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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1907
Page
1
Sunset's Rescue from Apache Captivity
In this Washington Star tale set in a New England home, Dr. Loyd and his children John and Mary befriend Sunset an Indian ally. After being abducted by Apaches while exploring, the siblings endure captivity until Sunset orchestrates a stealth escape with ponies and a planned owl call, returning them safely to their mother. The story centers on trust, peril, and the rescue led by Sunset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonathan Loyd
New England
Far West
John
Mary
Dr. Loyd
Old Sunset
Sunset
Nye
Loyd
Washington Star
White Pine Shortage Hits Shoe Box Makers in New England
The New England shoe trade faces wood shortages for packing boxes as forests shrink. Government investigations follow rising prices and demand, with 1905 box production worth 57 million dollars nationwide. Massachusetts houses 138 box firms consuming 300 million feet yearly. Lynn uses half a million dollars in boxes annually. White pine scarcity prompts calls to grow more timber and secure waste lands, while carton and paper box costs rise 20 percent amid higher demand from candy and breakfast goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
United States
Massachusetts
Lynn
Gifford Pinchot
National Bureau of Forestry
New York Evening Post
Compositor Seeks Work in Singapore Daily Mail Notice
An underemployed compositor writes a respectful plea to seek work in the Singapore Eastern Daily Mail. He asks the recipient to consider taking him on as a compositor day or night, expressing poverty and hope for a favorable reply. He closes with regard and long life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
Eastern Daily Mail
Noblesse Oblige and Upper Class Dining Cares
A Queen’s remark on constant consideration of neck and arms while dining in good company highlights social expectations among the wealthy. The quip contrasts upper class anxieties with those of the middle class, reflecting satirical class tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puscd
Strange Disappearance of the American Horse
Harper's Weekly surveys the puzzling history of horses in the Americas. It traces prehistoric horse fossils from California to the Dakotas and questions why horses vanished before reappearing with Europeans, noting cold climate, diseases, and a vampire bat as possible factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North
South America
New World
Whitney Mission
Americas
Alaska
Patagonia
New Jersey
America
California
Oregon
Gulf of Mexico
Carolinas
Texas
Florida
Mexico
Mississippi
Rocky Mountains
Europe
Cortez
South Africa
Harper's Weekly
The Chilling Reply
In a Washington legal fight a lawyer notes a colleague’s illustration as like snow falling everywhere. Opposing counsel retorts that the comparison also covers all ground quickly, leaving the argument overshadowed by the fast spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harper's Weekly
The Peppery Kind
Reverend Amos Fletcher, a keen naturalist with fungi expertise, faces social friction in his parish. While visiting Miss Locke, she quips he would have visited sooner if she were a toadstool, highlighting his delayed attention and irony from a local anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos Fletcher
Locke
England
Curious Mining Method Advances In Connecticut Kaolin
In a deepening kaolin mining operation near the Housatonic River Connecticut workers drill wells from fifty to about two hundred feet. Two pipes are used water under forty psi is forced down the smaller pipe and returns up the larger, carrying roughly five per cent solids of which about seventy five per cent is pure kaolin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Housatonic River
Connecticut
House fly as possible spreader of tropical diseases
A hospital note discusses growing suspicion that the common house fly aids in spreading infectious diseases from tropical climates. It notes increased probability of the fly’s role in disseminating disease due to current knowledge of vectors.
Unmarried Rates Highlight New England and Mid-Atlantic
In the North Atlantic division the New England States, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania show thirty one percent of men over twenty unmarried and twenty six point two percent of women. The figures reflect a substantial share of the adult population remaining single across these states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Atlantic
New England
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Zebra transport proved possible in Central Africa
A plan by Captain Nys to use trained zebras as draft animals over tsetse fly country failed after a massive herd was driven into a corralling stockade. Despite initial success with 1700 trapped, lions and other dangers caused many zebras to starve or die before calm adaptation to harnessed work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
South Africa
Zambezi
Nys
Congo
Captain Nys
Central Africa
Pontiac and the Detroit Garrison Peace Council
On May Day 1763 Pontiac the Ottawa invited the Detroit garrison commander to a peace council. A loving Ojibway maiden then warned that sixty warriors had hidden rifles under blankets to attack the fort when Pontiac signaled. The warning arrived the day before Pontiac and the warriors planned their move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladwin
Pontiac
Detroit
Thomas B. Gregory
New York American
Ottawa
A Hero of the Bush and a Young Soldier’s Sacrifice
An account recounts a colonial trooper at Orakan who sacrificed his life to cover two native elders’ retreat. With an unloaded gun he repeatedly faced advancing force, allowing the old men to escape into the forest, where he died. The deed is praised as supreme courage and devotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Firth
Orakan
Henelt
Enigmatic Semliki River Monster Tales From Africa
The Detroit News Tribune recites a local legend of a forest dwelling creature on the Semliki River. It supposedly awaits villagers at dusk to grab captives with a hairy arm drag them under to a hidden lair. There the man is gagged with leaf strips to expel water and become the monster’s slave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Semliki
Africa
Detroit News-Tribune
New Test for Blood Coagulation by European Chemist
A test by Plotkowski uses diluted animal serum in a tiny tube with a drop of blood. After 45 minutes a precipitate forms if blood and serum are same species, or the blood dissolves otherwise and serum turns red. Old stains in fresh human serum were shown to be human blood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plotkowski
Philadelphia Ledger
New Yellow Flower Variety For Hardy Borders
A new yellow flower variety Italy vogue for the rickery and hardy borders. Plant behind shrubs like bery, transplant from flats after the third leaf, and shift as needed until four inch pots. Start early indoors to ensure first year bloom, then provide strong sandy soil with good enrichment. They tolerate partial shade and bloom all season.
Improved snapdragon varieties for seasonal blooms
These are large improved snapdragons from grandmothers era valued for single season growth. They need rich sandy soil and plenty of well rotted manure. Sow thickly where they bloom, thin to six inches apart after third leaf. Succession blooms April to July, flowering through season. good as indoor picks in flats with rich soil.
Phlox Drummonds New Hybrids Impress Garden Fans
The new phlox Drummonds hybrids are praised for larger umbels finer color and continuous summer blooming. Plant in open ground with fine soil, thin to four inches for massed beds or eight inches for open displays. Remove weeds and deadhead faded blooms to prolong flowering.
White Daisy Invasiveness and Control Observed
A discussion notes white daisy as a troublesome weed in fields spreading year after year. Cutting before seed ripens stops spread, while mowing as hay and feeding animals offers a remedy. The ox-eye variety is invasive, yet valued for beauty by some, with risk to farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. L. Risley
Strawberry bed care and renewal guidance
The strawberry bed needs renewal every two to three years to prevent poor fruiting. Reset plants with care to separate perfect and imperfect varieties, plant in hills, keep the bed clean and well cultivated, and ensure firm soil around spread roots. Select large varieties and well-drained soil for lasting, delicious fruit.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Noblesse Oblige
R. Holt-Lomax
Phlox Drummonds
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