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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
14
A Columbus Ohio reader credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing her Change of Life symptoms including nervousness and headaches. The letter notes a doctor recommended the remedy and she now feels better and urges others to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Mass.
The United States surpasses Great Britain in coal production after eight years as Britain’s mines fade as competitors. The shift marks a major energy milestone with American output rising while English mines shrink.
Miss Anabel Wilson of North Branch Michigan recalls three months of widespread facial and scalp eczema as a child. After seeing a physician, she used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and was fully cured with no recurrence.
China will open its first forestry school in Mukden soon. The empire is often cited as a prime example of extensive forest destruction among modern nations.
Two stranded Alaska prospectors endure an 1800 mile rescue trek after an accidental leg wound. A steamer helps reach a mission hospital where doctors treat infection and a captain notes the man’s gratitude. A separate Calcutta note recalls teenage telegraph worker Brendish sending a vital message during the 1857 uprising and earning a pension.
A Birmingham music teacher, asleep and moving about the hospital, displays rare somnambulistic skills. She plays piano, tunes violins, crochets, and can read and write in total darkness while unconscious. Doctors study the phenomenon as proof of unknown human powers.
A Paris suffragette who lost her campaign has received numerous marriage proposals, a result she calls a substantial success according to the Philadelphia Ledger.
The article notes banana skins on the West Coast of Africa are burned to ash and used with water and palm oil to make a cleanser in demand by both white and native populations. It highlights waste values, citing discarded shoes transformed into combs buttons and knife handles, and Norway's seaweed ash yielding iodine for chemists.
A collection of aphorisms on love, marriage, knowledge, and society. It contrasts motives for marriage and the limits of belief with wry observations about youth, future plans, and the lingering chill of defeat. Provocative humor attributes folly to habit and expectation.
Col. Brownson, eighty four, rides home when a next township resident claims to have proven up his title. The exchange turns on land ownership since Brownson replies he never owned land, noting he won it in the Mexican War. The tale echoes themes of title disputes and destiny.
T. J. Wyche of the Western Pacific Railway devised a rapid power method for moving rails. Rails are lifted from the yard pile and placed onto a flatcar seven to eight at a time using a locomotive derrick or Big City crane. The same equipment can unload rails from car to pile with equal facility.
In Portland Maine a young man and a strangers woman crossed paths in a bizarre street encounter. They dodged past each other for about half a minute as the man tried to relieve himself, while the woman pressed to pass. The exchange ended with the woman asking whether they should waltz or a two step, in a humorous standoff.
The throne orders a history of Kuang Hsu's reign including major government affairs from 1644 to 1907. The Manchu genealogical history has 221100 pages in 647 volumes, prepared in seven months by 123 literary officials under two imperial commissioners.
A Chicago Tribune reflection argues that widespread spending on imaginary luxuries made the panic of last October inevitable. It notes that prudent savers escape panics while overextended earners and sailors who cut costs poorly suffer most. It recalls a wealthy New Yorker who lånied money to friends during hard times after starting with three partners.
The Munich Jugend outlines five color tests to place painters into schools. Sky gray and grass black indicate classical, sky blue and grass green mark realist, sky green and grass blue imply impressionist, sky yellow and grass purple signal colorist, sky black and grass red reveal strong decorative talent.
M. Tournay, a Belgian engineer, has been commissioned by the international exhibition committee at Brussels 1910 to erect a tower at Ixelles surpassing the Eiffel Tower in height. The project is estimated to cost $240,000.
A poultry farmer from New Market Tennessee touts 20 Mule Team Borax soap for washing white chicks claiming superior cleanliness. He notes favorable comments on his birds and cites dealers offering 1 5 pound cartons and a sample with a 6 cent booklet from Pacific Coast Borax Co.
A mill in Great Barrington Massachusetts was shut down when water bugs gathered around the engine stop push button causing a short circuit and an automatic stoppage.
Ladies can wear shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease powder. It eases tight or new shoes and cures swollen feet, aching feet, corns, bunions, and ingrown nails. Sold at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Free trial package available by mail from Allen S. Olmstead, LeRoy, New York.
The total value of telegraph and telephone line poles used in the country during 1906 was 9 million 471 thousand 171 dollars.
Mrs Franckstroeoe of Appleton Wisconsin writes that after months of fatigue sleeplessness and nervous distress Peruna restored strength and changed her outlook saying it helped her regain vitality and that Peruna has no rival as a tonic and strength builder.
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