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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1908
Page
6
A Kansas Farmer recounts Trilby, a talented Morgan colt trained by Bert Daniels. The horse thrives with Dan’s team until technology replaces the powered plow and threshing gear. Trilby’s memory lingers, then she dies near the pasture after an engine replaces manual power.
A Fort Leavenworth inmate allegedly cut a Bessemer steel bar with yarn and water in eighteen hours using limestone dust and silica from a stone pile. With emery and a chalk line, he then cut another bar in five hours, while a guard observed to verify the feat.
The Springfield Republican reports that many English fishing boats are lost because helmsmen carry forged magnetized knives that deflect a compass by two or three points. Boats appear on course but drift off target due to magnetic interference.
A report notes the fastest elevators operate at about 17 miles per hour. The item highlights rapid vertical transit capabilities and implies growing building efficiency.
Dr Bernard Hollander addressed the British Phrenological Society on whether insanity can be cured by surgical operation. He cited a sixteen year old thief and liar improved after skull surgery, arguing localized brain injury causes mental derangement and that removing curable cases from asylums could aid reform.
A physician cites twenty eight cases of traumatic brain injuries where mental function recovery occurred without surgery. He describes a man hit over the left eye who suffered pain and melancholia but recovered after targeted treatment, arguing many injuries can be cured without trephining and that early operations may be justified with precise localization.
A Honolulu Advertiser note describes a newly formed crater lake in Diamond Head with a three quarters mile circumference and two and a half foot depth near the edge. Wild ducks and coots frequent the water while a lone settler’s hut decays amid encroaching weeds.
A New York illustrator praises Elihu Vedder as perpetually bohemian in Rome and Capri, recounting a London visit to Alma Tadema. Vedder awoke Tadema with a thunderous floor knock seeking the location of Tadema’s cuff trimming scissors in the guttering house.
A fruit expert states picking a barrel of apples costs 20 cents on very tall trees, but only seven cents per barrel on low-headed trees, showing a large efficiency advantage for the latter.
A humorous note from Puck describes a dramatic encounter with a huge fish, boasting a length near ten feet and weight around five hundred pounds. The account emphasizes the speaker’s escape after the fish broke the line, capturing a tall tale tone.
A sign reading Duirg Hegs Knowly Lade graces the window of a dairy shop in South London, adding a curious visual element to the storefront.
Household tips from the Washington Star describe making nut cookies with optional nuts, highlighting hickory nuts as especially good. The method calls for lard or butter, light brown sugar, two eggs, sour milk, soda in a splash of milk, chopped nuts, flour, rolling thin, cutting shapes, buttered pans, and a quick bake of five to six minutes.
A brief old recipe lists ingredients for Fairy Gingerbread: butter, sugar, milk, flour, ginger, and dissolved soda. Instructions say cream butter, beat in sugar, add ginger and milk, fold in flour, bake thinly in pans, then cut into squares while hot.
A detailed medium cake recipe with ingredients for the cake and three icing variations. Ingredients include flour sugar almonds cherries sultanas currants citron orange lemon peel eggs milk and baking powder. Directions cover cream butter and sugar beat eggs fold in dry and fruit mixtures bake slowly and store well in an airtight tin. Icing describes almond and white icing with orange blossom water lemon juice and fondant decorations.
Practical guidance on cleaning silver with kerosene, boiling clothing lines, lamp maintenance with salt in coal oil, vinegar cloth treatments, labeling containers, reducing onion breath, protecting tabletops with asbestos, preventing color fading in fabrics with turpentine, cookie and bread alternatives, and salvaging candle ends into polishing paste.
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Rudyard Kipling. Benjamin Champney, landscape artist, dies in Boston at ninety one. Carnegie and Rockefeller holdings total 136000000 and 106000000. Beveridge of Indiana allegedly blushes. Archibald Willard, Cleveland artist, painter of The Spirit of 76, was a carriage painter. Alexander Hamilton dies at ninety two in Tarrytown. Bishop Coleman found dead in Wilmington. Melville Fuller reelected Peabody Fund chairman. Charles Fleischer of Boston discusses the Sabbath as dead. Alfred Stead dies in London, born 1877, connected to W T Stead. Captain Cody aids British aeronautics and advises War Office.
The house presents a newly refitted and furnished interior in first class order with tables supplied by the market and a bar stocked with wines liquors and cigars. Extensive stabling and attentive hosts. Charges moderate. Steam heated throughout.
Labor World surveys wage rates and union actions across cities and countries. It notes San Francisco bridge builders at five dollars daily, Lynn Mass roofers unionized, New South Wales brickmakers earning ten dollars a week, Canadian furniture workers over eight thousand, and fourteen thousand nine hundred seventy two German women in metal trades. It reports Canada printing employing nearly ten thousand with annual wages totaling five million five hundred forty thousand eight hundred eighty five dollars, Vallejo hosts California State Federation of Labor convention, Louisville to hold Retail Clerks Protective Association biennial, Calgary Tinsmiths wage rises from forty to forty two and a half cents hourly, Vienna omnibus strike ending after concessions, Fall River Textile Council extends wage-setup six months, hats to bear union made label, and Boston iron furring lathes wages up to forty seven and three quarter cents per hour.
The Watertown Times notes that many well equipped, clear brained, ambitious young men are entering business from college graduations. It suggests this signals progress with commercial life being shaped by higher ideals rather than pure profit.
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