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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1905
Page
9
A speaker recalls envying the lively boy next door whose messiness and toys once filled the home with sound. Now quiet and spotless, the speaker longs for a glimpse of a shoe or broken toy, hearing only the neighbor's laughter as Harper's Bazar notes.
In a French village, Maxime Richard brings Pierre Deslandes to lunch to fill a thirteenth seat after the Cortots cancel. A mistaken invitation creates a chain of memory loss, duels, and a hidden engagement that unfolds through letters and a whirlwind wedding.
Ainslee's Magazine explores the lavish running of top New York and Newport town houses. It details salaries for cooks, butlers, chauffeurs, and housekeepers, the hierarchy under the head cook, and monthly cost ranges reaching six figures.
A World’s Work piece argues that hypodermic drug use has risen while scientific medicine refines drug use to specific actions. It states most drugs are auxiliaries and stresses that disease causes require factors like poor air and darkness. fresh air is highlighted as more powerful than drugs, with quinine in malaria as a rare exception.
A Baltimore man shares a humorous tale about his friend who became engaged to a pretty young woman in a fashionable shop. He asks for belts for the bride, but does not know her belt size. He borrows a yard-stick to measure his arm and proclaims, Twenty inches, as the belt size.
A guest from the far west claims overcharging at the Coates House after three weeks stay with a private bathroom. He says the clerk billed for daily bathroom use though he only used the tub once, prompting a dispute with John M. Egan.
The chair lady sharply rebukes club members for multiple silences at once under rules of order and common courtesy. Ladies cringe, some redden, and several cry as the rebuke lands during the meeting.
Russian papers report a Chinese court astronomer forecasts the present war lasting 33 years with Britain drawn in four years hence.
Alice Brown a 37 year old seamstress blocked the Crosstown line at Bedford Avenue near South Fourth Street just after 1am. Police officer Smith and four volunteers freed the tracks after a trolley approached. Magistrate Higginbotham suspended sentence pending her betterment. Today Japan has 1500 daily newspapers and periodicals.
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