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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
21
Garnet Noel Wiley composes a stark patient poem in The Reader lamenting the suffering of mothers and infants. The verse contrasts holy motherhood with industrial coldness and questions how long the voiceless bleeding will endure as babies face harsh factory walls and a calvary like fate.
A Boston Cooking School Magazine feature describes Number Nine and Number Seven applying a "driblet box" system to save for a desired lounge and other luxuries. The family, including two couples and children Ned and Walter, save routine small sums, turning modest income into large purchases through disciplined, spontaneous contributions.
Duluth asserts it is the greatest shipping port, surpassing London Liverpool and New York. In 1906 the Duluth Superior and Two Harbors district moved 37,376,201 tons of freight, mostly raw materials, valued at over 250 million dollars, boosting regional wealth.
The Chicago News recalls Lunardi's 1784 ascent from Moorfields London in a balloon with Vincent Lunardi at the helm. The event drew over 100000 spectators, halted business, and sparked both fear and wonder as crowds followed the ascent toward Ware Hertfordshire. One death was recorded from fright and Lunardi reportedly saved a life in court by inspiring a swift escape.
In 1880 Argentina held 40 million dollars in railways rising to 645 million by 1906, a 605 million increase in twenty six years. Railway mileage reached about 12 500 miles with freight totaling 26 000 090 tons. This year two concessions were granted to French Belgian capitalists. Argentina operates twenty two railway companies of which eighteen are English with London offices, one French, and three government owned.
Broadway Magazine argues that Japan's rapid naval build up after victories in the Yellow Sea and Korean Straits shows a modern, fully equipped fleet. It notes 12 battleships and armored cruisers captured from Russia, a large officer to crew ratio, and a booming shipbuilding capacity, urging the United States to reassess its own naval staffing and construction.
The Michigan Daily stands out as a seven day newspaper unique among college papers with Sunday issues. It excludes front page telegraph news and keeps a strictly college paper appearance despite broader world coverage inside.
A Burnett man drove with a wagonload of 650 pounds of live frogs to Milwaukee and sold them to local dealers for five cents a pound, netting $32. The frogs were gathered from spring holes and dressed for market by local men, with twelve bush el baskets in the load. Fox Lake correspondence. Milwaukee Sentinel.
A report notes Great Britain hosts rich moss diversity as 200 distinct varieties have been identified across the British Islands. This showcases the region's botanical variety and habitat variety for bryophytes.
A passage from Appleton's Magazine describes the sensation and physical effects of living under forty pounds per square inch of external pressure. It explains how the body remains unaware of the pressure while voice, sound, and breathing are altered and various activities fail due to the intense ambient force.
A collage of aphorisms and quotes on fortune love war duty and happiness from Latin Dryden Juvenal Aesop and modern periodicals urging kindness enthusiasm service and self awareness with at least two named sources and note on social conduct within a compact sketch of thought.
An exchange at the Flood Building features a railroad agent and others prodding Jack to take a drink before noon. He refuses, saying he never drinks before noon, then jokes he will return at 4 o clock for his drink. The scene captures lingering Prohibition era tone in San Francisco Chronicle reportage.
A quotation from the New York Herald cites H. W. Palmer predicting free distribution of newspapers in fifty years. He envisions pocket sized book formats and reduced volume with wireless news, noting agitation over rising white paper prices.
The London churches At All Hallows London Wall and St Katharine Coleman in Fenchurch Street offer morning refuge for workers from 6 30 to 9 am and 7 30 to 8 am respectively. They provide warmth light reading and short services benefiting daily visitors and keeping youth from temptation. The New York Tribune notes similar missions that extend aid at night to those in need.
The item lists striking figures: a 41 million population with only 441 Japanese fortunes over $50,000, New York City budget rising by 34,500 daily for 1908, Britain owning 7900 of 14,000 large steamers, NYC surface cars daily ridership equal to California’s population, London dimensions at twelve by seventeen miles, and about twenty miles of new streets added each year.
Greenland glaciers average around one thousand feet thick move about fifty feet daily and discharge roughly four square miles of ice into the sea, with ice nearly a thousand feet thick entering ocean waters.
The old headgear worn by Geronimo in his final battle with General Miles was bought by Robert W. Wells of Washington and will be donated to the Smithsonian Institution.
New York records the nation's highest total assessed valuation for the 1906 fiscal year at 8 015 090 722 dollars. Pennsylvania follows with 4 405 378 339 dollars and Massachusetts stands close behind at 4 222 281 054 dollars.
A sycamore statue in the museum of Gizeh, Cairo, is nearly six thousand years old yet the wood is said to be entirely sound and natural in appearance.
Traveling public puzzled by four sleeping cars at Grand Central Station with names Aurelian Eglantine Mo elweiss and Annarello.
Dutch navigator Adrian Block named the Connecticut River exploration up to sixty miles inland in 1614. Block Island preserves his name as a lasting legacy and the river’s Indian origin meaning the Long Tidal River is noted.
The winter surge of colds is not merely from cold. It stems chiefly from staying indoors as people fear chilly air, reducing health and increasing susceptibility to colds.
A brief collection of aphorisms reflecting on advice, ambition, marriage, dignity, truth, heaven, widowers, aging, effort, and honesty. The musings critique human foibles with a wry, observational voice attributed to the Greenwood Lake philosopher.
Federal report notes 52 Alaska native public schools under the Education Bureau with 2,483 pupils and 1,076 average daily attendance. Over 15,000 domesticated reindeer support natives, with plans to expand industrial training and self sufficiency including fishing, walrus and whale utilization, boat handling, tanning, coal mining, and agriculture.
A political candidate wins Patrick Halloran's support after a lengthy debate near his pig pen. Halloran recalls that while he disagreed with the arguments, the candidate’s act of scratching the pig behind the ear softened his view, leading to Halloran and neighbors voting for him.
A blue crane was found dead along the White Water Canal between this city and Milton by Motorman Bottsfield of the T H I E branch to Milton. A sixteen inch white sucker was wedged in the bird’s bill and throat, causing strangulation and neck fracture as it struggled to free itself. The specimen stood five feet one inch tall with wings six feet two inches across.
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