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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1912
Page
3
Published by J. Frank Buch Littlz Lancaster County Pa. Subscription rates: one year 21.00 if prepaid, 25.00 if paid at end of year. six months 50 cents. three months 5 cents, all in advance. Discontinuation requires notice. failure to notify implies continuation. Five new yearly subscribers earn the paper free for a year.
A year after swallowing a pin, young Thomas Myers of Lock Haven has it removed from his knee. A bolt of lightning in Washington county topples furniture and strips beds. Cambria coal magnate John C. Martin, who died in New York, founded ventures and a town named Martindale in his honor. Arbor Day proclaimed for Oct 25 by Dr Nathan C Schaeffer urging chestnut blight work. Coal mine output boosts winter orders. railroads shift cars west, raising shipment fears. Carlisle workers told to keep overalls on to save time. An isthmus echo tale spreads as a barn-tuned sound repeats voices three to four times, drawing autoists. Potter county travelers get a five dollar toll bill after lodging in a farmer’s barn. A historic penmanship contest in 158 unfolds with Bales accused of trickery after a staged win to spare a sick wife.
Mrs. Laty narrates a French chateau legend about Henry IV scratching a dated line on a window pane and a later ingenious repair after a guide’s prideable inscription is stolen by an English visitor. The thief is deterred by a tip, ensuring the pane remains in place.
A condensed life of William Walker born May 8 1824 in Nashville Tennessee later editor in New Orleans and California. He led expeditions in Mexico and Nicaragua facing defeats and capture before a 1860 court martial and execution at Fruxtle.
In October 1661 King Charles I joined a historic yacht race from Greenwich to Gravesend and back as a wager against the Duke of York. Hyelyo reported the voyage with his majesty aboard a royal pleasure boat of Dutch origin. The course faced contrary wind and the king lost the wager but recovered the stakes on the return. Various nobles joined the voyage, and the king sometimes steered.
The piece argues that Moorish beauty idealizes extreme fatness, valuing women who weigh 200 to 300 pounds as enviable. It describes fat as transformative of beauty, condemning physical culture and Turkish baths, and praising a life of indulgence as the path to desirability.
The executor of John Evans's will will offer at a public sale on the premises at the corner of Broad Street and Manheim Road in Warwick Village, Lancaster County, four parcels including a brick house, a brick-sided building, a frame bank building, and additional lots with right of way. The sale is set for Friday October 4 1812 at 7 P M with terms announced by Francis Dunlap S.C. Hassler and attorney. Also notices of additional estate sales appear for Shileman residence on South Broad Street Lititz and an Orphans Court sale of Fanny Emsey estate in Warwick on September 21 1912 with multiple parcels and improvements described.
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