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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1905
Page
6
A narrator recounts a yearlong silence with Muriel now engaged to another man. He grapples with unfulfilled love as Muriel seeks friendship and a future with her fiancé Jack. He envisions a grand novel while cherishing memories and a pledge to remain a steadfast guardian.
A hunter recalls a superb Adirondack buck killed near Northville within 10 miles of Benson. The 400 pound deer dressed at 300 pounds after killing, with seven wounds, sold for 33 dollars in Northville and later changed hands in Gloversville en route to a political barbecue.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes the eminent legislator telling his wife he was insulted by being invited to attend a flimsy physical farce. He contrasts liking musical farces with this act calling it a bad fare. The remark shows his bitterness and frustration with the event.
Researchers using glass-bottomed boats locate a vivid submarine forest in Monterey Bay California with sea plants described as sea oranges green ribbons horse tail and sea pompons. Some plants reach 30 feet tall.
A quoted Harper's Weekly passage laments feminine fashions treading masculine lines this autumn. It notes leather garments bowler hats and walking sticks as popular gifts for girls while preserving dainty attire, observing nature assigns men a secondary role on certain planes.
The piece describes pale pink blouses with yoke embroidery, coats with fullness below the waist, white linen shirt waists with slips, and diaphanous scarves. It notes a straw colored taffeta petticoat embroidered with flower baskets, and discusses blouse styles including a surplice look and inset tie-ends. A blue batiste blouse features a tiny dragon motif and fine Japanese embroidery.
A historical account lists forty five football fatalities and numerous injuries over five years, tracing most deaths to unchecked rough play. It details broken necks and backs, concussions, skull fractures, and spinal injuries linked to mass plays the author criticizes as dangerous and against Roosevelt’s protests.
An entertainment for girls introduces a candy pull where riddles based on names of sweets lead. Invitations urge old clothes and aprons for an old fashioned candy pulling bee following the riddle game. Plain white cards will hold each set of riddles.
Few know many American women sew fine waists yet many eke out income this way. A particular lingerie waist, sheer material, hemstitched tucks, yoke, and French knots is described as exquisitely dainty. American waists are not sold in lots and prices do not drop like foreign handmade waists, which are often poorly finished inside though priced from $20 up.
Clark University professor Charles Chamberlain argues that women surpass men in many traits. He lists abilities from acting and adaptability to memory, patience, imagination, and diplomacy, claiming women possess greater genius in politics and stronger religious devotion.
A British biologist argues that females dominate in biology from invertebrates to higher vertebrates. He asserts males are often embryonic or rudimentary, with females usually larger and more neurally or reproductively developed. The piece notes insect species and bee biology illustrate female superiority.
At Union Station last night J P Sparker of Squirrel Hill missed his 9 oclock Eastbound train after his big greyhound ran along and barked at his cab. The amused crowd watched as the owner, unable to take the dog, delayed his departure and finally rode a later train with the dog back toward Squirrel Hill.
A Gary Gulch Vindicator editor, seeing Comanche Pete armed with two revolvers, confronts him after spotting a scathing town marshal note. The editor aims his weapon and insists Pete surrender, asserting he authored the term hustler used in the item.
I R Nelson of Winchester New Hampshire owned a mounted fox killed in January this year. The animal resembles cross silver and woods gray foxes but differs with a six inch square black shoulder spot, tall underparts black with silver tips, red only along the spine, white-tipped tail, four inch ears, standing seventeen and a half inches high and weighing twelve and three quarter pounds. Judges deem it entirely distinct from woods gray or cross fox due to longer coarser hair.
A Philadelphia Inquirer quote defines a girl’s education as complete only if she masters sewing cooking mending gentleness time value dress neatness secrecy restraint self reliance stockings respect for elder years bread making housekeeping tidiness avoidance of gossip home happiness temper control sick care baby care cobweb removal prudent marriage for worth sound reading exercise and wholesome literature to be a light hearted fleet woman under all circumstances.
A tramp in Paris identified himself as Nicholas Glulot a former University of Paris lecturer. Investigators found he had astonished science with discoveries and had been sent to the Congo to study topo graphy before fading from view. He pleaded for a week in prison for regular food and a bed.
A Philadelphia North American excerpt notes a Chinese boy growing a queue as a notable event and humorously claims the queue is used to draw arcs and circles in geometry class, while contrasting with American boys and their trousers. The piece treats cultural caricature in light tone and reflects period attitudes.
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