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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
15
A Scientific American summary explains the tarantula’s shy, burrow-dwelling habits. It notes nocturnal foraging near the surface, prey capture despite nonaggressive behavior, and a life cycle with annual molts, long maturation, large egg cocoons, and a 25 to 30 year lifespan guarded by maternal care.
Editorial from the Century praises President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University for viewing the era as one of advancing ethical standards. It argues public opinion now demands stricter accountability beyond the law and notes a shift in business ethics as evidence of progress.
A Century quotes President Butler describing a tested doctrine as cheering and encouraging, calling it a working hypothesis. He says the group has advanced and changed their attitude toward life and adopted a more exacting code of public life.
A dog learned to spell names and words by arranging cardboard letters, then to solve arithmetic and language tasks without cues. The trainer notes the dog answered correctly for languages, cards, and math, even translating and naming colors, with performance varying slightly when others led.
A New York wholesale house received a Western customer cancellation threat. A year earlier the same firm sent an order with a demand for immediate shipment. The contrast highlights unchanged selfishness amid boom and panic conditions.
Secretary George B. Cortelyou recalls a tale of a country parson who wrote that his investment in Dash Railways had failed. The banker, moved by the letter, bought back 400 shares at 106 for the parson. The parson then instructed brokers to buy 400 Dash Railways at 55, hoping for 106 from the president.
Thirty years ago many began the year by keeping a diary. The practice has faded as calendars and personal records shift to digital formats and scattered routines.
Major-General Baden-Powell lectured a large Regent Street Polytechnic audience of boy scouts on Britain echoing Rome as a cautionary tale. He warned of municipal squabbles, free food, costly football, and ship reliance as signs of decline, urging Scouts to do their duty.
The New York Sun reports Paris hosts the world’s largest floating population. In January 128,000 visitors arrived and 130,000 departed, with fluctuations through the year. October saw the peak of arrivals and departures, each over 201,000, and the annual total is about 1,750,000. Transients are housed in 11,530 hotels and boarding houses.
A Kansas farmer recalls two months of misfortune after canceling his Farmer newspaper. He pays 1.50 for a year again, blamed on the paper’s absence for animal, crop, and household woes, including dead livestock, pilfered meat, ruined alfalfa, and a choking dog. The tale ends with renewed subscription and relief.
Mike sits copying names of local male residents while his wife notes his activity. Pat O Leary confronts him about the list and declares his name is on it. Mike retorts he will scratch out Pat’s name, continuing the list despite the dispute.
The proposal aims to inject Portland cement grout under pressure with creamlike consistency beneath all piers of the dome and tower to preserve St Pauls Cathedral in London.
The Outing Magazine tale recounts Captain Jonathan Carnes of Salem and merchant Jonathan Peele financing a bold venture to Sumatra for wild pepper. The Rajah returned with a vast cargo, yielding extraordinary profit and triggering rival expeditions, illustrating early American risk and enterprise.
The narrative recounts tarpon fishing with long line in the pass, the fish leaping wildly and a shark encounter, then shifts to a heroic deed. Frank C. McBreen, 64, a wealthy contractor, saved a woman at Jamaica Myrtle Avenue junction but was killed by an oncoming train. Survived by two sons and two daughters, he was a Grand Army veteran. The woman, Mary Sheele, was uninjured.
Frederick Hall a University student and son of a Wheeling postman placed himself between a charging deer and Miss Helen Bloch as the animal struck him with its antlers. Two men beat the deer with clubs, Hall received an operation, and both he and Miss Bloch survived with injuries.
Dr. Andrew Draper, Commissioner of Education in New York, states that illiteracy in the state is much more general than in Germany, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandinavia, or Japan.
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