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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
2
A knight arrives at a hermit’s hut and meets a youth. The hermit, dying, explains he gave his life to aid a courier and others seeking rest. The youth stayed behind to serve, while the knight learns true wealth lies in helping others and finding happiness in service. Annie Johnson Flint, In The Youth's Companion.
The narrator portrays Hermione as twenty five appearing younger with striking looks and zero tenderness. She contemplates choosing a husband while admitting she will soon be bored by the constant presence of one man. The scene depicts Hermione plotting marriage while feigning warmth and sympathy to others.
A homemaking column argues joint finances and shared goals for a happy home. It urges one family pocketbook, mutual understanding, and budgeting over costly gifts, plus personal effort to keep home neat. The piece cites farming life and the value of wholesome love at home.
A Norwegian inventor proposes a whale style apparatus to drag along the sea bed baited with pork to lure the sea serpent. When the monster bites the line a bomb would explode, dragging the creature to the surface. He seeks 2500 dollars for trials and aims to begin next May off Norway with London support.
German publications adopt foreign terms from American English as shown by words like manager society swell champion training meeting snob weekend loafer striker mob full dress smoker return ticket and bank check rendered as bank scheck in Chicago News sources.
The article explains color luminosity and warmth. It ranks colors yellow orange green red blue purple by light reflectivity and describes how warm colors enlarge coziness while cold tones recede. It notes room atmosphere depends on color characteristics and ceiling perceived height.
President Wilson argues against corporate morality and insists on punishing individuals for private and public harm. He calls to break up monopolies, rediscover the responsible actor in all business, and rely on personal accountability rather than government supervision to restore liberty and public morals.
The Atlantic piece by Charles F. Dole asks if honorable and useful speculation exists. It outlines three justifications for speculation, praising inventors and promoters yet warning they often forget their social duty. It argues resources should belong to society, not a few individuals, as speculators claim ownership of lands, waters, and minerals.
Charles Robinson of Grand Prairie devised a method to save a sparse timothy seed crop by letting the mixed wheat and grass stand until timothy ripened. Harvesting August 8 produced seventy six bushels of wheat and twenty bushels of timothy seed, with screenings catching timothy and total value about fifty dollars.
A quirky note describes watches being baked and frozen with a playful line about IT arriving momentarily while the creator finishes a batch of watches. The fragment hints at a whimsical crafts scene and a tech joke within a bakery setting.
Antwerp and Amsterdam top a European health index while Madrid sits at the bottom. The survey highlights urban health factors across major European capitals.
An El Cobre copper mine shaft reveals an iron pickaxe and crowbars now copper due to copper sulfate dissolution by sulfuric acid in circulating water. The iron was replaced while impurities remained. wooden handle stays intact, the shape preserved though enlarged.
A woman who collects lamps uses a large stationary bronze lamp as a safe. An electric bulb glows at night through colorful glass, while no oil touches the bowl. A spring releases a top lid to reveal a keyhole and a metal box interior fitted to hold gems.
A Mexican Herald report describes Gendarme No 876 discovering a woman's severed forearm and hand in Las Vizcainas alley. The hand beckoned, jewelry marking high social status, skin details suggested a non average origin. He placed the arm back and fled to the fourth comisaria. ambulance removed the limb.
The article notes the present-day girl carries two concealed weapons in hat pins. Crown breadth prompts extending pins to ten inches, inflexible metal to pierce heavy straw hats. Gold heads remain common, with jewels on fancier designs.
A Chicago inventor plans to use nitrous oxide gas to stun hogs for humane slaughter. The second item notes a fig tree grown in Maine, borne by Mrs. A. Q. Good of Topsham, producing about a dozen large figs this year.
A setter at Exeter New Hampshire escaped with only the lees of two teeth after a burrowed digging mechanism ran beneath an electric car. Motors hung within a few inches of ground, yet the dog survived with minor injuries.
French scientist Cammille Flammarion reports results from tests on red green blue and white light effects on plant growth. Lettuce showed growth 15 times faster under red light than blue, while blue light demonstrated strong preservative effects on vegetation.
The Kansas City Journal recalls Sol Miller’s style warnings for writers. It condemns misuse of terms like menu resume and nee and frowns on repeated or borrowed phrases such as wee sma hours and trip the light fantastic. It captures old newsroom etiquette and zeal for original phrasing.
Local Colt history explains a camel skeleton unearthed near Spofford Junction. In the early 1840s a Federal program imported camels to Texas and New Mexico for transport. The beasts failed to serve, burros were used instead, and camels were released to forage and die, leaving bones as a reminder of the experiment.
New Hampshire's Cy Sulloway remains the largest member of the House, standing over six and a half feet tall and weighing nearly 350 pounds. He towers over peers including Ollie James of Kentucky and Frank D. Currier, and chooses to eat lunch on the public side of the dining area, where access is open and where money is accepted by all.
Rome will gain a zoological garden modeled on Paris plans with shaded walks flower beds and tropical plants. Currently no proper zoo exists in Rome only three decayed cages near the Capitol steps housing lions.
A railroader recounts constant indigestion and hunger strike of dieting. After trying many remedies, he began eating Grape-Nuts and Postum’s Perfect Food, noting quick appetite relief, higher energy, seven pound gain, and no further indigestion. His wife also joins, praising the product line from Battle Creek, Michigan.
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