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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1935
Page
6
Terms set at 1.00 per year in advance and 1.80 if overdue. Descriptions continued only with publisher option until arrears paid. Failure to renew at end of term is a new engagement. Rates for non-county riders at 1.50 in advance or 2.00 overdue. Advertisements inserted at contract rates with liberal reductions for contracted advertisers.
Classified ad style notes STOVE WOOD FOR SALE at $7.50 per lord with delivery. CHARLES H BUSHEY lists address 1226 R 2 Aspers PA and phone York Springs 82 R 2. Also mentions LIONEL Electric Trains cheaper at J C Tanger Hanover and other ads for poultry supplies and an electric washer at Tanger's Hanover.
Emma Wassem leaves for a West Chester convent. Mrs. E. M. Root receives cancer treatment locally. Memorials and deaths include Mary Hart and Wm. Leathery. typhoid and pneumonia cases recur. Lectures, marriages, sales, and thefts pepper the local scene with school vaccination drift and public notices amid farm trades and church events.
Forty years ago Nelson Lott of Straban Township was critically injured when a pole broke, leaving him in serious condition as the incident was reported in local notices.
A vintage guide explains baking a fruit cake in an automatic electric range. It instructs placing the cake in a cold oven, setting the temperature to 275 F, and baking for 4 to 5 hours with careful constant heat and gradual mixing of butter sugar eggs and fruit.
The column lists residents moving homes from Granite to York and to nearby farms, and notes illnesses such as quinsy and a felon. It records prices for wheat rye corn oats clover and timothy seed and hay. Several marriages are dated late November and December with names and places, plus a death of Cicopha Little at age 13.
The document lists prices for wheat rye corn oats clover seed timothy seed timothy hay rye straw flour bran middlings chop and more ice formation surpassing last winter The text also records John A Oller taking a seat as a new member of the Poor Directors and Elias Fissel succeeding Daniel Spang
The article lists changes in local offices including Stock succeeding Ed Bender as secretary and H Picking retained as treasurer with Dr ONeal as physician. It notes multiple sudden deaths Chas Clunk near Abbottstown Peter M Haverstick 76 Straban died while feeding stock and others. It also mentions fundraising entertainment for a school organ and recent marriages Luther T Pottorff New Chester and Bertha Yohe. W Taughinbaugh and Rosa Raffensperger. W G Little and Sarah Bucher.
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