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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1912
Page
3
Published every Thursday morning by J. Frank Buch at Broad street Lititz Lancaster County Pa Terms of subscription list rates for one year 1.00 prepaid 1.25 after year end six months 50 cents three months 30 cents prepaid only discontinuance notice required otherwise renewal implied bonus available for five new cash subscribers for one year rewards the collector for their trouble.
Farmers in Snyder county offer potatoes for 25 cents a bushel if dug by the purchaser. Nearby Belleville offers 35 cents a bushel and Perry county 40 cents as a bountiful crop is noted. in Reading two young men rob an army recruitment office examiner’s room. a Glen Lyon hotelkeeper defends his home from burglars. a Pine Summit woman takes her first train and trolley ride to Bloomsburg. a Palmyra paper change hands, and Nazareth to host the Moravian Synod. sheep losses plague Cumberland County, and pocketbook thefts prompt police search.
The Pennsylvania Railroad issued an order restricting all trains on the system to seventy miles per hour, with curve speed limits at various points. The eighteen hour schedule remains, and trains may not exceed the limit to regain lateness. Special signals at curves alert enginemen to slow to forty five miles an hour or less.
The 1862 Cozzen's hotel whist sessions at West Point feature General Scott and a judge pairing to play. After a rare defeat, the judge quips about rusty skill, and Scott retorts that latent talent was the issue, not innate lack.
Dr Wilde of St Ives parish Huntingdonshire left a will directing £50 to buy land in St Ives the annual rent of which would fund six Bibles costing T shillings each. Trustees were instructed to prepare a saucer with three discs on the parish church altar and raffle the Bibles.
Dialogue from Illustrated Bits where Mrs Crawford jokes her husband withholds kisses and money after the honeymoon as Mrs Crabshaw laments his stinginess in the stage cue.
The excerpt contrasts independence in solitude with crowd opinion. It includes Emerson on staying independent in the crowd and a humorous dialogue about a man noting a woman’s laundry mishap as a psychological moment to leave her alone.
Philadelphia Record reports a magistrate hearing where a Teutonic prisoner denies choking his wife and disputes the claim as a feedle choke, presenting his side of the incident.
The undersigned executor of John Evans will offer at public sale on the premises at Broad street and Manheim road Warwick village Lancaster County Pa. Four parcels include a large brick house with two-story brick annexes and outbuildings, a frame bank barn with stables, another parcel with two two-story frame dwellings and barns, and a fourth lot fronting Broad street with multiple depths. Sale is Friday October 4 1612 at 2 PM.
The undersigned offers for sale his residence on the west side of South Broad street at Marion corner on a 43 by 200 foot lot containing thirteen rooms with modern conveniences all finished in hard wood on the first floor. Includes a stable and shop at rear. Built five years ago in best manner. Terms easy. Possession April 1. Apply to 190 James Sesseman.
The story follows Mr. McDougall a pompous Scotsman whose arrogant conduct provokes a local minister to craft a pointed sermon. The sermon exposes his vanity as the crowd packs the kirk and neighbors judge the target of the rebuke. The elder asks for impressions and the reply notes the minister’s fault was not the shafts but the man’s own enormous conceit.
A Washington Star quip quotes Farmer Corntossel about his son Jos not head of class by choice, noting it would take a football team to move his nose if he decided to stand there.
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