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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1902
Page
6
A fragment from The Rhymes of Tranquill by Eugene F Ware describes a widow with three or four children humming a monotone song about a savior who will keep her to the end. The piece contrasts belief and doubt, noting the woman’s modest life and enduring hope through daily toil.
George Flagg, engineer of the fast freight out of Black River Junction at 4 pm, spots danger as a runaway 5 o'clock Vincent freight threatens to derail. He throttles up toward Harrisville to intercept the oncoming train, risking his job and thinking of officials in the main office while racing to avert disaster.
Engineer Flagg battles a runaway freight with a headlong dash up the grade. He slows and collides the two engines to gain control, stopping the runaway less than a quarter mile from Junction depot. He’s then advanced to northern route duties with full pay and a month off.
The text surveys banana cultivation with spacing and crop rotation, explains plant digestion and carbon dioxide balance, and discusses early Earth life as water appeared. It notes Bovey's extensometer for material testing, gravity measurements over oceans, and methods to compare gravity readings, supporting isostatic crust ideas.
News items report 23750 marriages in Berlin last year and a London mint plan for £2 coins. Hamburg flags a giant sailing ship at the dock while London adopts new oil fire engines. A Shakspere restaurant in Stratford is run by Bacon, and Portland Oregon campaigns against billboards. Evansville plans municipal phone service. Chicago suggests streetcar fire-box keys. The Fresh Air Camp in Cleveland receives a $100,000 anonymous gift. London has unusually dry April, and Kimberley plans a Cecil Rhodes memorial statue. Transylvania faces famine with potato aid. Wireless telegra phy contracts awarded to Fessenden and Marconi in Alaska locations. Marta Abreu praises U.S. aid at Palma's inauguration.
Archival notes from the Seine department reveal items found in Marie Antoinette’s dress pockets at her execution. A green morocco pocketbook held a scissors corkscrew pincers comb and a tiny mirror. another red morocco pocketbook sold for 5.75 cents. A third set of three small portraits in green morocco cases, one framed in metal, sold for 4 pounds 40 cents, proceeds to the executioner Samson.
The Dowager Empress of Russia orders Danish sculptor Stephen Sinding to reproduce Valkyre in ivory and gold bronze. The female figure will be carved in ivory for the face shoulders breast arms and legs while the horse and ornamentation are cast in gold bronze. The project will be costly and may take a year to obtain enough ivory.
The design aims to prevent indiscriminate production. The British Army notes the regulation has been registered at the War Office.
A guide from Our Animal Friends explains humane parrot training. Provide ample food, fruit, clean water, a large cage, soft wood, and grit. The teacher remains unseen yet audible, repeating the target word patiently while female parrots are less vocal.
The article syllabus describes a migration from a high civilization in a subequatorial belt 10,000 years ago during the lastice age. It traces population spread northward as ice receded, with exodus routes shown by ruins and lithic records. Settlements in Arizona, Mexico, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and California mark stages of advance and efforts to sustain ancient civilization against nature’s catastrophes.
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