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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1963
Page
11
The piece offers work wisdom about business life, stressing that success comes from hard work and cooperation rather than cleverness. It advises keeping a calm, forgiving temper, smiling, and not taking others’ moods personally as key to progress. Have A Good Year.
The STEM reflects on 1963 as a good year with progress toward new industry and a hopeful view of 1964. It invites readers to send news tips and letters to the editor to help improve the newspaper, and thanks advertisers and correspondents for their support.
A collection of home care advice with use cases for appliances furniture finishes and repairs. It covers storing electric blankets avoiding damage to wires cleaning velvet dresses steaming garments door stoppers chalk hole filling plaster repairs and minor window blind maintenance with simple home remedies and techniques.
Contents recount 1922 23 winter with 12 snows and the first snow dates, local incidents include injuries to R M Wolf and Charles McSherry, a sale of a York Springs house, a buck hunt near Mt Victory Church, and a water contamination note from a Hanover plant. Also notes on flower seeds and asbestos shingles care and a home massager advertisement.
A California teacher uses Pilgrim hardships to teach students the east coast voyage tale. A pupil asks why they didn’t come to California, provoking a quip about California being sought after. Lincoln quote contrasts esteem with ambition in a separate thought.
A group leaves a party and each man takes another's hat or coat. Adams takes Bailey's hat, Carter takes Adams's hat, and Denton takes Adams's coat. Bailey must have taken Denton's hat, while Denton took Carter's coat. Carter ends with Adams's hat, solving who took Adams's coat and proving a KN word puzzle.
A 30 year old recap lists turkey goose and chicken giveaways to Mrs. Deatrick Yingling and Kuhn. Wheat prices at 80 cents per bushel. A fire at Frank Ellicker’s shop causes roughly $2000 damage near York Springs. The mercury drops to 10 degrees. Carol singing on Christmas Eve delights New Oxford residents. A fire from an oil lamp destroys Charles Potter’s nine room home near New Oxford. neighbors rescue the occupants. Calithumpian serenade honors newlyweds Baker and Alt-Hand of Abbottstown with generous tips. William Sherdel plans a beer garden at home after leaving Sherdel’s cafe in McSherrystown. Knights of St. George elect officers in New Oxford. Nearly five inches of snow falls Tuesday. M.S. Yoho sustains rib fractures at Cross Keys in New Oxford. M S Yoho and Karl Weaver noted. Mail-hauling contract awarded between Western Maryland station and post office. C A Feeser reduces milk to nine cents a quart and five cents a pint. A humorous note on mousetrap plans and a kitchen burglar rounds out the page.
A teacher warns that a promise to believe a child at school should not extend to home. The note stresses caution against accepting all statements from a child as truth in either setting. It emphasizes critical listening and balanced trust.
Jumbled remnants show a slogan and a greeting in a sleepy, incomplete note. The text reads go back to sleep and bury him. a New Year exclamation appears alongside stray words and punctuation.
The New Oxford area churches publish service times from Lutheran to United Brethren. Listings include Rev. Eugle at Pirot Lutheran, Brindle at Mampton Charge UCC, Bolen at Sacred Heart Cenewage, Arnoldin at Immaculate Conception, Shettel at Salem UB, Mummert at Lincolnway Full Gospel, Kennard, Justice, Stover and other pastors with church schools and worship times coordinated through December 30 confirmations and installations.
Readable church notices list multiple denominations and parishes with service times and school sessions. Stations include United Church of Carlet, Zwingli, Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Paradies, Seventh Day Adventist near York Springs, Latimore Lutheran Parteh, Chestnut Grove Wellsville Wellsville EUB, Mt Royal, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran, and Upper Core, detailing worship hours and church schools for each location.
A page lists multiple churches including Church of the Brethren in Eider East Berlin with evening worship and prayer meetings, Mummert's and Trostle's Sunday School and worship times, Brethren in Christ Pastor Victor Nichols with Sunday School and worship, Paradise Hettzschwann with multiple services, Mt Royal Full Gospel with Fellowship service, Lower Censwage and Wolga mouth Brethren churches, Hermony Grove Chapel with Bible study, and Rev C Jack Orr.
Twenty years ago Zeigler a New Oxford sailor who spent 16 hours in wreckage off Guadalcanal returned home for Christmas to visit his parents Mr and Mrs Q O A Zeigler for the first time in 25 months. Pfc John W Wolf of New Oxford in England with MP unit promoted to corporal. William Ensor sold his Berwick Township home to Mr and Mrs Rupp of Hanover. Francis F E Clayhaugh Ben Neauville completed boot training at Sampson NY. William N Wulick resigns as New Oxford assessor after many years. Mrs John Liversberger of Edge Grove sustains a fractured right arm.
Ten year old column compiles reader questions on ink eradicators and fabric care. It also reports local postmaster changes, home decorating prize winners, and York Springs Fire Company officers for the coming year. Persons named include Sgt. Charles Griest and Sgt. Ralph Hartlaub, plus residents of New Oxford and York Springs.
The text offers quick remedies for linen stains using raw onion, soaking in cold water. enhancing stewed prunes with peach syrup lemon juice and rind. adding lemon oil to rinse water to add oiliness to dust cloths. and asks how to make homemade glue. The content combines practical household hacks and questions about glue.
A reader asks proper response to late Christmas cards and how to acknowledge them. The column suggests sending a personal note appreciating the memory and explains you need not formally acknowledge every card. A fiancé asks where to live after marriage. the counselor recommends living with the wife’s parents. A gown versus dance attire inquiry advises girls to dress up if others do. A teen engagement issue advises parents not to intervene and let the daughter handle the breakup.
Floyd W. Hicks, extension poultry specialist at Pennsylvania State University, advises poultry producers to scale feeders, waterers, and nests to their flock size, ensuring adequate resources for growth.
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