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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
3
Poem expresses a deep exaltation of romantic love as sacred and supreme. The speaker praises a beloved's silent soul as richer than any earthly song, invoking divine wine and cosmic longing while naming Edna Kingsley Wallace and publication context Putnam's.
An Englishman returns across a sunlit plain to find a poor boy tending a shrine and sick cows. The boy, son of a holy grandfather, speaks of miracles, faith, and duty to heal the sick in his grandfather’s name, while his own illness worsens as the shrine’s future looms.
The piece contrasts truly social clubs like White's and the Garrick with larger ceremonial or proprietary clubs such as United University Oxford and Cambridge and Carlton. It notes that genuine clubs foster easy familiarity and neighborly chat, while others foster isolation. newer clubs can imitate old exemplars, exemplified by the Bachelors.
A Scientific American method advises fastening the print to a board and brushing off dirt, washing with water containing carbonate of ammonia, rinsing, drying, then reversing on the back. Moisten the paper with dilute vinegar and wash in calcium chloride solution, rinse again and dry in sun to yield a perfectly white print without damage.
The article traces the concept of the all big gun battleship to prewar U S practice. It credits target practice improvements in the United States, range estimation challenges, and calibres as factors. Lieutenant Commander Homer C Poundstone drafted the Feasible and Possible plans, leading to the Dreadnought era before Britain and Japan built their famous ships.
The piece argues that women View of voting differs from men, focusing on home-based concerns like water purity and street cleanliness. It notes Denver activists pushed for civic improvements and urges municipal government as business, not politics, with unions between administration and business supporting open late saloons.
A reflective column compares sports fervor among college fans to Parisian grandeur, noting the sacred status assigned to baseball and football. It observes athletes as heroic figures and mocks the hunt for universal fame, ending with a hint that the true artistry will reveal itself in the score card of the game.
Russian of today who preaches unorthodox sobriety and honesty is jailed in a cloister prison. He is confined in a slimy narrow cell with a single greenish window, denied pen and paper, and deprived of contact with guards or fellow prisoners. The only hope is death, as some martyrs wait long for it. One man named Shubin, an Old Believer, spent sixty-three years of life in Solovetsk Monastery fortress.
A historical survey traces the Berlin 1878 settlement and its Balkan outcomes. It covers Bulgaria's rise under Ferdinand, Russian influence, and Austria-Hungary’s gains, plus Macedonia plans, the Oriental Railway dispute, and Bulgaria’s 1904–04 occupation of sections of the railway amid a Turkish-German lease.
A collage of trivia notes covers topics from the British Museum shelves to banana markets, Brazil's cotton mills, and Robinson Crusoe’s naturalization papers in Boston. It recalls Nipponese temple fasting, long river-span telegraphs in Washington, a colossal Jersey City coin, and early punctuation history from Aldus Manutius.
In Ballinagh a famed butcher known for tough meat asks a customer if the meat is for frying or boiling. The reply says it is for hinges for the stable door, a punny Cotter tale quoted from Tit Bits.
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