Mother Tucked Me In Poem by G A Warburton
A nostalgic verse recalls a mother tucking a child in with nightly prayers and loving presence. It traces a family scene from childhood to adult regrets and guilt, ending with the mother’s enduring care.
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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
5
Philly Appleton and the banked dreams of a hustler
An elder recounts Philly Appleton who trusted a two hundred dollar checkBook to make a fortune. He sank savings into risky ventures, paid bills with IOUs, and kept losing ground as Squire Lazenby’s interest ate his funds. Peter’s poultry venture finally drew him home for work, not wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Bishop
Grandfather Lane
Abner Mitchell
Philly
East End
Peter
Butler
Squire Lazenby
Ardle Bishop
Ammi
Comic papers in early America and the Pictorial Wag tale
La Touche Hancock notes in the New York Evening Sun that the Pictorial Wag published in New York City in 1842 predates John Donkey which appeared in 1848. Elton, proprietor and valentines maker, later founded Morrisania and the village Eltonia. Hancock laments many early comic papers have perished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Ledger
John Donkey
United States
Philadelphia
New York City
R. H. Elton
Earth's Core and Shell Concept by Wiechert
The Seismological Association in The Hague heard Prof Wiechert argue that earthquake tremor velocities reveal a central iron core about 5580 miles across, wrapped by a 930 mile thick rock shell. Between lies a liquid or plastic layer just under twenty miles below the surface.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiechert
Seismological Association
The
Hague
Globe
Advertising as The Best Medium Say Proft Zueblin
A Boston lecture highlights value of newspapers over other advertising forms. Professor Zueblin argues newspapers are superior, while banners and billboards are ugly and harmful to the community. He promotes targeted, credible ads through print media.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Professor Zueblin
Boston
Monkeys Seize Shipboard Mayhem and Escape
The British steamer Braunfels arriving in Philadelphia from Calcutta reports four hundred of six hundred jungle monkeys freed by mascot Lizzie. They climbed rigging, hurled pins at crew for two days until Captain Weitman lured them with molasses brandy, sobering them and recapturing the animals. A tiger and leopard also escaped but were caged. caretaker Henry Emmermann was bitten and clawed by the tiger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braunfels
Philadelphia
Calcutta
Lizzie
Weitman
Henry Emmermann
William Bartlett
New York
Miraculous sea rescue of Captain Hix on Nueces voyage
Captain George B. Hix of the Nueces steamer, Mallory line, escaped a fatal sea during a gale off Cape Hatteras. After being swept from the deck, he clung to a one inch stanchion until a wave drove him back, leaving him bruised but alive, a 30 year veteran of seafaring recalls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Hix
Nueces
Mallory Line
Galveston
New York
Cape Hatteras
Hix
New York World
Soldiers End a French Dynasty in Nantes Fire Scene
In Nantes on November 7 1832 two soldiers guarding Pau line and Marie Louise du Guiny started a fire that marked the end of the Bourbon line and the regent Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise Madame widow of the Comte de Chambord emerged from the blaze as a symbol of a lost cause. A London Globe note also recounts a fox chase through Abbotswood Stow by the Heythorn Hounds ending in a kitchen scene with smashing crockery and a brave fox evading hounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duchesse de Berry
London
Vienna
Moscow
Madrid
Italy
Florence
Naples
Spain
Hocher
Lavallee
Madame
Destiny
Basil King
Harper’s
Nantes
Pauline
Marie-Louise du Guiny
Capet
Valois
Bourbon
France
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Hocier
Europe
Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise
Comte de Chambord
Francis I
Stow
Heythorn
Abbotswood
Park Street
London Globe
Police Hero Creates Living Bridge To Save Five From Fire
A New York tenement rescue saw two policemen risk their lives when they used a narrow masonry ledge as a living bridge to reach a sixth floor flat. A young man, his wife, and two children were saved before engines arrived, the act praised as heroic selflessness. The tale echoes Christian Herald sentiments on universal human courage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Christian Herald
The College and Good Literature
