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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
8
In Savannah, a stranger named Madison was attacked by two men. He surrendered a razor claimed as James Madison’s heirloom. A police officer found the razor in a prisoner's pocket during a search, but the prisoner released with the razor after pleading. Madison retrieved the blade on release.
A Revue Bleue article suggests dividing the day into twenty hores and each hore into fifty chrones, with dhrones as thousandths of a day and centi chrones as seconds. The plan aims to ease marine observation and time calculations, but the French government shows no interest in adopting it.
George Kennan tells National Geographic Society Korea built steel clad battleships 20 years before modern ocean fleets. He notes Koreans used movable type and astronomical instruments centuries ago and produced Satsuma pottery before Japanese refinements. Kennan highlights Korea’s historic pinnacle and subsequent fall.
J Pierpont Morgan described how the Martha Washington will came into his possession after a Union officer rescued it from Fairfax courthouse in 1862. The officer kept it for decades, later passing it to his daughter who sold it to Morgan in 1905. Morgan proposed public exhibition at Mount Vernon or preservation in the congressional diary, alongside George Washington's will.
A Dutch woman Miss Maria Louise Grotendorst and American Johannes Jacobus Kuyk wed after a long distant ceremony. The bride will arrive in June and officials witnessed the nuptials. A variety of details about the ceremony and future plans are noted in the report.
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