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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
2
Print notice outlines subscription terms 800 per annum in advance 81 50 if unpaid within year renewal if arrears paid. Discontinuance only by publisher option. Advertisements priced reasonably with yearly discounts. Job printing offered from labels to big posters.
A string of fatal incidents includes Samuel Thompson crushed in a Embresville cave-in while quarry blasting near Prescott Adam Rhein 41 of Stoudsburg killed by wagon wheels Margaret Russell age 2 died after swallowing lye John Davis blinded chasing a hog and Geo Ash injured Henry Howe murders Edw Runner then surrenders to a constable and more in Harrisburg York Freeland and Hanover area notes including ship orders and local accidents. multiple drownings electrocutions and suicides also reported with nearby plant and farm losses.
York County Commissioners received a communication from the New York Lunacy Commission about Emily Wonder a 46 year old woman once at York Almshouse who wandered through Carlisle Harrisburg Baltimore and Philadelphia before landing in Islip New York. Authorities there want to send her back and letters to relatives failed to get a response. She carried 400 dollars deposited with the Hanover Saving Fund Society and 46 in cash.
Democratic nominee E D Ziegler challenged opponent D F Lafean to public debate on campaign issues at a Dover mass meeting. He vowed a house to house canvas and urged Democrats to support the cause for the next three months or risk losing jobs to Taft Sherman and Lafean.
Eminent medical scientists say life can extend beyond current limits with advanced knowledge. The critical period is 0 to 60 and proper body care prevents early death. Electric Bitters is promoted as a vital aid after 50, revitalizing every organ. Guaranteed by dsp. T. Atker Druggist. 50c.
Kreider a P R R repair foreman chased a large copperhead to a rock along the Susquehanna river and uncovered a den housing forty venomous snakes. He dispatched them with a club and escaped uninjured. Other brief items note a New York warning by a claimed prophet, a self-inflicted death after a threatened marriage, a man killed during blackber rying in Shippensburg, a seven foot live snake incident, cattle feed investigations prompting brand withdrawals, and an endorsement for Bucklen's Arnica Salve with a 25 cent price.
Intending to quit farming Henrietta M Fickes G RR Thompson and Auct announce a public sale at her residence on the road from New Chester to York Pike near the Carlisle road one mile south of Pines church. Items include horses cattle hogs farm machinery furniture and household articles. Also offered is about 70 acres of land in two tracts with a stone house outbuildings and fruit trees. Sale starts 10 o clock a m with terms announced.
Notice is given that the partnership operating as Drs. Sheetz and Seaks has been dissolved by mutual consent on the 16th day of Benes. Tsun Wull, 10.
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