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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1908
Page
11
Poem fragment from Leslie's Weekly attributed to Peter Prince. It speaks of joys coming by and by from childhood to manhood with hopeful, poetic imagery. The piece emphasizes time, perseverance, and reward for steady effort.
In old Korea Yi Chin Ho schemes for freedom from death by claiming a magical nose as ransom. He deceives the governor with a drawn image, gains power, travels the land, and uses a nose to barter a pardon, wealth, and influence for his own head. Pak Chung Chang mourns his ancestor’s nose as Yi rises.
The North China Herald notes a shift in kowtow practice from imperial audiences to Western diplomacy. It traces cases from Lord Macartney and Lord Amherst to the French ambassador, showing early refusals and later changes after 1860 when foreign legations were established in Beijing.
Leap Year brings nerve wracking trials for unmarried men as the piece advises quick, decisive refusals and evasive tactics. It prescribes staying away from women, especially widows, avoiding conversation, and even jumping to safety if pressed. The tone mocks proposals and urges men to endure with strict self control during the one extra day.
The passage muses on the power of place names and their sonic identity. It contrasts Mesopotamia’s soft vowels with Saskatchewan’s hard, rugged consonants, evoking northern landscapes, kinship with wildlife, and the evocative imagination stirred by rivers and trails.
Dorothy views a street sprinkler for the first time and exclaims to her mother about the device and its use to keep the boys from riding on the wagon, noting the novelty of the machinery.
An Arapahoe Bee quote relays John H. Seger on rigid etiquette in Indian tepees. Do not take the seat opposite the door without invitation. Do not pass between guests and the fire when leaving. An elder would rather breach a wall than violate that fire-side rule.
A historical note describes the tower of St Botolphs Church in Boston England containing 365 steps matching the year, twelve pillars fifty two windows and seven doors representing months weeks and days. The west porch has twenty four steps to the library symbolizing hours while each side of the choir has sixty steps to the roof denoting minutes and seconds.
A British Medical Journal quip records a trial scene where cross-examination nudges the idea that doctors err and are buried six feet under, while the reply notes that lawyers’ mistakes are hanged six feet above the ground.
An established magazine illustrator recalls starving days in the West when he painted at country fairs. Surrounded by a crowd, he hurried colors from tubes to canvas as a hungry artist. A spectator quips that one of his works, thumb print and all, is better than the other.
A puzzling verse explains a calculation to reveal family counts. It describes steps to derive the number of deaths, living sisters, and living brothers using living and dead siblings as inputs. The poem is titled Dixie Home.
A Philadelphia Press quip contrasts Turkish baths as a scheme to stay dirty with a humorous exchange about ever experiencing one. The exchange ends with a witty line about having merely seen a Turk rather than using a bath.
Cloverport Kentucky police judge J H Wills offers to answer inquiries from backache kidney and bladder sufferers about Deans Kidney Pills. He endorses the remedy as the best he has known and invites questions. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Advice for frost bite victims urges not to approach fires for hours and to rub with cold water or snow. It recommends bathing with witch hazel or applying cloths soaked in it after numbness passes to relieve itching and burning.
The notice promotes Salzer's vegetable seeds with crop yields and prices as proof of value. It claims 600 bushels per acre onions and 960 dollars per acre cucumber and pea yields, then touts a mail order offer for seed catalog and multiple seed packets mailed postpaid for 12 cents or 16 cents with bonus cauliflower. The company is John A. Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin targeting 1908 customers.
A medical note explains that a yellow stain on smokers fingers comes from creasote created by burning rice paper in cigarettes. The creasote is inhaled, gradually poisons the system, and can lead to consumption rather than nicotine.
Advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine as the cure for a cold in one day. Mentions a signature by Bb. W. Grove and a price of 25e. Sold worldwide.
A young priest tests his catechism class with Biddy Maloney answering what is meant by the holy state of matrimony. Her humorous misdefinition prompts the elder priest to caution caution, suggesting even the old beliefs may hold truth despite doubts.
A listener compliments a speech as sounding fine yet forgetting several words. Senator Sorghum replies that the art of rhetoric lies in pleasing the ear without providing data to contradict later, echoing a Washington Star quote.
An eminent German physician argues coffee injures the heart through caffeine. He cites undernourishment and organic disease from regular coffee use and endorses Postum as a healthier beverage, claiming many patients and his own family benefited from switching.
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