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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1908
Page
7
A playful verse praising a charming liar who buys books as gifts and courts social moments. The speaker tonally favors deception and whimsy, celebrating a figure who flirts with admiration, gifts, and humanlike vanity amid social rounds.
An exfreighter recalls Katza toa, a Kiowa chief famed for size and speed. During a buffalo herd run and a Apache attack, Katza toa rescues the trader, fights fiercely, and earns a bond of kinship. The giant escorts the trader to safety and later guides him toward home across 140 miles.
The Westminster Gazette reports a Bengali youth Khurdiram Bose was arrested after a police trick. While seated at Waini railway station he paused his rice meal, revealing fear as two constables approached, then attempted suicide with a revolver. The method, used by native inspectors, relies on salivary response when fed rice.
Thousands of savage blackbirds swarm in California cities and suburbs, attacking pedestrians and dogs. Birds dive from trees, peck heads, and swoop with sharp beaks, forcing residents to keep dogs on leashes and seek safety as authorities report heightened risk.
A brief, garbled passage notes a taxi driver in disbelief that Fetter paid $2 for a $2 ride. The text also comments on unchanged features of a fish-nook and a fish lyin element, attributed to the Omaha Bee.
Refugees describe brutal scouring by troops in the Caucasus. Women and children hid in forests and caves for months after invasion as soldiers burned homes and seized people, leaving survivors starving and traumatized in ruined villages and churches.
Excerpt discusses pedantic usage in English tense, comparing how timing is conveyed by context rather than the verb itself. It argues that choosing expressive phrasing, especially with semi tense forms, enhances clarity and vividness beyond strict grammar.
A social leader in an ant colony is mocked as a vanity in a reflections piece. The essay contrasts ants’ orderly hierarchies with human desires for power and social status, ending with a plea for real life over performative leadership.
A fragmentary feature on Cleopatra portrays her as a powerful ruler who shaped river, country, and seaport memory. The excerpt muses on her lasting influence, linking her legend to ancient Egypt, Antony, and grand scenes along the Nile and the sea. The prose also touches on historic geography and Lyell’s geologic measures.
Dr A Calmette warns in La Revue Moz that rats threaten mankind as sewer rats spread across Europe in the 18th century and America by 1865. He cites rapid reproduction from one pair to 1536 in two years and notes rats devastate crops and ports, urging action to prevent rat-driven extinction.
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