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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
2
A nostalgic poem by Edmund Vanee ling in the Woman's Home Companion narrates a fanciful tale of a sugar coated cocky moon hung high for good children to reach by sleeping. The Moon Man bakes another moon from the sun and children eat it bite by bite as stars become crumbs.
In a Roman night scene a Syrian youth named Onesimus seeks work and finds a Christian circle. Apostle Paul guides him toward the gospel and urges return to his master. Philemon later frees Onesimus and his sister, uniting them with hope in a wealthy Christian home.
An essay extols farming as a vocation that endures hardship yet yields continued work and sustenance. It argues farmers face cycles of drought and panic but remain rooted to the land with independence and personal stake in the community, despite lacking large fortunes.
A Kentucky Justice of the Peace marries a runaway couple who arrive at his home. After the ceremony the groom offers the only cash he has, a silver dollar, explaining it was saved for honeymoon expenses.
A brief Denver style dialogue captures a clash between a critic and a defender of press freedom. The first citizen accuses papers of fear, while the second cites a personal letter that was not published, noting he would not sign his name.
Statistics indicate fairhaired individuals generally have less physical strength than dark haired people yet tend to outlive them. The finding contrasts hair color with longevity, suggesting genetics or lifestyle factors influence lifespan beyond strength.
A medical column dispels myths about hydrophobia rabies risk in New York. It notes only 16 percent of danger comes from animals with rabies and explains the rarity of contracting the disease from a single dog.
The essay by G. Elliott Flin r reviews rabies symptoms and warns against sensational treatments. It discusses hydro phobia as rare but deadly, notes transmission only via inoculation, and cites Pasteur Institute data on treatment success and the rarity of true hydrophobia.
In Rochester Herald an opinion urges schools to teach students to protect nestlings and birds. The piece cites forest insect data and calls for a national bird day in May, hoping schools influence children and adults to curb predatory pets and safeguard wildlife.
A Scientific American piece critiques gluten bread claims, showing how grinding and washing flour reveals starch content and debunks gluten purity. It explains how gluten is not a pure carbohydrate and warns that many so called gluten breads still contain starch and are marketed with dubious claims.
The river changes course to a new outlet southeast of the former mouth. Dr. D T MacDougal notes the bore upstream may vanish as water reaches sea along a gentler current. Fifty miles of new mud flats may form and a brackish lake fifty to sixty miles long could develop.
Colonel Evans recounts buck fever as a deadly urge in hunting. Wheeler, a novice farmer, shoots a deer straight ahead but a buck on a bluff is killed instead when he fires at a fleeing doe, ruining his reputation as a marksman.
A gull dropped a clam from about fifteen feet fifteen times until the shell opened and the gull could eat the clam. The observation, cited from W L Finley in American birds, is discussed as possibly explained by inherited instinct or intelligence.
A young speaker declares his aim to make listeners yearn for better things and the critic replies that they do though many long to rest at home. The exchange captures a push and pull between hopeful rhetoric and weary desire.
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