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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1929
Page
2
Oxford item lists JQ Perms annual rate of $1.00 in advance or $1.80 after year end. Subscriptions discontinue only when arrears are paid. New engagement rules apply if not renewed. Advertising rates offered with yearly discounts. printing services from small labels to large handbills.
Community notes report Anthony Russ purchasing a Nash roadster in McSherrystown while Mrs. Eugene Lerew of York Springs suffers ivy poisoning. Randolph Stambaugh becomes a hotel clerk at Silver Bay Lake George, and Samuel Renner of Renner Bros. in Littlestown deals with neck carbuncles.
In a London Sunday Chronicle humor column, Sandy McGrad er laments his wife’s temper and cruelty. A minister counsels patience and cites resisting the devil, to which Sandy replies that his wife is the real devil who attacks him.
A Singlish traveler in Norway lauds Oslo for its beauty and dignity. He notes snow covered winters and midnight sun summers, elegant public buildings, waterways, and wooded islands. Hospitality to foreigners and the city’s balanced blend of culture and industry are highlighted.
An article in Pathfinder Magazine notes that unchanging laws united Medes and Persians under Cyrus after conquest in the sixth century B C The phrase law of the Medes and Persians appears in the Bible Daniel 6 8 and 6 15 as irrevocable and not to be changed.
A book by Wilen ski describes a 1549 Brussels procession under Charles V where a musician used an organ tied to a cat in each pipe. Cats’ tails tied to keys were pinched to make them screech as notes were played, a detail viewed as scarcely credible today.
An anecdote recalls John Ruskin’s sharp wit and savage merriment in critiquing art, including a biting note about Whistler. A friend’s reply warns that a future confrontation might knock Ruskin down, yet friendship would endure.
Study finds 17.34 percent of children of left handed parents are left handed while 2.1 percent from non left handed parents are. If not inherited, no more than 6 percent would be left handed. Notes sex influence with more left handed boys and father left handed affecting girls. Siemens cites 21 twin pairs supporting non inheritance. mirror imaging or prenatal factors suggested.
An excerpt discusses brain evolution from early Java fossil man Pithees ancestor to modern humans. It notes brain weight around thirty ounces marks speech development and argues humans gained survival edge via brain over muscle, contrasting primitive brains with animal responses.
New York World reports that experts identify three life sustaining elements in the body, hemoglobin with iron forming red blood cells, chlorophyll-like substance absorbing carbon dioxide, and a phosphorus compound building the cell nucleus and thought to have sparked early animal life.
A garden shop touts oak trees to a woman who pays for acorns planted by a man. She questions growth and is told they will become tall trees. She then asks for a hammock advertised by the nursery.
The bureau of standards defines three non shatterable glass types. The thick type shows great thickness, laminated glass uses multiple layers bonded with an organic binder, and the heat treated glass reveals irregular figures under polarized light.
Archaeologists in Gotland uncover medieval armor and remains in two pits near Visby after a 1836 siege. Danish king Valdemar led a force that captured the island, leaving many dead and buried with their weapons. A monument is planned by Swedish and Danish authorities to honor the gallant defense.
A portrait of German dining culture notes heavy appetite and constant cafe visits. The author contrasts social scenes, Germany's love of sausage sandwiches, and the image of waiters with coffee to illustrate national habits.
The Columbian Liberty bell was cast by Meneely Bell in Troy New York in 1893 weighing 13000 pounds with a mouth diameter of 88 inches and height of 75 inches. It matches the Independence Hall bell of 1876 and was built from the same molds representing each original state. A committee led by W C McDowell of Newark New Zealand bought it. exact cost is unknown. It was shown at the Chicago World’s Fair then toured U S cities.
A couple ride home by train after seeing a musical comedy. The girl praises the villain as natural and remarks on his hair, while the young man criticizes the chorus noting most performers were young. The exchange reveals flirtation and light humor from London Answers.
The selective service act of World War I provided exemptions for members of recognized religious groups such as the Quakers who opposed participation in war. Despite exemptions, many Quakers did serve in the U S armed forces during the conflict.
A fragment quotes E W Howe's Monthly on the lone henpecked husband and the doomed Russian czar. It contrasts royal pomp with domestic strife and cites public scorn of henpecked men. The speaker notes sympathy for the abused while mocking the czar and laments misapplied blame.
French scientists Hiuguenard Magnan and Suite Linue test aircraft in flight using a new motion picture camera to compare aircraft maneuvering against bird flight. They find a swallow’s finesse to be higher than that of a manned pursuit plane, noting the swallow is three times as swift in its aerial moves.
A passage from Physical Culture Magazine argues that ordinary stunts and weightlifting are impressive but not proper exercise. It warns against record-breaking lifts weighing heavy loads, claiming only highly developed professionals or amateurs with proven achievement should attempt such feats.
The piece argues against crediting only William for Dutch independence, noting Maurice of Orange and Oldenbarnevelt earned posthumous merit after his death. It stresses Spanish inefficiency and poverty as factors, with a sharp quote from a Spanish captain about life from Spain and Philip's repudiation of national debt.
The Engineering Society director warns soldiers marching in step can overload or vibrate a bridge leading to failure. With known bridge type and construction details engineers may predict collapse, and marching can trigger dangerous oscillations. In 1850 a French suspension bridge at Angers collapsed under 487 soldiers marching, 226 died.
