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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
2
New Oxford item announces a Thursday publication by H. J. Smith. Subscription is $1.00 per year in advance with $1.10 if unpaid within the year. Discontinuance requires publisher option until arrears are paid. Advertisements billed at reasonable rates with yearly reductions. Job printing offered from labels to posters.
Reports from the region describe deaths from accidents including a miner struck by debris at Clifford colliery and a man run down near Mine Hill crossing. A shooting in Whalen injures a Biondi. a suicide in Tamaqua. legal disputes over beer shipments and fines for fishing violations. Incendiaries threaten farms in Lancaster County and a large barn fire prompts a $500 reward. Prohibition measures close miles of the Maryland front and a New Market man faces fines for gigging mullets. A missing Yorker’s corpse surfaces in the Mississippi near St Louis with business papers and union card found.
A A Chisholm of Treadwell New York reports severe illness and nervous debility but credits Electric Bitters with full recovery. He says he is back to business and improving daily. The tonic is offered by Ep T Auken druggist at 50 cents.
Mrs Edward G. Brownlee aged 24 died in York from pneumonia after marrying Wednesday at midnight. The bride, Miss Alice Eldridge, daughter of Mr and Mrs H M Eldridge of Hanover, wed a Philadelphia chemist who had worked in York. Their courtship lasted months before the postponed ceremony.
Alvin Rowe, proprietor of the National hotel in York, discovered a newborn infant on a sofa in a second floor parlor. He encountered a red haired woman with a brown veil leaving the scene, whom he believed deserted the baby. The child was cared for by Mrs. Rowe before police transported it to the Christian home.
The Frst Province of Sigma Chi will hold its convention in Gettysburg on May 20 21 and 22. The province includes eight active chapters and five alumni groups spanning Pennsylvania Maryland and the District of Columbia. Delegates will come from Penn Lehigh Bucknell George Washington Lafayette Dickinson and Penn State with alumni from Pittsburgh Harrisburg Baltimore and Washington.
C E Miller of McSherrystown shows a Black Hand letter sent from Hanover on Apr 1 demanding a payment of a figure between 250 and 25000 dollars. The note, meant as a joke, unsettled his family though Miller remained unfazed.
Louis Rogers aged 74 a former member of the Black Horse Cavalry Sixth Virginia in Lee's army, after years of training horses, is forced to beg in Altoona Pa. He and Poor Director Pensyl, once a Meade army soldier, met again after 45 years on the Gettysburg battlefield.
Miss Minnie Clark of Bellefonte, 19, dies at Bellefonte Hospital from carbolic acid in a suicide attempt blamed on lover’s disappointment. In a farewell note to her parents she named the pallbearers and the minister.
Harry Paulston of Camp Hill reappeared Saturday after seven months away from home. He said on his wedding night he left to deposit money and vanished after reaching Harrisburg. He recalled only brief fragments of travel through Cleveland Atlantic City and Philadelphia.
Mrs. Fannie Conner of Georgetown Tennessee credits Dr. King’s New Discovery with curing her persistent cough and lung weakness after other remedies failed. The testimonial notes the product restores sore lungs and offers 50 cent and one dollar bottles with a trial bottle free.
Nellie Joyce 34, daughter of Charles and Mary Kline of York, died at Emergency Hospital Washington at 9 AM after accidentally ingesting wood alcohol instead of medicine. She came to Washington two weeks ago to demo in a department store. her husband J A Joyce followed a week later. Also, 19 year old William Conner, airbrake inspector for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, was killed in Scranton when thrown from a handcar.
The April term begins Monday April 27 with about forty cases. Lena Thomas, administratrix of K B Thomas, and the sale returns of W Cashman executor are to be confirmed. Joseph B Mechling guardian is to have a private sale confirmed. Hanover and McSherrystown Street Railway Co obtains a decree by specific performance and release of right of way. $500 paid into court for widow and heirs. Citizens Trust Company of Gettysburg appointed trustee for Mary Hook with $500 bond. guardians appointed for Bertha May Hook and Goldie O Hook with $900 bond.
An advertisement claims L and M Paint covers defects in prior work and lasts 10 to 15 years. It uses pure linseed oil binder and zinc oxide with white lead, mixing three quarts of oil per gallon. The cost is about $1.20 per gallon through P A 8 Small in York as agents.
The article tells of VanSize born near Bermudian in Adams County son of Dr. Joe VanSize. He moved to New York as a teen, solved a difficult arithmetic problem for Equitable Life Insurance and earned a position as their actuary, later rising to officer status.
Advertisement claims Dr Miles Heart Cure strengthens heart nerves and muscles to boost circulation. Testimonial from KS Mary C Hahler of Sullivan Missouri describes severe breath difficulties and relief after using the remedy. Sold by four druggists with money back guarantee from Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
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