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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1920
Page
8
The piece traces a business idea built on Honest Service and Good Values that grew from humble seed stores to American Stores Co. The company’s expansion across four states is praised as shielding the public from unscrupulous food profiteers. It questions current grocery costs without naming specific figures.
The piece surveys changing loyalties and social jokes, noting politics, gender roles, and casual phrases. It recalls Park Patton’s injury from a Lincoln Highway prank and includes quips about men, women, and dogs, ending with a playful exchange about trouble.
The Boxboard and Keath team defeated Oneida 8 to 1 in the Industrial League title game. Brobst’s nine showed strong pitching by Fralich, while Enck underperformed. The win earns Brobst two silver loving cups as season closes amid low crowd enthusiasm and sportsmanship from Oneida.
In Mandalay Burma a large crown or thi was raised to the summit of a new pagoda amid a multicultural crowd. Buddhists from China Himalayas Laos Chan and Siam witnessed the ceremony with stalls, diversions, and a bamboo incline guiding the hundreds of pound ceremonial cap to the top over six days of ascent and a seventh to fasten it in place.
Description of sponge varieties with Syria sponge valued for cuplike shape. Divers using bells or cork jackets harvest sponges from Mediterranean shores. Sponges are washed and treated with sulfuric acid as they whiten. A section notes weary sentiment toward war display at London Crystal Palace museum with few visitors and a touching scene of a war widow and daughter.
Husqvarna factories in Sweden report an annual saving of about 400 tons of coke by using surplus power from a hydraulic station. Electric generators run at night to heat 44,000 gallons of water stored in a subterranean tank, with daytime hot water circulated through the shops. The system provides 12 hours of heat daily and uses coal firing only in extreme cold.
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