25 Feb 1898
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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1898
Page
1
George I Montgomery writes in Harper’s Weekly that true bravery shows in serving others and forgiving through suffering. He praises the noble, strong who endure disease and world-weariness and still strive toward light, faith, and straight paths to God.
A lifelong Barnborough mail carrier recalls a romance at a white cottage, Miss Bessie Wilson and John Keen of the post office police, Keen's disappearance in Lough Foyle, a telegram of his death, and a financial inheritance that changes the widow and daughter’s fate.
The piece recounts colonial gender imbalances and how Virginia planned to supply wives to settlers. It notes that shipments included ninety young women and sixty more, sold as a commodity at high tobacco prices, with debts for wives treated as prestigious obligations.
A narrator recalls sending a man to Brighton to help ailing Miss Bessie. The man, John Keen, returns from a dangerous secret mission alive and prosperous, having aided the post service. He receives payback from the postal system, and marries Bessie soon after, with the narrator kissing the bride.
Archives show early colonial auctions at Jamestown where young women were sold for 120 pounds of tobacco each. The event drew a large crowd, and the widow received the debt precedence. ministers and bridegrooms left without fees as joy marked the day.
A Boston Journal reprint describes Mahratta debt enforcement by dharna, where a creditor seals a debtor’s tent and withholds food until payment, sometimes with followers preventing meals. The piece likens the practice to archaic jury starvation in courts and recounts Brahmin fasting ordeals in Benares to force cash, noting lethal risks and cultural acceptance.
In a Moisy case a bull killed a man and was condemned to hang by Charles Count of Valois. Hospitallers appealed to Parlement, which upheld the verdict but ruled Valois lacked jurisdiction over Moisy. The bull was hanged. In Worms a bee sting death led to burning the hive and contents.
The anecdote recalls Ralph Waldo Emerson recounting a friend who carried a horse chestnut for protection against rheumatism. He claims the man never suffered from rheumatism after starting the practice, suggesting a retrospective cure.
An audience member recalls a terrifying accident the lecturer described and an old lady jokes about where such spectacles are sold. The exchange captures the paper’s light column tone and humorous mischief.
The article notes a beautiful maiden declaring she will give them fits as she begins cutting out red flannel garments for the distant heathen, using scissors to craft aid for distant communities.
A Cleveland Leader poem fragment describes a speaker near a troubled sea seeking a message from a loved one. A fairy boat delivers a wavering note that proclaims the sender as a fool who receives the lines, highlighting irony and romantic longing amid imagery of waves and distance.
A collection of humorous quips and dialogue snippets about women, aging, money, fashion, social scenes, and dating. The bits feature exchanges on beauty, humor, marriage, churchgoing, snow shoveling, and sailing relationships, with puns and social critique.
Captain Brown of the British Windward has spent forty years sailing in Arctic waters. He began on a whaler at age twelve and has visited polar seas more than most men. An Oklahoma lawyer named Crank seeks a court petition to change his name.
Advertisement states free delivery within the borough and weekly routes from New Oxford to Baltimore every Thursday and Hilton Station to Baltimore every Friday at 6 o clock. Orders left with bin receive prompt attention.
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