The piece argues American colleges could supply an army of 150 000 graduates every four years filled with idealism. It contrasts American opportunities with the old world where wealth concentrates, urging a literature born from choosing the best minds to seek excellence, not denying opportunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Far East
Boyle of Arrah dies at eighty six mutiny hero
The obituary notes Richard Vicar Boyle known as Boyle of Arrah died aged eighty six. As engineer in charge of East Indian Railway at Arrah he organized the defense during the Arrah siege from July 28 to August 2 under Herwald Wake. He earned the Star of India and a local land grant for his leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyle
Arrah
India
Richard Vicars Boyle
Bengal
Dinapore
Herwald Wake
Vincent Eyre
Order of the Star of India
Argonaut
Georgia's peasant courage fuels equal rights in the Caucasus
In Georgia the gap between educated and uneducated is small though ignorance exists. A Georgian peasant’s defiant reply to noble lineage shows a readiness to break social tradition and seek equality, reflecting a broader revolutionary spirit amid peasants and nobility alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Russia
Georgia
Caucasus
Karl Marx
Nove
H. W. Nevinson
Harper's
Pulse Rates Across Ages And Activities Compared
An 19th century style note records pulse rates by age from birth to 50 years, with figures for males and a small female difference. It notes increases from slow walking to running, meals altering pulse, diurnal variation, barometric impact, and posture related changes in resting to standing measurements.
The Old Subscriber in the Lansing Mirror
The Lansing Iowa Mirror extols the value of the long time reader who pays on time and remains loyal through good and bad. It notes the old subscriber's patience and tolerance for editor slights that other readers would not endure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Iowa
Yellow Fever of Literature Warns Against Shameless Curiosity
Quote from Henry van Dyke condemns a yellow fever of literature spread to all classes, accused of shameless curiosity, incorrect information, and complacent idiocy among the population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry van Dyke
Largest orchards near Berlin yield vast apple harvests
The Werder orchard area near Berlin covers about 13 000 acres and operates continuously to produce roughly 48 000 000 pounds of apples and pears annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Werder
Berlin
Siberian Mammoth Remains Targeted for Exploitation
Uninjured mammoth remains lie in vast Siberian natural resources awaiting use. Experts say skeletons command higher value for commercial purposes than Indian ivory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
Hints for the House A Practical Domestic Guide
A collection of simple home tips including cleaning a copper kettle with bath brick and pasiflin, butter on spouts to prevent tea runoff, separating thin tumblers in warm suds, chilling apples to avoid worms, using a fork instead of a spoon, and methods for icing, drying hands, extinguishing flames with milk, washing dishcloths with soda, wearing cotton mittens, and polishing mirrors with whiting.
Harness horses win blue ribbons in Brooklyn show
Judge William H. Moore’s harness nags take three blue ribbons at the Riding and Driving Club show in Brooklyn. August Belmont’s Norma ITI defeats King Edward’s Perrier in the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket. Yale varsity crews grow, and freshmen show promise as Penn relay chiefs plan a Labor Day Potomac regatta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Moore
Brooklyn
Belmont
Norma Iti
King Edward
Perrier
Newmarket
England
Yale University
Pennsylvania Breeders’ and Racing Association
Melvin W. Sheppard
New York
Battling Nelson
San Francisco
Middle States Regatta Association
Washington
Potomac
W. B. Burroughs
Illinois University
Pennsylvania
Krueger
University of Pennsylvania
Co. F. Conklin
Chicago
Lucien Revolle
Paris
France
Murder Lust and Lunatic Demagogue Violence
The Courier Journal notes the danger of a murderous mind and compares it to silencing a conscienceless demagogue who incites violence. The piece emphasizes how a violent impulse ignores victim status whether crowned or crossed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
Also Mentioned on This Page
G. A .Warburton
Walter Leon Sawyer
Fox
William Seaver Woods
Ede
Literary Digest
Center Square
New Oxford
Charley Hens
Oxford
Pitt St
W. M. Depot
F. L. Flesuman
Propp
WM. McSherry, JR
Gettysburg
Adams County
Mopherson
Attorneys .At-Law
Star and Sentinal
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