In Howe's Monthly a remark from Old Silerius recalls he, widowed and cynical, courted a woman who declined marriage. She said their relationship mattered as is and marriage might spoil it, a view unmatched in history according to the memoir excerpt.
A light moment from Judge Sheldon’s court recalls a two hour argument leading to a foreman’s reply that the jurors were of one mind temporarily insane. The quip highlights the humor found in legal proceedings.
An imprisoned architect oversees construction of a stucco and wood circular birdhouse nearly forty feet across at Sing Sing to house about 1,000 birds including parrots and diverse songbirds. The project aims to provide shelter for many escaped birds and prisoners observe the unusual effort.
A fragmentary notice describes Granada rising on three hills with the Vermillon towers rising from the lowest, and the high hill hosting Alhambra. Historians debate whether Phoenicians built these ruins as a desert roaming past and the Alhambra skyline is said to have housed 40 000 people.
The article explains that air temperature results from sunshine and recent history, noting southerly winds on cloudy days can feel as warm as northerly winds on sunny days. It emphasizes humidity making warm air feel hotter than dry air at the same temperature.
A Detroit woman using a home boiled egg timer timed her three minute telephone call with a device based on the hourglass principle placed near the phone. She aimed to finish her talk exactly in three minutes and believed the contraption helped prevent longer conversations.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes that dust accumulations threaten mills as explosions travel through mines and walls. A protective coating sprayed on dust particles can prevent ignition and is under government study for grain mills. An experiment even shows corn dust powering an automobile engine.
The piece explains the old legal concept mute of malice used when a defendant refuses to plead. It cites a 1740 case where a highwayman feigning dumbness faced pressing to death, with onlookers noting the sheriff could not diverge from the prescribed sentence. The account is drawn from the London Mail.
The weather bureau notes North Dakota and eastern Montana and western Minnesota experience the harshest winter climate. Parts of northern New England and northern New York’s mountains see near comparable conditions. Some mountain districts endure longer severe periods with heavier snows, though temps are less extreme than in the initial states.
A National Geographic writer notes a courteous guest hides coffee berries in a turban to provide his own drink, contrasting with guests who arrive without coffee, cream and sugar, roast chicken, bread, butter, salad, ice cream, or pie yet readily compensate when reminded.
A famous man angrily orders a navvy to move paving stones left outside his front door. The navvy jokes about taking them to hell or heaven, highlighting the speaker's irritation and the navvy's cheeky persistence in a small domestic dispute.
A religious reminder explains the mezuza placed on door posts in Orthodox Jewish homes. The emblem, meaning doorway post, holds parchment with handwritten scripture reminding adherents of duties to their faith as commanded in Moses.
The city of Cleveland Ohio is named for Moses Cleaveland the founder while Pittsburgh honors William Pitt. Duquesne was the original French name at the site where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet and George Washington proposed Pittsburgh after English capture in 1758.
A boy named Joseph spends a day with his indulgent aunt and requests his favorite vegetable for dinner. He humorously insists the dish be his own invention, calling it Pouguts.
Edward McNeilly, 48, of Seward, died from a heart attack Tuesday evening after being overcome by heat while working on the new highway between Glam Rock and Hanover. Fellow employees say he suffered greatly from the heat at work.
Public sale results show the A G Keagy property in Liles Town sold on Saturday to Irvin Bluck for five thousand two hundred nine dollars. The buyer is listed as rear Twy Toy erus.
Ardella Stevens, before marriage Miss Ardella Stevens, is connected to Brooklyn and Gettysburg areas. Charles Becker, son of Mr and Mrs Latimer Becker of Oaklyn New Jersey, will be graduated from Colngswoodugh school. A business position with the Legal Couples merchants of Philadelphia awaits.
A humorous exchange contrasts a lucky parker who always ends up in a vacated spot with a narrator who laments unlucky timing. The dialogue playfully contrasts fortune and misfortune in finding parking spaces downtown.
Movie star Richard Dis has been resting at the Graeffenburg Inn following an operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Ross Back Jr of Hanover is noted as a second graduate of the University of Maryland at the annual commencement exercises last week, among the first eight honor students in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Mrs Averdupois recalls a street car ride when a thin man offered her a seat but the man beside him refused, forcing her to stand as other passengers snickered. The exchange captures social snobbery and urban transport humor.
State game commission paid 1897 in bounty in Adams county over 12 months. It covered payments for gray foxes red foxes and weasels with totals for 152 gray foxes 26 red foxes and 727 weasels. May earnings came from two weasels. Pen Li ar Park announces summer season with opening June 22 and first excursion train June 28.
Jamey Connelly of Pikesville Md paid a $10 fine and costs after a collision between Franklin Swope and John Codors of Gettysburg. Connelly allegedly backed from a curb without watching traffic and was arrested by Trooper John Cavanaugh. Over the weekend four young men, Harvey Dagwall Amos Kump Ellis Collins and Raymond Toomey, faced drunkenness and disorderly conduct charges, paid fines, and were released. The report also mentions a district Sabbath school convention reelecting officers and John Little moving to his father’s home in McSherrystown.
Classified ad offers a six room house with all improvements in exchange for a small acreage. Contact Frank Settels at 10903 86th St., Ozone Park, New York, for details.
For sale two Chevrolet cars a 1927 coach in A1 condition and a 1924 coupe offered cheaply by H Flickinger and Son at Lincolnway West New Oxford.
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