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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
1
Dudley Moore Watson writes of loneliness as a longing to reunite with a lost beloved in the mountains. The speaker recalls a world made anew by love, then laments the departure that brought silent skies and enduring ache. The poem frames time as stretching ages while awaiting a return to the mountains.
In Northern Montana the N-Bar Freak joins the Circle Four. He tackles the notorious Kingbolt, a bucking sorrel, and after a furious ride ends with Kingbolt fatally breaking neck and leg. The rider survives and remains famed for conquering the outlaw on the Clearwater Flats.
The text notes electricity as a mysterious force beyond full understanding even by masters. It explains land transmission on telephone wires travels at 16,000 miles per second while undersea cables transmit at 6,020 miles per second.
The banyan tree and its Indian fig roots form a vast aerial support system that take root on the ground and grow new branches. A single banyan is reputed to have sheltered about 7000 men in its shade.
At year end 1906 the administration reported 22,419 miles of system length, 34,4374 miles of wires and 946.11 nautical miles of submarine cables. Offices numbered 379 with 62 open day and night and 317 day only. Instruments in use 768. Shanghai head office staff 67, general staff 3175, inspectors and linesmen 2400.
The French Academy of Sciences received a committee report praising finger prints as the best evidence of identity. It notes finger prints work at all ages from infancy to old age and gradually supersede anthropometric measurements in daily use.
The United States uses about thirty five percent of world graphite and supplies twenty percent. Imports in 1906 from Ceylon valued at 1,554,212 dollars while domestic production totaled 340,239 dollars. Pure graphite has 0.05 to 0.20 percent hydrogen. commercial crystalline grades often carry impurities up to fifteen percent ash. Artificial graphite production is rising steadily.
Charles Spencer Canning Boyle of Cork and Orrery pleaded guilty at Marlborough Street police court to being drunk and disorderly in Piccadilly. A police inspector said Boyle, in a drunken condition, warned of a dangerous structure and complained of insufficient police protection. He was taken into custody. Costs of ten shillings seven and sixpence were ordered.
Employees of the Government Indian school built two ice boats and learned seamanlike handling. While sailing one party chased a wolf. a runner struck the wolf, stunning it, and the sailors killed it. Fort Totten correspondence.
The article surveys recent British rail disasters caused by ignored signals and evaluates proposed cab signalling solutions. It highlights Vincent Raven's electrical cab semaphore system with brushes and wheels, contrasts audible cab signaling on the Great Western, and weighs magnetic induction and fog horn ideas against cost and practicality.
A diary by the Chinese emperor reveals twenty years of escalating nervous debility since age seventeen. It notes intolerable condition with palpitations from noise or exertion, and cold exposure triggers illness. A foreign medical expert warns radical measures are needed to prevent possible insanity.
A critical note on modern villas condemning them as impractical and unsanitary. The design, calls for an ideal mansion on a smaller scale, filled with so called artistic furnishings and lacking comfort.
Arlington reports a vast wild goose crop as geese fill acres ready for harvest. Hunters pour in from all directions as railroads hotels and powder trusts hope the season lasts through winter. Our sportsmen brought in 160 geese in one morning, near average for a good outing.
A Philadelphia Inquirer snippet shows a tense train car moment as a woman urges a boy named Bobby to yield his seat to his father and quips about a strap while Bobby jokes about the idea.
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