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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
16
Advertising rates and subscription terms outline the New Oxford ter issued by H J Smith. It notes annual price 1.00 in advance, continuation unless publisher discontinues, arrearages owed, and painting services offered for labels and posters.
Reports that an Astor farm in New York City, split among heirs, valued at 8.25 million dollars after an 1838 purchase for 23 thousand. Other notices include a man’s disappearance, a suicide in Chambersburg, a large local coal find, and a bank embezzlement arrest in Pittsburgh.
A farmer named Williams near Graybill station in York county dashed into the rain with a red handkerchief and halted a fast moving northbound passenger train. Heavy rains damaged the embankment, tearing up track, prompting Williams to signal and prevent a wreck, saving many lives.
After 83 years the paint brand boasts wear of 10 to 15 years and low cost at $1.20 a gallon. The claim emphasizes its status as the best used and notes sixteen thousand agents certify the facts.
Alexander Smith 67, a well known farmer of York New Salem, York County, died after a fall from the barn forebay while helping his granddaughter fetch straw. A board broke, he fell head first, suffered a base and vault skull fracture, and died about three hours later despite medical aid. He leaves a wife and three children.
Yorks Gazette reports the P R R and Power Co plans a Maryland charter to build a line from Hanover to Glyndon, linking with Baltimore via the Balton & Emory Grove electric road and running over the Baltimore and Hanover turnpike. Also notes on local deaths, disappearances, and a medical graduate.
Private sale offered for the property formerly home of Mrs. Tena Diehl at 2nd door below Catholic Church Carlisle Street New Oxford. Desirable investment should attract buyers. For details contact H S Sheets New Oxford.
Mrs Harry Little of York wrapped her sleeping infant in heavy bed covers, smothering it to death. In a separate incident Dorothy Morganthaler, two, drank about an ounce of strychnine and lies in critical condition after swallowing half the bottle. the poison was left on a table.
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