long upward drift from 1878. It contrasts agricultural beginnings with industrial growth, and local versus global markets, concluding that future outcomes remain uncertain.
The Shaney brothers from Birdsboro defeated a Strawthreshers team 6 to 3 in an unusual family line up. Father spectator, nine brothers played as a unit with Paul and Frank Shaney hitting home runs and Frank adding a three base hit while Prank pitched and struck out.
Community notes report Jay Ray and Paul Shields of Marietta were sentenced to Huntingdon Reformatory for stealing automobile tires. Terre Hill plans a September 27 welcome home festival with the Spring Garden band of York. Mt. Joy’s Rebecca Hoffman, 74, rode a train for the first time to Mt. Gretna park. L. E. Ryder sues a Myerstown insurer for $1000 over fire damage to Disston building. Walter L. Gregg reports new potatoes in his Tobacco cellar. Jixchange Hotel Lancaster closes due to prohibition. Walter Chandler of Neffsville pleads guilty to assaulting his daughter under sixteen. fined $100 and jailed five days. Mullen and Becker to France to aid Pittsburgh-based steel mill project. Hast Calico township high adds four-year course. Rev. Marburger remains principal with wife as assistant. Columbia curfew ordinance discontinued due to objections from residents and limited policing. Train near Vinemont prompts near-miss for O. B. Swartz. Terrn Westerhof and companions fish Fortesque NJ, including a small shark. Joseph H. Williams near Andrews’ Bridge expects 200 bushels of Russet potatoes from half acre. Mrs. G V Ripple of Lancaster to teach in Sarasota Ma public school while husband begins trucking business. she is Millersville graduate. Mahlon Ranck seeks Lancaster township Justice of the Peace nomination. former Franklin and Marshall student and Navy veteran.
Reported farm production in Montgomery county and York county includes milk butter eggs and potato shipments to major cities. Local incidents include a broken neck cast a saved child and a fatal shooting in Northampton. A one man trolley debuts in the Lehigh Valley and a golden wedding in Lycoming is celebrated.
John Roberts aged 102, born near Peach Bottom on March 2 1817, suffered multiple injuries during a daily Wilmington walk. A former chestnut level shoemaker, he moved to Chester County, served in the Union Army in 1861, and has three children, 241 grandchildren, 36 great grandchildren and two to three fifth generation descendants. He credits longevity to not being lazy and maintaining health.
Hunters from Philadelphia visit Willistown to shoot groundhogs, killing many as dens and warrens line fields. The pace is described as high with animals found near the Willistown trolley stop and along adjacent roads and fields.
An advertisement proclaims Beecham's Pills quickly strengthen digestion stimulate the liver regulate the bowels and improve health by working with nature. It claims the largest sale of any medicine in the world and notes sale in Howea at 10c and 25c.
Mrs. John D. McLaughlin of West Chester reports two quilts on display at the Chester county fair won first and second prizes. One quilt she began making since her second birthday, without glasses, and she has sold several for wedding gifts with more orders pending.
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