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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1925
Page
2
A feature on a Michigan town girl who started a home knitting business, expanding from kitchen operations to a large factory with six hundred machines and eight thousand workers. It discusses starting small with hand knitting or one machine, the rise of knitwear demand, and guidance for aspiring small town knitters on fashion trends and practical production.
A 1924 Western Newspaper Union piece advises the professional summer hostess to please guests with simple, attractively served foods from a garden and on the table. It urges continuous kitchen cultivation, fresh dairy and honey, expanded poultry and rabbit varieties, and modest laundry methods. It also suggests outdoor amenities such as tents, a courtyard, a playground, water activities, and a well kept home interior to appeal to seasonal visitors.
A long list of horizontal and vertical crossword clues appears, featuring odd spellings and mixed garbled words such as Joe Glaringg King of the Kennix 10-Lure and 80-Over. The note promises the solution in the next issue and includes scattered references to positions, measurements, and common terms.
A whimsical tale centers on a beaverboo with blue eyes red ears and a heliotrope hide who labors year round to build a bungalow. His noisy woodworking draws the Sharp-Toothed Kattayae who forces him back inside until the foe tires of the chase.
A LondonCong youth displayed remarkable strength by crushing a rosy apple with fingers, driving a nail through two planks, breaking a chain with teeth, bending a 14 inch iron bar into a horseshoe, and letting a light load pass over his chest. He credits chest development from home exercises after a frail youth and demonstrated ear lifting with a ring on his ear.
Popular Science Monthly discusses a suspected earth satellite observable with a small telescope. A dark speck could cross the solar or lunar disk as the object orbits roughly every three hours at about three and a half miles per second, with an orbit near 2,500 miles from Earth.
An outbreak of foot and mouth disease threatens Brahman cattle in Texas, a breed immune to Texas fever yet highly susceptible to this illness. The piece notes human risk, historical import by cattlemen, and calls for urgent research and prevention despite limited progress.
Record shows the Brownings wrote a vast number of letters totaling about a quarter of a million words, often daily, sharing affectionate exchanges. The sample underscores elaborate phraseology and rhetoric between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning during their marriage in Italy.
The middle ear infection results from germs traveling up the Eustachian tube after throat disease. Dr. David T. Smith found 83 percent of 613 hospitalized children had ear infection, most common after pneumonia dysentery diphtheria and whooping cough. Early care is essential to protect hearing and education.
The article quotes John C. Calhoun writing to Floride Calhoun in passionate terms as he nears reunion, praising her mind and character over mere looks. It notes Floride was ten years younger, and suggests such letters reveal how political figures sought to win hearts beyond statecraft.
Grandpa insists the mantel clock shows half past eight while the right time reads a quarter to eight. The dispute centers on whether the clock should stand or sit on the mantel as both times are derived.
In Western Australia vast pearl fisheries yield mother of pearl used for various goods. Shells are graded and packed for export, yet some larvae and tiny pearls have been found by chance when sacks are opened in factories.
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