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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1902
Page
6
A Collier's Weekly verse fragment evokes a somber autumn sky a sea wind and a dreaming wife with a blue sky and bright smile. The piece contrasts stillness and unrest while musing on paradise’s right for a dreaming spouse.
In camp at night two Western volunteers Osbourne and Wade face a perilous outpost duty near hostile Filipino lines. After a tense vigil and a deadly straw draw to settle a dispute, Wade dies as Osbourne contemplates his own sacrifice and bears witness to a grim fate aboard the San Francisco Argonaut.
Paris physician Dr Laborde reportedly revived drowned or asphyxiated subjects using rhythmic traction on the tongue with a special device. In experiments a dog revived after chloroform as respiration ceased for minutes, and in a human trial tongue traction and brief anesthesia restored sensation after two hours.
A unique New York school trains beginners and current workers in window dressing interiors card signing and advertisement writing. Employers sponsor tuition and students from distant districts travel for short courses. Most complete in four to six weeks with a two week window trimming add-on offered for 25 dollars.
The New York Herald reports a misadventure in Hainan where a newly imported European cannon was tested from shore. After the first shot missed the boat and landed in water, officials moved the boat to that spot and fired again, successfully piercing the vessel, illustrating a misplaced emphasis on repositioning rather than precise aiming.
The celebrated German painter Adolf von Menzel, famed for his disdain of honors and dislike of women, accepted a playful postcard request from a Berlin sitter at a beer hall. The incident ended with a nod from Menzel and a quip about enjoying a good large meal at home.
The London Express notes the hat once called billycock or howler reflects a likely corruption of bully-cocked from the eighteenth century. It explains the term means a dashing young man’s style and that the correctly written form billycack lacks a hyphen.
A quirky New York News item notes imagination as a powerful possession and asks how often it adds a thousand dollars to a man’s monthly profile, reflecting a light human interest tone from the era.
A Detroit Free Press gag line humor piece notes a misquote about fleeing to live to “hirt” another day and flirters contrasted with staying to be gagged. It centers on a family scene where a father denies pie and a son pleads to keep a secret from mother.
A brief quotable exchange appears in the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune with the Wise Guy asking the Cheerfei Chump if he was ever unconscious. The Cheerful Chump responds that he was aware of nothing, delivering a wry, ironic line.
A fragmentary exchange from the Chicago Record Herald and New York associated press columns discusses why a man named Mons could not stay together. The dialogue blurs time and memory as a lover of animals is mentioned in a quip about self-regard and fate.
Whimsical exchange shows an explorer fearing frost more than cold ahead of a lecture tour in Waslington Star. The narrator asks about dreading the Arctic journey, and the explorer replies frost is the true hazard when preparing for talks.
Excerpt from Punch shows Bohemian criticizing wasting time haggling with a tailor, arguing payment failure. The other voice counters the desire to minimize the tailor’s losses, noting a lack of conscience. The exchange highlights financial anxieties and moral tension in a humorous cartoon dialogue.
In a schoolroom exchange the teacher asks if a father was satisfied with a report. The dull scholar replies that his father hadn’t expected to be satisfied, though he wasn’t disappointed either. Philadelphia Press reports the anecdote.
A mock catalog of household and social vignettes from newspapers. A bride celebrates her mother’s visit as the groom jokes about love and cooking. A lawyerly quip about Lat ends in wit about whitewashing. A shopkeeper laments a missing comma while boasting his millions.
A Chicago News piece recounts a stenographer and a bookkeeper following beauty magazine rules for workers. The narrator details rigid routines from cold baths to long dressings, meals, naps, and nightly preparations, only to find the schemes backfire as the same guidance shifts toward steak and walking. The tale satirizes impractical beauty regimes for working women.
An article excerpt from the New Orleans Times-Democrat quotes a hunter who praises raccoon meat as the strongest wild meat flavor. He contrasts it with venison bear possum and pig, noting coon meat remains distinctly wild even with seasoning and is best when properly prepared.
The Baltimore American notes a librarian’s witty reply to the question of the world’s most in demand book. He quips that Carnegie’s bankbook would be the top choice, replying with humor while continuing his work.
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