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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1914
Page
10
John J. McGraw writes in the New York Tribune about Bowerman and teammates seeing white horses as a sign of good luck. He describes how the superstition spread, boosting batting as he hired a driver to pass the Polo Grounds daily to reinforce the belief.
A short excerpt from Youth's Companion recounts English chemist Dalton conducting a crude water experiment to prove water conducts heat. Using a conical ale glass and a red hot poker, Dalton notes water temperature rising from 47 to 52 degrees over an hour, challenging Rumford's stance.
A missionary recounts Wah Noo at a school confessing daily wrongs to become “a whole Christian.” She lists slips such as brushing teeth, bed-making, anger at a classmate, skipping soap, and not doing multiplication, showing a child’s moral reflection.
The Chicago News notes poet laureate Robert Bridges bans the comma in Narcissus allowing adjectives to stand as separate qualities or modify each other. It highlights his fondness for exclamation marks used five times in twenty eight lines and frequent dashes, a colon, an interrogation mark, and ends with a full stop.
Borough of New Oxford grants to Hanover and McSherrystown Street Railway Company and successors rights to construct operate and maintain a line within the borough on designated routes including requirements for alignment poles wires and crossings and conditions for maintenance and indemnity with timelines for commencing and completing construction and penalties for noncompliance. The ordinance notes cross references to route A and Public Service Commission approval and reserves borough rights to cross tracks and remove incomplete works with costs plus 20 percent.
Brora Nkokarda claims Sloan's Liniment relieves neuralgia, sciatica, rheumatism and sprains, penetrating to the pain. A Kentucky testimonial says it cured a severe neuralgic headache after two to three nights use. Bucklen's Arnica Salve mentioned for all sores. Drummere Henry Heidelbach, 70, dies after being gored by a bull in Lancaster County.
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