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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
7
The Geological Survey of British India reports coal output in 1907 reached 9,783,250 tons. The notice also advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain for children at 25 cents per bottle.
At 11 o'clock the Muskogee clearing house counted 40000 in checks for the day and found all banks' settlements balanced exactly. No bank owed any other.
Ladies can wear shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot Base Xu powder. It cures swollen feet, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. Available at druggists and shoe stores 25 cents. Trial package sent by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
In Rand mines South Africa a new concrete rim flywheel for slow speed pumps saves about 10000 dollars due to high freight costs for iron and steel. Each wheel 14 feet diameter weighs 8000 pounds with a 6000 pound concrete rim, driven by electric motors at about twenty revolutions per minute. The design uses sixteen four inch tubes as spokes and four wires interlaced with distance pieces for strength. Also noting Mark Twain earned 700600 dollars in his lifetime.
Two women report relief from female troubles without surgery after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs Williams of Gardiner Maine and Mrs Sperling of Chicago Illinois describe dramatic recoveries and urge others to seek guidance from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
A long reflection contrasts the old fashioned office boy who swept floors, filled ink wells, and learned duty with the modern boy who often lacks hands on training. It praises home training and practical skills, cites a West Side YMCA program teaching neatness, politeness, bookkeeping, and office manners, and notes employers still seek reliable, courteous youths despite changing times.
Senator Proctor's death leaves eight Union veterans in the senate: Bulkely Dupont Burrows Nelson Warner Foraker Scott Warren. Ten Confederate veterans remain: Bacon Bankhead Johnston Daniel McCreary McEnery McLaurin Money Martin. Briggs of New Jersey, a West Point graduate 1872, once an army officer. Dupont a West Pointer. Dick served in the Spanish American War and Ohio National Guard. Civil War veterans are rapidly aging out of both houses. Tennessee has one in Congress Gordon Nashville American.
Quote from Chicago Tribune contrasts phrases like the personal equation with common idioms. It discusses how terms such as in the last analysis and other things being equal are used to dodge concrete thought, framing intellectual questions as abstract or esoteric.
A rough verse portrait of a man defined by his front in hardship. It recalls Grantland Rice lines praising resilience amid poverty and scandal, ending with a vow to rise beyond trials in Nashville Trennes Bevan’s framing.
Grim epitaph from Debrescia Hungary recalls a violent family tragedy. Joseph Moritz senior, age 61, shot by son. Frau Joseph Moritz, 46, killed by daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth Moritz, 16, died by her own hand after shooting her mother. Prison death of Joseph Moritz, 27, followed patricide. Memorial funded by £1500 legacy.
The article notes golf’s enduring pull on Blackheath players after three centuries while lamenting new fashions and morals in sports. It asserts the game remains unchanged and superior, asserting that anyone who harms it deserves defeat.
The Rev. Thomas Dixon contends that Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians have fallen sharply in Manhattan since 1840, dropping from 64, 73 and 71 churches respectively in 1896 to 48, 59 and 57 in 1907, with many so-called churches functioning as soup kitchens or mission halls and overall church presence failing to keep pace with population growth.
Crime reports show more complaints indictments charges and trials in the last six months than any prior six month period in the city’s history. The rise outpaces population growth estimated at 65 000.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. experts say the disease is constitutional and must be treated internally. Hall's Catarrh Cure is promoted as a blood action remedy, prescribed by a top physician and designed to affect the mucous surfaces. Testimonials are available, with the Toledo company selling the cure for 75 cents. Take Hall's Darling Pills for constipation.
G Hartman conducted experiments at Turbine Ontario using electric heating for hotbeds. A 260 foot length of one twelfth inch iron wire wrapped in seven two inch coils on iron pipe is wired in series and mounted under a soil filled frame. The system used a 110 volt circuit delivering about fifteen amperes at eighty volts to provide sufficient heat for rapid plant growth.
In a Bristol to Paddington route, the express train covers 11814 miles in two hours. In Germany, glass telephone poles reinforced by wire are used in some regions to bolster communications infrastructure.
Miss Sophia Kittlesen of Evanston Illinois writes that after twenty five years of catarrh and a long list of cures Peruna cured her throat and cough. She reports general health improvement and recommends Peruna to friends. Peruna tablets offered as an alternative dosage form using the same ingredients.
A Seattle jury convicts a driver of second degree murder for running down and killing a little girl. The driver faces one to 26 years in prison and a $5000 fine. A Boston driver who caused a woman's death awaits court as officials seek a strong lesson for careless chauffeurs. Chicago police and auto dealers unite to curb reckless motorists with prison terms for speech-law infractions.
Laymen from multiple Atlanta denominations pledge to raise $100,000 for foreign mission work in the coming year, outlining a united effort across churches to fund missionary outreach.
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