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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
18
A family narrowly escaped loss when a kitchen fire started by an overheated stove and a dog sleeping by the porch altered its routine near Dover. Other items note barn fires near Wellsville, an attempted arson in York County, medical remedies, weather folklore, and local notices.
Detroit resident Frank Winters addicted to a hundred cigarettes daily was declared mentally unfit by Judge Walbert in probate court. Doctor S L Layton testified nicotine abuse impaired his mind after years of saloon begging and job neglect.
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Abilene Kansas report by J Mohler secretary of the state board of agriculture notes a drop from 55 percent engaged in agriculture in 1895 to 46 percent in 1915 among all occupations. He cites home seeker lands capital, farming improvements and rural life as key issues for Kansas.
H W Parr of Hanover Pennsylvania advertises a carload of Ohio and Kentucky horses and drivers for sale or exchange on Friday May 29 1916. Also offers a carload of mules and buys all kinds of fat horses and mules suitable for Southern markets.
In Montclair New Jersey Mrs. Nettie Sb Patterson reports the Altruist society faces a case of a man with fine piano fingers offered a coal wagon job to support six children and a wife yet he refused to spoil them. He preferred not to ruin his refined digits.
Joseph Cronan of Derby, Connecticut, declares he has scoured forty two states and two European countries for a suitable wife. He says he is temperate, healthy, and a strong farmer, and has spent sixteen years seeking the right partner, asking newspapers to aid his search.
Ambrose McGraw 36, a Wilkes Barre and Eastern railway conductor, was found dead beneath a tree on the Lehigh Valley farm near Moosic Thursday morning. Evidence shows a bull in the field gored him to death, tearing his body with its horns and shattering the tree he stood by.
Mrs. Emsma Singer flashed a $1,500 roll to pay for the medical document and took out her fourth license to marry Henry W. Ehling, who is also on his fourth marriage after three wives died. Each is 54 and both had prior marriages by death or divorce.
State Department of Agriculture agents collected milk cream and ice cream samples last week leading to 42 prosecutions for samples below state standards for solids and butterfat. More prosecutions are expected as tests continue. A post office in Wyomissing was robbed with nitroglycerine exploding the safe. about 200 in stamps and 100 in cash stolen. The blast damaged the building but did not wake upstairs occupants. Joseph Fahrier of McAdoo reports three brothers killed and two crippled in fighting with Austrians against Italians.
A York Chamber of Commerce petition asks court to release five turnpikes radiating from York. The report notes local road access issues and possible impacts on commerce and travel in the region.
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