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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1902
Page
2
In Madras during a hot season lacking excitement a tiger hunt turns personal when Miss Bradford and Miss Blithedale flee in a jaunting car. A dramatic parasol scene shields Miss Blithedale from the beast, sparking a quip-filled retreat and a later deadly confrontation that leaves the narrator gravely wounded by a tiger.
A surge in Indian basket collecting drives high prices with some pieces selling for over 1600 dollars. Nevada Arizona and New Mexico tribes supply most demand. Speculators hire expert makers for life and one Carson City squaw guarantees maintenance for her family for life. Basket value hinges on texture design exclusiveness and pattern. Materials like maidenhair fern devil's claw willow and squaw root shape the works. Some baskets hold water and are used as non spilling water bottles in desert travels.
In a roadside encounter the major shoots a charging beast between the eyes. A Brahmin is eaten an hour earlier. The parasol becomes a prize, passing through several hands including Miss Blithedale and Belle. Lieutenant Algernon Binks appears in a gray scarlet jacket, and a wedding follows. From the St. Louis Star.
Advice on keeping pocket watches accurate and well maintained. Wind both watches at similar times daily to avoid jerks, keep keyless models clean, use a back support when hung, place soft padding beneath horizontal holders, and protect the watch pocket from dust and lint to prevent pendulous balance motion and time errors.
The expression stems from bowls where only three pins formed a triangle. If in bowling ten pins all fell except the corner pins, the set was said to be knocked into cocked hat. This phrase then came to mean depriving something of its main body or purpose. The note is attributed to Liverpool Pest.
The passage notes that the vine cannot grow above 2000 feet, the oak above 3250 feet, while the plant referred to as 'Their' flourishes up to about 7090 feet. It presents a comparison of altitude tolerances among different species.
The piece contrasts English postal efficiency with American practice, praising London's fast letter transmission within a 12 mile radius and citing 12 daily deliveries, with 10,000 pillar boxes and extensive express services. It critiques the US system for postage costs, weight limits, and emphasizes stamp perforation ideas and a hostile view of the Official Postal Guide.
A fragment describes busy tobacconists with red double cone signs by day and a red lamp by night. Government shops sell tobacco items and postage stamps, while post offices use blue lamps to avoid them. The piece notes the patience required dealing with indifferent clerks and suggests buying stamps at tobacco stores.
An eight year field test near Darlington in Bergen County shows that replacing stump sprout regrowth with seedling regeneration and staged thinning boosts growth, improves health, and preserves value. Prof. F R Meier and the New Jersey Geological Survey report a net revenue of 11 254 66 from 2400 acres plus new seedling groups across the area. Only two paths exist: private wealth funding large tracts or state action to cultivate forests with Meier's system.
A brief note surveys wartime marriages amid the South African conflict. Officers wed hastily, some to opponents, many to military nurses. The piece also recalls Genoa Venice and the Papal states as early national debt issuers in the fifteenth century.
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