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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
3
A collection of witty notes and brief observations from New Oxford, mocking social trends, odd facts, and human foibles. Items include taxes on eyes in China, fashion pockets, a horse bite, tipping, onions, and light social jests about New York, Paris, and Mexico with light humor and local newspaper voice.
Sergeant Crawford of the North West police trails a killer across the border to a Canadian village. In a tense confrontation at Elsie Pierce’s cabin, he must arrest Tom Pierce to uphold duty, even as Elsie pleads for mercy. A shot kills Pierce, and Crawford declines to join the border pursuit, weighed by personal conflict and honor.
A Rochester Post Press item reflects on age and vitality noting that youth offers unique capacities while forty can match springtime with mature spirit. It praises balanced development of mind body and character and warns against artificial pertness in forty or childish pretensions in fifteen. It also recounts a classroom correction about grammar the toast was drank in silence becoming the toast was eaten in silence.
On the Franconia from Liverpool to New York a steerage passenger Barney Fitzsimmons, a Welshman, caused a two hour delay by bunking in bed and resisting officials. Sixteen crew and quarantine officers strapped him in a blanket straight jacket and carried him to deck, where he was removed and later put ashore for examination. In another note the Characas nearly wrecked by fish clogging intake pipes in Magellan Straits.
In San Jose a 16 year old bride, Alta Benneker, recounts being bound to a chair as her husband Henry Benneker was killed by Thomas Shearin over a 2000 acre estate dispute. Shearin fled but was captured after a posse tracked him down. the murder described as a brutal act in the hills near Pacheco Pass.
Spokane witnesses recount a goat mix up between Mrs. Minnie Ryswyk and Henry McCracken leading to a clash over a hollow horned goat and a pear tree. The judge imposes peace bonds of 500 dollars and warns of harsh consequences if repeated. In Connecticut, John Such nearly hangs himself before another man frees him.
A fox terrier barking led a wealthy Fifth Avenue jeweler to discover the dog had found a purse containing $2,000 in cash and checks, hidden during a wallet search.
William Leslie Taylor recounts an encounter with a band of Indians while Prospecting with Guy Bjorge in Venezuela. They escaped after Taylor used a Colt revolver to fend off attackers at close range, and both men reached El Guyabo alive to send word home.
In Wilmington Delaware four cats hired by the Du Pont hotel project at Eleventh and Market streets hunt rats on site. The first day they caught ten dead rats and work alongside yard staff. A courthouse rat reportedly multiplied amid books and records, while a hired cat failed to locate it during a night search.
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