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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
5
A nostalgic verse recalls a young woman boasting of her looks and suitors, especially Jim. Despite defiance, she accepts a marriage to Jim on a crowded Sunday in church, hoping to end the attention of many followers. The piece frames courtship as comic necessity and notes the wedding as the sole cure for the crowd.
In The Outing Magazine piece, Jones the traveler recounts a perilous journey across Europe. He swims through dangers from a broken hub brake to a glacier flood and a fall into a Meiringen tree while biking.
Capt Percy Pells Hartman and Geeks fished near Pelham Bay when a huge turtle hooked the blackfish line and towed their boat a mile. They freed the creature after a three hour struggle, the turtle weighed 267 pounds and capsized the boat before being towed ashore.
A study of authors handwriting shows temperaments in style. Longfellow bold and open, Byron a scrawl, Dickens neat but minute with blue ink on blue paper and frequent erasures burdening publishers. Other writers like Charlotte Bronte Carlyle Bryant Scott Hunt Moore and Gray show varied legibility and individuality.
A Munich medical weekly describes several silk processing methods for surgical sutures. Investigator Wederlake recommends ether washing to remove oils, sterilization by bichloride or mercury boil, silver impregnation, and india rubber coating to resist fluid absorption. Other methods use sulfuric acid immersion, alcohol drying, tannin hardening, and glycerine to retain strength and flexibility.
An official of the War Department recalls a watch that stopped overnight but began running again after a walk to the jeweller. He notes the timing change and compares it to a dentist visit curing tooth pain, sharing his first experience with an inanimate object behaving oddly.
The London Chronicle recounts how Nelsons signalman John Roome, once a navy deserter selling watercress and red herrings in Blackfriars, was helped by Capt. Pasco to gain a Greenwich Hospital pension. He joined Greenwich after officials admitted there were more deserving candidates.
A Spring field Republican note claims Icelanders possess exceptional eyesight in barren lands detecting distant foxes on snow, with Arabs able to spot desert objects invisible to others.
The piece explains that every time a merchant sells on credit a hidden loan is made to the buyer for the period until payment. It argues buyers should recognize credit as a cash loan and salespeople should understand this to reduce losses and foster mutual respect. The article cites Credit Men's Bulletin.
A Los Angeles woman real estate agent, active about two years, completed the largest land sale by a woman in the region at nearly a quarter of a million dollars. She notes many women clients and cites efficiency in business but warns women often lack practical knowledge to execute contracts and risk delaying deals.
A New Orleans Times correspondent observes Normandy peasants as frugal eaters who favor bean soup bread and pancakes for meals. They drink cider and snuff is common among peasants and priests. Wedding feasts show they can feast when occasions demand.
A farmer north of Carrollton recounts a dramatic encounter where a red squirrel seized a six foot black snake by the head in a nest and fought it on the ground before the snake was dispatched. The scene ended with the squirrel retreating up the tree as the snake died.
A new vocation appears as itinerant auto repairers tour large country roads. The first example was seen on the Old York road near Jenkintown with a bag of tools and a sign Autos Repaired. The clever machinist offers mobile services, traveling in a striped runabout, likened to a repair ship to navy ships, ready for breakdowns.
Paris authorities establish seven free eating houses to aid poor mothers with meals. The facilities offer subsidized nourishment and aim to relieve hunger among families while promoting welfare support in the city.
A National Magazine writer notes a hardy Cuban rubber tree planted six metres apart can reach thirty feet in 15 to 20 years. It tolerates intercropping with beans cassava and corn while maturing. Tapping may begin at five but is better at six years, yielding one to one and a half pounds, with annual output of about six pounds from eighth to tenth year and long-term viability.
A visitor remarks that Meredith describes grand castles in his books but builds a modest home. He replies that words are cheaper than stones, a twinkle in his eye signaling a lesson about writing and materials.
Controversy over fish hearing continues with M Marage reporting in Paris Comtes Rendus that carp tench pike and eel showed no response to underwater sounds. Despite waterborne sounds strong enough to affect deaf mutes no effect was observed on the fish.
A Bermuda machinist on Russell Street laughed at a joke played on a comrade with a garden hose. While watching from a window he laughed loudly, suffered pains, and was aided to a seat. A doctor found one rib fractured and another rib lining torn.
District Attorney Jerome announces weariness of public ire while Admiral Dewey marks his seventieth birthday. Andrew Carnegie donates 2 million dollars to the Carnegie Institution endowment, and Alfred G Vanderbilt gives 100000 to Newport Y M C A for a memorial building. Several others are named for donations, appointments, or legal actions.
A roundup of 1908 politics notes with Taft touring the world and efforts to stage his rise. McCarren predicts Hughes unnominate, Fairbanks urged for president, and McEwen pursuing a gubernatorial bid in Chicago. Iowa may back Renee. Tillman criticizes Panama bonds. Missouri GOP backs Taft, Roosevelt signals Taft assured amid Hughes doubt.
The New York Evening Post notes that talking machines and automatic pianos extend their influence beyond popular compositions. It argues the shift from sheet music purchases to rolls disks and cylinders should still fairly compensate authors and composers.
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