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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
2
A reflective verse piece praising sustaining boyhood through adulthood. It contrasts youthful joy with aging, urging readers to keep a boyish spirit alive. The poem emphasizes gentleness, honesty, and the desire to let boys remain part of the heart.
California cattleman Clover Leaf Johnson recalls forging his clover leaf branding iron and branding a grizzly bear amid mountain ranges. He recounts escaping the bear, climbing a tree, and later discovering the bear’s pelt bore his signature mark, traded in a humorous settlement with a settler who claimed losses from other animals.
Boston correspondent reports Dr Edward T Williams Harvard Medical School 1865 graduate has announced that spleens contain iron and phosphorus and can be eaten after coagulating albumen. he claims this could add 50 million pounds to annual meat output and cut costs for the poor to about ten cents a pound, with negotiations underway to market spleen sausage.
A young Southern lawyer mentored by James C Carter learns to temper certainty. Carter warns against overstating confidence in legal opinions, advising that one should seek the preponderance of doubt rather than absolute certainty.
In the Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt Miss Greenley confesses she has never played bridge while a hostess urges a game. The exchange captures a social moment inviting participation and instruction.
A Shanghai based correspondent reports the Beggars' Guild as a pervasive, officially tolerated monopoly. Beggars recruit and employ cripples and deformities to solicit alms, with guild heads in every province and Manila style wealth among leaders. The piece cites immense annual takings and describes a Newchwang wartime encounter with a beggar chief.
A historical overview notes magazines holding multiple cartridges on modern military rifles. It references the Lee straight pull used by Marines, Mauser designs, and a German inventor's automatic reloading concept. Mentions Cuban War Spanish troops, US cavalry repeating rifles, and the Lee rifle’s five-cartridge box.
A brief cartoon line shows a tramp asking a madam for immediate relief from indigestion. He quips that she can cure him instantly by giving him something to digest, highlighting a humorous misunderstanding.
A London writer mocks the ambidexterity craze as common among fools and notes balanced people favor one hand. Reports describe fruit trials in German China and a Utah smelting plant generator running four years straight.
A London Times Engineering Supplement study argues motors surpass horses for army transport and heavy baggage wagons, noting needed light off road gear and strong frames. It cites Sir J H A Macdonald’s comparisons, showing motor omnibuses could move vast troop loads London to Dorking faster than trains, freeing rail for cavalry and artillery.
A vendor offered a pictorial “Birds Eye View of Cambridge” to Prof. Agassiz. He examined it briefly, then, with his characteristic accent, remarked that he is grateful he is not a bird. The anecdote appears in the Bos Evening Transcript.
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