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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
3
A mid nineteenth century reflection urges young women to guard marriage choices against parental pressure and moneyed suitability. It argues love and character should guide unions, praising self respect and work ethic over wealth. It warns of the danger of marrying for social gain or fortune.
An antiquated meditation on how proposals arise, contrasting instinctive impulse with careful reflection. The speaker notes men often lack a remembered formal moment of deciding to marry while asserting women dream more vividly about committed love.
A nostalgic account idealizes summer flirtation as couples meet in park benches and moonlit strolls. It recalls youths and maidens dreaming of love, older hearts recalling their own courtships, and the timeless wish that every romance end in marriage.
In St Louis Mr and Mrs N H Schimmel of A Washington Avenue had their divorce set aside after less than 24 hours and resumed married life. They had signed a stipulation to annul the decree and reconciliation followed by their shared affection for their child Nathaniel Jr. The case hinged on the husband’s reluctance to speak and a disputed poker game incident referenced in court.
A flirtatious exchange features a coy woman declaring she would not marry the speaker even if he were the last man. The egotistical youth retorts with a sharp joke about leap year competition, turning on romantic bravado.
Mrs. Williams Thlmes, daughter of late William M Iving a NY mayoral candidate, takes the unpaid dog catcher job in Freehold New Jersey to help with homeless dogs. Mrs Yard and Mrs van Dorn from the Woman's Club join the shade tree committee to beautify the town.
Ida, born blind in Lehighton Pennsylvania, now has vision after surgery at Wills Eye Hospital. Mrs Eckley B Coxe funded the procedure with her coal mine wealth. Surgeons say her sight should continue improving and become excellent.
Head operator at a Paterson, New Jersey exchange orders all female operators to wear long skirts after several workers were chastised for fashionable ankle displays observed during arrests.
In Minneapolis, burglars broke into L. G. Graves home on Aldrich Avenue and fled after a confrontation with Graves’s large pet monkey. The animal was found unconscious with a head wound, and blood traces suggested a fight lasting some time.
Walter Withers a United States mail clerk on a Vandalia-Pennsylvania railroad train in Brazil Indiana raised a pink flag for a girl and a white flag for a boy when a nurse on board hung the flags from his home. He telegraphed his wife after noting the white flag signaling a boy.
In a memory from the Atlantic league, Bill McCabe fills in a fan as a substitute with two outs in the ninth. The batter, a local Hick, refuses to run after a three ball count, declaring he will pay for the lost ball, while the crowd roars and the umpire Hill confronts him.
Mortimer G. Gibson a Washington, D C man aboard the American liner Philadelphia two days out from Liverpool went mad wielding a razor for fifteen minutes, backed into a passageway, and fought ship officers before being strapped in a straitjacket. He died the next day and was buried at sea.
A prison visitor asks how the inmate arrived there. The man replies that it is not what he did but what he left undone that led to his capture. The visitor laments, wishing a stronger alibi had been possible to avoid the situation.
Policeman Patrick Cara pion disobeyed orders and was ordered out of the Fillmore street station until further notice. A goat induced a pale cough and ran into a glue factory. Policeman Patrick Compton removed a supposed stink bomb stopper spilling drops on his uniform.
A young doctor and his drug clerk friend sit by the club window as a richly dressed woman passes. The doctor laments losing a great love, and the drug distributor quips that he cannot marry her because she is his best patient.
The text shows Mrs Kaleker declaring a cook can no longer be kept while Mrs Bockar suggests hiring a food dictator, indicating a humorous but tense domestic discussion about managing meals and authority in the household.
Tenants at 10 Prince Street moved a stick of dynamite through hallways in the days before two laborers uncovered the explosive during a building incident in New York.
The article mockingly questions the idea that a furred tongue proves digestive disturbance. It recalls an old timey resident who joked doctors ask for tongue checks and bowels, noting that some clinicians once claimed to diagnose diseases from a distance or by tongue alone.
A Detroit Press item reflects on railroad life with banter about the joy of driving a train and not taking passenger advice, contrasting the imagined power of an engineer with youthful ambitions.
A brief quip captures a traveler asking about a stopping trip and another answering that the tip exhausted them. The exchange echoes a casual frontier mood and comic miscommunication in concise dialogue.
A clipped phrase hints at unease around a infant with odd behavior. The line suggests a chilling or suspicious tone amid a larger tale, leaving readers wary of the child’s nature and the surrounding characters’ reactions.
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