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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1905
Page
8
A blindfolded magician gathers coins of different dates in a hat. After random selection the chosen coin warms from touch, then is identified again when returned to the hat. Spectators believe luck or occult skill explains the result.
The piece presents two St Nicholas excerpts: a light verse about a child pondering a nurse and a girl named May, and a natural history tale of a boy finding a Great Horned Owl nest in a maple grove. It details nest location, egg count, and the hatching of two to three owlets, with food many species provide to the young.
A classroom game appears in the Indianapolis News where children write stories using ten unrelated nouns. Players must weave the nouns into a cohesive tale within a set time, judged for prize routing.
The article quotes Dr. Osler defending a fixed period for service or age in academia. He argues most meaningful work comes from ages twenty five to forty, cites medical pioneers, and proposes retirement at sixty with a double allowance. He references Trollope and raises doubts about implementing chloroform or a college for sixty-year-olds.
In a New York brownstone era scene a polite young boy and his guardian aunt plot a rooster match. The plan ends with the rooster returning battered to the grocer, while the boy insists his aunt will inspect the bird again next Saturday. The Century excerpt recalls gentility and street life.
Knowledge and Scientific News reports a London dock visit where the Queen was informed that ivory stock volumes allegedly reflect Africa's annual elephant slaughter. Letters to the papers dispute this, arguing most supply is dead ivory from hoarded stock and that much ivory may be centuries old from elephant cemeteries.
Two blind men from the Thirty-sixth Street and Lancaster Avenue home met on the corner. One greeted the other by name from five yards away, explaining he could identify the other by the sound of his cane.
An archival line notes that bullying in Scotland is described as ragging, reflecting a cultural term used to label coercive mistreatment in academic settings. The phrase signals a regional variant of the same social problem.
The Berlin bride must not sew a stitch in her wedding gown if happiness in marriage is hoped. Money is often sewn into the train or placed in the shoe to bring wealth and a ruling hand at home. Some regions include bread and salt in the train, echoing ancient customs of presenting bread and salt on entering a new home.
In Atlanta, J Pope Brown proposed cutting Georgia passenger rates from three to two cents per mile. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Order of Railway Conductors, and unions including blacksmiths, machinists, telegraphers, boilermakers, trainmen, carpenters, joiners, clerks, and car men hired an attorney to oppose the measure. They warned it would hurt state prosperity, reduce railroad employment and wages. The Travelers Protective Association also argued fewer trains and poorer service would follow.
Century old oak beams from the Blue Bell Inn Bedlington England were removed last year and crafted into fine local furniture by a regional manufacturer.
A Akron Ohio mother describes her infant's severe skin sores healed after using Cuticura. Despite three doctors, the child's condition worsened until the Cuticura remedy cleared the skin, with the family praising its low 75 cent cost.
Francois Damon, a multilingual French waiter, departs Denver for France after earning about $40,000 in tips over five years and $8,000 in tips last year at St. Louis. He comes from a family of waiters and is described as a young man.
An advertisement claims catarrh is constitutional, not local, and promotes I J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio with Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promises 100 dollar if it fails to cure and notes dosage from 10 drops to a teaspoonful along with Bold by Druggists 75c and Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A bright youngster answered an advertisement for an office boy in a dry goods store and was rejected for having too good a handwriting. The merchant said it was a ledger hand and he would never rise above a bookkeeper. New York Press.
Arthur W. Jaffray, about 6 feet 10 inches tall and 190 pounds, has just joined the army as a recruit ten days ago. He is bound for San Francisco to embark for the Philippines, described as looking younger than his 22 years.
Rev Jacob D Van Doren of Fond Du Lac Wisconsin reports kidney disorder attacks kept him at home for days. He says Dean's Kidney Pills brought general health improvement and relief by reducing pain and stabilizing kidney secretions. Sold by all dealers price 50 cents Toster Musburg Co Buffalo NY.
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