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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1917
Page
13
An inmate at the Masonic home near Franklin, aged past ninety, recently heard a phonograph for the first time. Visitors noted his reaction and he described a strange device: a pie pan with a hole, placed in the machine and grinded to produce music, which he called dang good music.
Mrs Scatterbrain laments her forgetful husband who could not recall her instructions. A friend teases that a note dated a week ahead arrived, prompting Mrs Scatterbrain to realize her husband may have posted it the day she handed it to him.
An affectionate guide to pan fish like crappie rock bass bluegill sunfish and yellow perch. It highlights light fly rod tackle still fishing with small hooks and fine lines, feeding habits preferred baits, and the pan fish role as a reliable, enjoyable quarry for leisurely days on ponds lakes and streams.
A humorous column plays on balance as it urges readers to use both feet in progress. It promotes practical effort and steady work, using light wit to urge consistent action in daily tasks.
A vintage recipe note presents a doughnut method with sour cream sour milk soda salt eggs sugar ginger and flour for moist results. It also shares Swiss Dressing with honey yolks olive oil and whipped cream and two main dishes Halibut casserole and Chicken a la King Waldorf style with butter peppers mushrooms cream and minced chicken.
A reflective line asserts that a person’s true value is reflected in his face body and fortunes, engraved as light across life.
A recipe ensemble offers sirloin or round steak with butter onion pepper tomatoes and a brief oven finish. Ham with onions simmers in stock to a tender gravy. Scalloped mushrooms and whole-wheat bread detail prep and bake times. A barnyard tale and an optimistic Western Canada farming note follow, highlighting crops, land prices, and appealing settlement opportunities.
Wartime-era ads tout Allen's Foot Ease as antiseptic powder for shoes and baths to relieve swollen painful feet and ease bunions. Mentions use by British and French troops, with other product mentions and stray dialogue about eggs and kitchen staff in a crowded, fragmentary page.
Citizens urged to do their part for price stability by supporting grain production on United States and Canadian lands. Advertisement notes grain lands in both countries are strong and destined to bound prices for some time.
Local readers report a rural exchange about employing city high-school boys on farms. One speaker jokes about using them for labor and plans to dismiss them before the apple harvest begins.
An old advertisement promotes GROVES Tasteless Chill Tonic with Quinine and Iron. It claims Quinine drives out malaria while Iron builds up the system. The label lists the formula and price at 50 cents.
Fred Creators, chief deputy United States marshal, answered the phone as a woman complained of a barber wearing red, white and black polo. She said it was German colors, prompting the terse exchange in Indianapolis News style.
Grace asks her mother if a new baby is coming while another child, Huth, claims next week is Baby week and that her mother will ensure everyone gets a new baby. The exchange reveals a child's belief in imminent additions to families.
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