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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1914
Page
2
Local retailer promotes warm ready made clothing for fall and winter and highlights an elegant line of piece goods for home made suits. The ad emphasizes comfort and quality and invites customers to browse the selection.
A long list of spring and fall weights including rain coats medium in weight, plain and striped options, popular shawl collar chichillas in blue or gray from a leading eastern clothing house. The assortment covers hats caps shirts ties collars suspenders gloves hosiery underwear suits cardigan jackets sweater coats and related dress or workwear items with competitive pricing. The seller touts thirty eight years of experience in serving customers.
Howard Merkley of Palmyra elected clerk at Keystone National Bank Manheim. A York packer buys 1914 Washingtonboro tobacco crops at 16 to 20 cents per pound. Maytown seeks trolley links to Marietta and Lanaster county system. Christian Bucher Rapho planted five seed potatoes yield 7 pecks in 1918 and 40 bushels last year. Mount Joy fire insurance shows $100000 policy by Charlie Zeller. Dr I H Betz to lecture at Penryn Lutheran church. born nearby 76 years ago with ancestors buried in the local cemetery. Manheim Burgess H H Berntheizel resigns. no successor yet. Elizabeth Schmidt Eden township goes to Germany to nurse wounded soldiers. Major J W Yocum long-time Columbia Spy publisher. neighbor W Hayes Grier runs Columbia Independent. Abraham Ruth of Salisbury Ind back to old home at 79 after 61 years away. McClain League youth baseball fund balance $569.79 preceding a Washington D C trip to view Congress.
The article explains that a housefly bears its weight through 1600 to 2000 tiny hairs on each leg. Each hair leaves a grease spot on surfaces, allowing adhesion on glass or ceilings. The fly also accumulates dust and must clean its feet daily to stay mobile.
An old country couple in town on a holiday noticed above a stair door the inscription James Simpson Ground War and the woman exclaimed it resembled a steam roller run deathly scene. The fragment appears in the London Mail as a curious local street sighting.
A fragment from a London Telegraph item shows a flirtatious exchange where a young man asks to convey his feelings in writing and the woman replies that written words remove any chance of evasion. The tone suggests a light social vignette.
Fragmentary dialogue hints at a dispute with opposing viewpoints. The garbled line suggests a misinterpretation or miscommunication between speakers. No verifiable names, dates, or places are readable to ground a fuller summary.
The Wayfarer lauds Lititz Moravians in Lancaster County, noting the Lititz springs, church quadrangle, Linden Hall Seminary, and historic houses. It highlights the choir system, cemetery, and wartime hospital link, plus distinct room company living for girls, and praises Lititz pretzels and simple faith as peace for the weary.
The 1915 crop seeding starts this week with August and September sewing obsolete due to Hessian fly. It is estimated 140000 acres will be sown needing 280000 bushels of grain valued at 2 dollars per bushel.
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