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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
14
A reflective piece on love’s rough patches in courtship. It discusses pride, absence, and reconciliation, noting both partners must adapt. It contrasts unyielding lovers with couples who seek shared leisure and good sport to sustain marriage, suggesting practical compromises.
Advice on marriage compatibility stresses shared interests in activity and companionship. It notes that couples benefit from shared walks and sports minded partners, warning that misaligned tastes can strain a relationship if one side detaches.
A moral essay warns that kissing without engagement harms girls. It contrasts foolish and wise maidens, condemns insincere suitors who beg for kisses, and argues that kisses should precede marriage and altar vows to protect a woman’s value and future prospects.
The article outlines how the cut and condition of a diamond determine value. It explains 58 facets, table size, and how imperfections like girdle nicks, scratches, feathers, fractures, and carbon spots reduce brilliance and price. It cautions against expecting perfect stones given rarity.
The text lists flaws in diamonds including rough edges on the girdle, a scratch, a small nick, thick edges affecting color, a feather from faulty crystallization, a fracture, carbon spots, a bubble from air, and muddy patches along the grain. It warns to seek good color and brilliancy with a well cut stone.
A doctor reports that exposing wounds to the rays of an ordinary incandescent bulb for eight to nine hours total yields notable improvements. Dr Schottelius notes strong immediate local effects and progressive overall benefits as days pass.
Horticulturist Lewis Shaw Jr claims daily tea feeding revives potted plants. He says a morning and evening cup of cold tea per plant spurs rapid blooming, noting multiple buds opening simultaneously as shown in a photograph.
Ronald Cray, a Western engineer in the city, shelters Helen Ware a falsely accused woman involved in a fatal stabbing. As a courtroom verdict nears, Helen reveals the truth about the murder in a dramatic confessional moment proving her innocence and enabling their marriage.
The article posits that primitive humans regarded the horse chiefly as game and food rather than a means of transport. It suggests early horses were small and unremarkable in appearance and not used for galloping or travel.
The Philadelphia Inquirer mocks a critic who called Pavlova's $50,000 toe a hoof noting the critic is ill natured and loud at night while discussing a fateful remark.
In trench stories General Joffre's quiet humor shines as staff note hair turning white from strain. He agrees the reason lies in mental strain but adds that war times lack familiar toilet accessories one relied on in peace.
The final arrival of a black silk or pongee office coat offers a loose, throat to knee design meant to cover attire and protect clothing. It is praised as tidy looking and sensible, avoiding the unattractive stereotypes of women’s wear.
An old-fashioned man recalls his wife’s pledge to quit smoking before marriage. He kept his word but notes change in Custom as he now tries to persuade her not to begin smoking.
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt contrasts consumer costs for the poor and wealthy in 1913 and today. It notes bread and basic foods hold value while luxury items like blue foxskin coats rise sharply for the rich, and furs and beaver fur prices soar.
Professor Bottomley reports that peat treated with bacteria can replace manure by a factor of fifty. He says soil lives like plants and contains about 4,000,000 bacteria per grain of fertile soil, with science aiming to separate beneficial from harmful ones to maximize nature’s bounty.
In Macon News reporting a brisk exchange hints at a domestic mix up. A man questions a woman's identity across the street while naming items from family members including his wife’s dress his daughter’s hat and his mother in law’s parasol.
Omar and Henry discuss Johnson's business, guessing it is pneumatic. Henry asserts it is pneumatic and jokes that Johnson runs it on wind.
The article notes next Easter falls on April 23 and only once more in this century will it be that late, in 1943, when Easter lands on April 25 the latest possible date.
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