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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
3
A poetic fragment from Waverley Magazine speaks of two lovers choosing parallel, winding routes yet walking toward a shared fate. It envisions a tryst, love’s enduring vow, and a dawn after darkness, with fate guiding them toward a united horizon.
In 1850 a party of thirty two overlanders in California faces a grizzly guarding a foal after a night camp near a spring. Tom Rae burn leads a dangerous pursuit into a rocky ravine, aided by Jim Carroll and guide Dave Ingram. Using rockets and a coordinated crossfire, they kill the massive thousand pound bruin and recover the colt’s body and hide.
The Philadelphia figure Josiah W Leeds was noted for lifelong opposition to ostentation and immoderate funerals. He valued simplicity and modesty, often citing a graveyard epitaph about a plain monument and the impossibility of money bringing a loved one back, per the Washington Star.
A New York Sun quip questions Stella and Bella in a playful vignette about social polish and a dinner etiquette joke. The remark centers on Stella as a souvenir fiend and Bella as dreadful, noting a dinner guest who took away the ecook.
Stephen Bonsal analyzes the anti American boycott in China, its links to Chinese guilds and labor unions, and how commerce from silk to railway concessions fuels tension. He cautions Washington to engage rather than clash as guilds influence viceroys, tariffs, and foreign firms.
In a Texas region study by Arthur Stiles the Guadalupe Mountains are confirmed as the state’s highest, with El Capitan at 5690 feet. Professor R. T. Hill previously noted the range as tallest, despite earlier elevation errors corrected by USGS field observations in 1904 near the New Mexico border.
The piece notes mustard as the oldest condiment used by Egyptians for digestion and widely consumed by Asians and various cultures. It mentions peddlers selling it in Solomon's time, Christ's parable reference, and Norman Anglo-Saxon reliance. Describes mustard as food and medicine, thriving globally and used as salad or seasoning from ground seed.
A Harper's Weekly quotation about a Western railway ride where passengers vent their frustration at the company. One traveler, on a free pass, jokes that if service does not improve he will buy a ticket and join the others, highlighting theme of fairness and reform on travel.
A woman on a Grand Rapids train asks the conductor how long the cars stop at Union station. He quips that they stop four minutes, from two to two, to two two. The passenger wonders if he thinks he is the whistle.
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