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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1922
Page
26
A Boston Transcript note recalls the word luciferous as an unusual adjective linked to Lloyd George. An Englishman explains luciferous as a devilish bad story, amusingly reflecting on the term's usage.
Thousands of women with kidney and bladder trouble are urged to start treatment with Dr Kilmer Swamp Root. The ad promotes the remedy as a physician's prescription sold in drug stores and offers a sample bottle for ten cents by mail to Dr Ulmer Co. Binghamton NY, noting to mention the paper.
A comment notes that Laplanders eat candles and jokes about a big celebration over a birthday cake, presented as a vivid dinner table remark. The line implies cultural stereotypes and playful exaggeration in a context of dining and ceremony.
A brief note attributes numerous saps to the cup, with the small tumbler identified as a primary contributor to the issue. The report emphasizes the tumbler’s role in weakening the vessel’s integrity and complicating usage.
Thirty nine year old Rose Abrahamson told an inquest she shot Louis Abrahamson after his taunts over their stillborn child. A coroner's jury recommended she be held for the grand jury on a murder charge.
Richland New Jersey resident Christian Straube built a wooden coffin with a ten foot air pipe and a bell to call rescuers if he wakes underwater. A fresh sandwich is kept for days until his death, allowing him to survive if buried alive and ring for help from Mary's Landing cemetery.
Sioux City report tells how Scotty the fourteen month old collie helped drive cattle to Yankton then chased a Milwaukee freight for 40 miles. The dog arrived muddy and exhausted at Hik Point where he barked a welcome before being locked in a station and sent back to Yankton.
Two year old Velina Anderson fell into a three foot deep pond near her home in Sacramento. She surfaced and swam halfway across the pond before her mother waded in to rescue her. Velina kicked and moved her arms in natural motion, aiding the escape.
Strother Culley, who fled Mason County jail months ago after a four month sentence for sending a threatening letter, returned to the jail claiming to come back to eat. Sheriff John Ff. Lewis found him at the door, noting Culley had wandered through several states seeking food and shelter. With three months left to serve, Culley chose incarceration over roaming.
Judge J A Hoppmann orders a mixed jury kept in separate rooms at night in Dane County Wisconsin. The sheriff will watch the men while his wife guards the women jurors, solving the at bedtime supervision issue.
The piece recounts a series of anecdotes about ownership and status. Senator Lodge contrasts private property with communism while a southern planter and a slave debate a rain soaked hat. It also notes royal portraits and George V consulting fashion details with a photographer.
Joseph Levenson of New York's motion picture censorship notes films do both good and harm. He cites a luncheon remark about love affairs disrupted by cinema. A joke follows about a couple splitting after a heroine in a serial called The Pact of Death impresses a girl.
A short, dry remark on human nature noting there is always someone ready to second any motion, reflecting on a crowd with ready support or conformity.
An apology marks the end of an incident but fails to heal the hurt it caused. The statement suggests lingering impact on victims and communities while offering no resolution or restorative steps.
Two boys from different towns compare church heights while visiting an aunt in a distant city. The argument centers on whose church steeple pierces higher, culminating in one claim that it punched a hole through heaven.
In a domestic vignette Ethel reacts with indignation to a radiantly spoken proposal from their aunt who offers a new baby sister while Ethel is helping her younger brother after a fall. Ethel resists noting she already has her hands full with her brother.
In a brisk exchange, one partner jokes that marriage will soon stop being about bills while the other quips that the billing part continues. The dialogue captures humorous tensions over finances in domestic life.
A sharp maxim urges decisive action without overcomplication. The saying counsels using a shotgun approach rather than trying to accomplish two tasks with a single, overly cautious plan. The phrasing emphasizes directness over precision.
A famed Bible known as The Devil's Bible, said to be written on 300 asses' skins, was reputedly copied in one night under a pact with the devil. The monk avoided death when the judges spared him, though how he fulfilled the bargain remains unrecorded.
In Washington a hall will honor women of fame from each state with a column bearing names of worthy memory in a new home for the Women’s National Foundation. The Stall of Remembrance, a suggestion by Mrs. George Barnett, excludes living women and leaves name selection to local citizens and boards.
An eminent French doctor labels love a disease of the emotions. The London Opinion and Boston Transcript debate whether marriage is a lengthy, pleasant cen valescence or a cynical affair framed as a mock quarrel among cousins.
A terse exchange frames a personal row as she claims she ended the relationship while he contends he escaped a harsher outcome.双方的陈述构成相互指控的私人纠纷，强调各自立场。
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