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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
12
A stark landscape poem describes a ruined garden clinging to a cliff by the sea. Thorned slopes, withered roses, and wind windborne weeds mark a place where life has faded. Ghosts, lovers, and the sea endure while flowers and memory decay.
A narrator recounts a petty feud over dinner invitations with the Realkate couple. She derides their supposed frugality and pretended virtue while detailing how she shared meals during her husband’s absence and suspects the wife did most of the cooking.
A Pall Mall Magazine sketch details a Tuscan farm run by a British owner and contadino, outlining annual work from sowing after All Saints to olive harvests and wood plows. It covers oxen labor, shared profits, and seasonal rituals including St Anthony’s blessing and Shrove Tuesday corn lights.
A satirical урresponce exposes proposed mining safety rules claiming to protect workers while revealing callous mindsets. The mock document condemns wage cuts and forced inspections, notes injunctions against interfering miners, and ends with a jab at the industry’s dismissive attitude.
Senator Gallinger recalled a young office seeker as a Newport damage suit witness who asked which side he was on. Senator Aldrich compared him to a Providence cross examiner in a perjury case and a stern lawyer who demands precise findings from a witness.
The piece contrasts old and modern dining, noting poorer cattle and scarce vegetables in Charles II era. It mentions rare comforts such as fish knives and recalls Mr. Gladstone's memory of their absence on tables, reflecting on improvements in tableware and provisioning.
The New York Mail states that fees of receivers purses to prize fighters salaries of grand opera singers carriage ride tips at luncheon should fall about two thirds to reach a normal adjustment. The piece argues for sweeping proportional cuts across these expenses.
A claim that Russian women and Japanese men are the world's most expert needle workers is cited, reflecting a comparison of skill in needlework across nations.
An old Glasgow area man eats porridge grown cold and salty. To save fuel he serves himself a week's worth on Saturday. With whisky front and center he vows to eat or miss the drink. He forces the last bite and secretly returns the whisky to the bottle, praising the old rule.
Revenue returns show a realized surplus of 23,627,990 dollars on expenditure totaling 759,060,460 dollars for the financial year.
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