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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1905
Page
3
Poem by G Linnaeus Banks printed in New York Weekly expresses duty to those who love and know me. It pledges to learn from suffering, emulate noble figures, and live by reason and compassion. The verse links humanity, virtue, and divine purpose with social duty and self improvement.
A narrator recalls a ruined romance with Margaret Vane and Tom Brent, his rival and lover, then guards her from a haunting at Vane Hall. He notices Margaret’s fading health as a ghostly visitor returns, testing trust, courage, and their fragile bond.
A man in a dimly lit hall pursues a misty gray figure believed to be a ghost. It leads to a burglar caught by two policemen, shots fired, and a dying thief named Tom Brent. Margaret lies unconscious. she later dies a year later leaving her estate to the narrator as an atonement.
A Brentford police witness explains that a youth called a crow acts as a lookout while others rob, warning of police. The term, thieves slang, is illustrated with a 1862 reference to a woman who kept such a watch. Some speculate a link to crows or rooks signaling danger.
Ex Secretary of the Navy John D. Long jokes that public speaking bores both audience and speakers yet says he enjoys delivering remarks. He compares himself to an amateur actor who dislikes acting but must perform on stage to avoid sitting in the audience.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer joke recalls a young man who allegedly took 360000 from a New York bank denying the theft while joking about a potential blood relation to the President. The comment highlights media satire on high profile embezzlement cases and political connections.
A London milkman covers his daily route on foot pushing a three wheel hand cart. The cart carries milk cans and various measurement jugs as part of his delivery routine.
A San Antonio anecdote recalls Colonel Joe Fitzpatrick brother of Governor Benjamin Fitzpatrick. He plays a dinner joke on an incessant caller by serving eels with skins on and claiming they are black runner snakes. The guest flees in nausea and tells others Fitzpatrick has gone crazy, never to return.
A West Philadelphia woman crafted decorative hanging flower baskets from two nail kegs. Holes bored in the keg sides hold wires and plants, creating hidden floral displays. Her husband jokes the baskets resemble kegs, but vines and blooms hide the resemblance.
A packing-house executive group reveals a cautious mis management claim after a partner reads a document. An investigating committee is formed to handle the issue.
Dr. Austin Peters head of the Massachusetts cattle bureau says rabies is an epidemic among state dogs unseen in a decade. In the last two months he records twenty-nine hydrophobia cases: twenty-five dogs one cow two calves and a pig. The spread appears confined to the eastern part of the state.
In a shop a mother with a boy and a girl share ice cream. The boy asks if the mother's is good and the mother assures him. He then reveals his own is finished, looking sad as his plate sits empty.
British Army officials faced a public disclosure that during the Boer War they bought one pound tins of jam that weighed only twelve ounces. The issue emerged when 1,850,816 surplus tins were sold at war's end, revealing irregularities in wartime procurement.
For the first time on record Rhodesian cotton is to be placed on the market large consignments being now on their way to England.
Busy Shoffield notes Sheffield probably employs more workmen in the steel industry than any other city in the world and highlights the city's industrial clout.
The report surveys diverse items from around the world and United States. Topics include education in Missouri and San Francisco, London taxes, English plans for rifle training, Tokyo rail funding, Gorky family stories, Island Point Vermont canning output, Italy's dwelling prize, Colorado alfalfa yields, Percy Prather's modest burial costs, Naphtha conference losses in Baku, a maritime oyster case in Annapolis, and the Etonian link of Thomas Lynch.
A gray dress skirt bore a stubborn grease stain from railroad grease. Kerosene removed the wet spot, then fullers' earth was used and dried. Repeated treatment left no trace of the stain, which did not reappear as grease spots often do.
In Fredericksburg Roosevelt says his current trip will have taken him to all states while in office. The New York Tribune notes this would be a record not matched by any recent president during his term.
The Chicago News notes that after the grand jury’s carven indictments, Packers counsel have methodically built a dense web of technicalities, refining their defense hour by hour as they confront the case.
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