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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
16
The New Oxford Item notes it is published every Thursday by H. J. Smith with a term of $1.00 per year in advance. Subscriptions may be continued at the publisher’s option if arrears remain unpaid. Advertisements offered at reasonable rates with yearlong discounts. Job printing available from small labels to large posters.
The notebook records 1908 liquor fees paid to the county treasurer, a railway accident killing Johnson Clark, the death of Arabella Campbell at Wrightsville, and Laurel ice harvest closure. It details harvest shipments to Harrisburg and Cumberland towns, local family milestones, a suicide in Columbia, crop germination doubts, a York county death from neuralgia, college prank discipline, voting district rules, a shooting accident near Jefferson Borough, a lynching in Allegheny, a fire rescue near York, and an advertisement for L and M paint products with pricing.
George Bentz aged 48 shot his wife about 35 then killed himself in a boarding house dining room in York on March 14. Four or five children witnessed the double murder suicide as Bentz had been despondent and jealous before fleeing with Florence Kind from Frederick.
Eight year old Mamie Kunkle was severely burned when coal oil spilled on her clothing while she and siblings were alone at a Dover township home. Fire quickly spread before a neighbor could extinguish the flames. Mamie died after Friday suffering.
Calvin T. Lower declares that if nominated by Republicans and elected in November he will push a local option measure and seek its passage in the Legislature. He vows to bring the measure before the House and support voters’ choice whether by county township or borough. The notice also notes York jail plans a permanent gallows and identifies McWayne as a likely first inmate.
A political solicitations item requests support for Senator M. Good representing Franklin Adams District in Waynesboro Franklin County Pa and for County Treasurer Edw A Trostle of Gettysburg IL Taylor.
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