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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
2
Advertisement notices announce New Oxford titers published weekly by H. J. Smith with annual subscription terms and advertising rates. The مض content notes pricing, discontinuance rules, and printing services for labels, cards, handbills, and posters.
A Skippack man ate twenty six bananas in one sitting while a red hot stove fire claimed John Ackley of Elmer. Early spring signs appeared with blue birds. Eva Schell died after a lamp fire. Taneytown’s Josiah Flagle, Civil War veteran, died aged 74. A Pleasant Grove barn blaze killed a boy who lit matches. Wilson Grove of Scotland and family suffer illness as Mrs. Au dies at their home. Indiana county horses starved outside, later found alive after ten days, subsisting on snow.
The first passenger train over the Frederick to Lewiston stretch ran Wednesday to test laid tracks. The Lewiston to Thurmont survey may be abandoned for a new Rocky Ridge route intersecting Emmitsburg R R, with seven miles of shared tracks to Emmitsburg, limiting the new build to ten miles to Gettysburg.
In Hanover February 15 a hearing in Com vs Martha Bair on an assault charge filed by Wm Brandstaedter was held before Squire Self. The case stems from a dispute within a judge fraternal group. Brandstaedter accused Bair of making offensive remarks and slapping his mouth after she heard him insult Mrs Levi Wise.
Mrs Eva Uucapher of Grovertown Stark County recounts nearly fatal coughs cured by four one dollar bottles of Dr King's New Discovery. The distributor Ep T Aucker Drugist guarantees the remedy with a free trial bottle offer.
The Post Office Department will ban sending newspapers to in arrears longer than one year starting April 1. Subscribers must pay up to date or lose service. Papers must request payment from all readers as the government seeks to reduce second class costs. The paper will bill those in arrears soon and urges cheerful compliance to avoid legal collection. The aim is to keep readers without triggering forced back subscriptions.
York February 15 David Heckert an elderly prominent resident was found murdered at his home 48 East Market Street. He was 83 and died from blunt force head injuries. A niece Miss Throne Heckert and Miss Anna Herman raised alarms after hearing cries but saw no further detail. Police found the room locked with the key missing and suspect a robbery of about 50 000 dollars from a closet. Also noted are the death of Edward A Ginter 48 from Dillsburg and tetanus illness of Miss Maude Hartman 18 of Manchester York county. Manufacturer Win A Fertwell of Lucama NC is quoted about Electric Bitters.
J Edward Reiling of the Second Ward Gettysburg formerly of Cumberland two is noted in this brief item.
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