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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
11
West Philadelphia woman describes years of nervous prostration and backache relieved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She urges other women to seek the remedy and shares her name and address for inquiries.
In a quiet woodland scene Rachel and Randolph confront past harms and pride. He pleads for a second chance, while she weighs sacrifice and patience, hoping to redeem their strained romance and build a shared future.
On Mark Island in Penobscot Bay a woman, formerly a hospital nurse, rigged a lights signal from the Preston Blair summer house to summon aid after her husband Ralph Collamore fractured his leg when his boat crashed. The blaze and rescue followed as navy divers arrived, found the home ablaze and the family in distress.
Fred Krehoff a Chicago teamster chased down red pepper bandit Fred de Sands, rescuing a $4500 payroll. He was fired for leaving his wagon but the next day police promoted him to the force after Ruppert reported the crime. De Sands fled after pepper was thrown in the messenger’s eyes and a gun was drawn.
Bill Brown known as Rip Roaring Bill Brown from Garlic Knob tried to dodge a confrontation with Red Hoy and Tom Boyles. After a fight he fled toward the police station and obtained protection from Chief Harper. He was sentenced to ninety days in the Foledo workhouse.
Steubenville Ohio patrolman Patrick Hilley at a Panhandle crossing fires a revolver into the dark each night claiming ghosts walk the tracks. Police warned him to stop and residents urge disarming him as he is seen as more dangerous than the apparitions.
San Francisco patrolman detains Patrick Murray a mechanic by trade and pickpocket by avocation. Murray is charged with grand larceny after deftly stealing articles from a fellow passenger during transport to the penitentiary following a suspicion arrest.
Ernest Barnes, a farmer near Smith Center Kansas, chased a coyote half a mile in zero weather wielding only a night gown and overshoes. Neighbor Charles Whartsook intervened, knocking the coyote down with a stick. Barnes returned home with two hens and the dead coyote.
Eight hundred teen and young women organize to drill twice weekly in Pueblo. They train to guard steel and smelter plants and to serve as police or fire personnel if local manpower is depleted by enlistments.
Irene Murphy of Mankato Minnesota used a part of her dress as a flag to signal an Omaha train. She halted the locomotive within ten feet of a pile of ties arranged on the track by a man believed to be a black individual. The obstruction could have sent the train into the river.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a simple remedy that drops onto corns and allows them to be lifted away with no pain or irritation. It credits a Cincinnati inventor and notes a small bottle is sold by druggists for a few cents, effective on hard and soft corns and callouses.
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