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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
1
Burges Johnson adapts a farmer’s anxious tale about planting seeds in a diary recorded in Warper's Magazine. The speaker notes days pass since planting and treats seeds with diligent care while wondering how sprouts will know their path. An angle worm is crushed, underscoring the fragility of early growth and the farmer’s effort.
In Beartown the elderly Grandpapa Bruno recounts his perilous youth a trek toward a southern great mountain. Two footed hunters attacked his wife and cubs were taken, leaving him with a ruined paw and a life saved to warn others. The tale ends as the youths decide to return home for safety.
The American Jeweler details London ivory sales at docks with tusks laid out for inspection, notes waste none, and explains how buyers select by class for billiard balls and inlaid work. It covers processing, weighing, price trends from 1870 to 1906, and factors like soundness, color, climate, and origin affecting value.
A Field writer notes the white crested kalij as common in Mussoorie and Kumaon, describes unsporting, skulking habits, and difficult shots in steep ravines. Winter hunting offers best sport. high elevations yield the snow cock, a large mountain partridge, paired and stout with grey plumage and chestnut wing borders.
Auer von Welsbach reports a new alloy that emits showers of sparks when struck with metal and can ignite gas and alcohol-soaked wicks. The iron cerium lanthanide mix reaches maximum sparking at about thirty percent iron, with potential applications from lighting mantles to igniting explosives.
A would be poet recalls a rare encouragement from his editor, who told him a penny for his thoughts after catching him in a brown study. The exchange appears in a Philadelphia Press item detailing the author’s struggle and small moments of support.
A New York Sun report extols kitchen scissors for vegetable and fruit prep. It claims nine of ten tasks beat a knife, from dicing apples to trimming cold meats, shells, and seafood. It emphasizes speed, uniform cuts, and hand-saving benefits for housekeepers preparing dinner and salads.
A stout over-dressed woman boasts to a friend about money bringing a country house and livestock. The other replies with polite sarcasm as the talk turns to hens and fresh eggs, revealing social snobbery and class pretensions.
The French government runs a tobacco monopoly that yields about 93 million dollars annually, highlighting a state-controlled sector that dominates a key revenue stream for the nation.
In Mrs. Seavey’s basement dining room a group of readers gathers over a serialized novel. The medical student vanishes with Mrs. Romaine's Brother as speculation about Henry, Muriel, and a fiancé unfolds. Tension grows as secretive glances hint at further twists in the unfolding tale.
The Michigan copper country houses the three deepest vertical mining shafts. No. 3 at North Tamarack reaches 5200 feet, No. 5 lies 5080 feet deep, and Red Jacket at Calumet & Hecla reaches 4900 feet with copper lode found at 3800 feet. The No. 4 incline shaft of Calumet & Hecla extends 8290 feet from surface.
Sir Home Gordon declares it hopeless to form a Parliamentary eleven when golf teams can be found. He notes the lure of golf is so strong that on a Friday in June 350 legislators planned to play golf over the weekend, with golf discussed in lobby and smoking rooms as a major topic.
Report notes revived activity in Welsh lead and state industries and outlines related labor movements abroad from San Francisco unions to British colonies. Mentions barber, printer and typographical unions forming in Barbados Trinidad and British Guiana, along with job bureaus and wage disputes.
Richard Croker leaves Ireland for a U S visit. Harvard President C W Eliot resigns effective May 19 1909. Howard Gould wins chrysanthemum honors at Chicago National Flower Show. Seth Low becomes American Asiatic Association president. Dr Sven Wedin claims Bramaputra and Indus sources. DeLancey Nicoll notes Gould income drop to 400000. Walter Fitch resigns Calumet and Hecla mining role. Duchess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein wed to Prince August William of Prussia. Kaiser article questioned by R W Gilder. Kenyon Cox noted painter and writer, son of General Cox. Bulgaria’s czar convenes National Assembly amid ceremony. Henry P Davidson and Prof A P Andrews return from Europe with Monetary Commission.
In China natives preserve vegetables by salting and sun drying. Hams are cured using an alkaline ear and salt. Pickled goods are kept with a mud salt saltpeter and soy bean sauce mixture.
The Portland police court plans to manufacture a stove using revolvers seized from criminals, turning weapons into a functional heating device.
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