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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
19
Cy Warman laments leaving Scotland and Burns country for America. The verse contrasts misty London and Scottish heather with the distant mainland and a tired spirit turning toward the Occident.
Dr Philip Hammond rescues Lalla Harding after a sprained ankle in the woods. A romance blooms as he confesses love amid nursing and shared longing. Lalla schemes marriage for wealth, spurring a city visit where social worlds collide and vows are sealed in a passionate reunion.
In the southern Atlantic St Helena serves as a key meteorological site where anemographs and a routine wind-recording station have gathered data for fifteen years. W N Shaw notes possible links between southeast trades wind pulsations and rainfall in northern Europe, with solar energy distribution influencing weather patterns and potential economic impacts.
Philip endures a winter of cold and longing after a passionate love for Alla vanishes. He recalls their first meeting in Halford Woods as he walks through the scene while an east wind blows today.
Summary notes a series of grim events involving John I of Bohemia and several popes named John, including imprisonments, exiles, poisonings, and executions. Also mentions a later line about John XVI as anti pope and torture. Ends with a verse and a plan to equip British and native cavalry regiments in India with magnetic compasses for a squadron.
A mixed European news digest notes Tord Nelson as a sparing eater, Antonia Dubost elected president of the French Senate, and J Pierrepont Morgan sailing to Europe. It cites Lord Gurzon as an unpopular viceroy, the German Emperor in Copenhagen discussing a French caricature collection, and Kaiser showing interest in automobiling and the Berlin Automobile Club. It also mentions Olmstead on term lengths, J E Hodder Williams to write Williams biog, J M Barrie’s laborious craft, Rev Joseph A Elliott’s death, and a Belgian king’s rare church attendance.
A Japanese critic in the Springfield Republican claims England is in decadence and being Americanized, a view seen as a poke at the British aristocracy which benefits from America’s influence. The piece argues the old English ideal also rested on wealth, undermining the critique.
The Boston Transcript notes that baseball players wondering about life after the diamond age should be encouraged by Mr Sunday, billed as a baseball evangelist, who cleared 3667 dollars in a six weeks revival at Alwood Illinois.
Two captains in the Commissary Department have been ordered to Fort Riley Kansas for a cooking course. The aim is to train them to teach troops to bake bread presumably as captains used to make.
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