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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
9
A youth group recounts landing on a small island nicknamed Hungry after a misadventure. Their boat drifts away in a rainstorm leaving four boys and the narrator stranded with minimal provisions and no matches, recounting the scramble to improvise shelter and food.
Stranded on SF Island three miles from shore the six youths craft twenty small wood craft with paper sails. They launch messages. two boats land rescuers and a skiff finally brings aid with crackers cheese and news of two boats reaching shore.
A lyric lament questions the memory of a departed beloved across seasons. The speaker asks how long the beloved will remember, contrasting June joy with December loneliness and urging not to be summoned from youth. The poem pictures ghosts and cold lips in a somber farewell.
A collage of quotes on women from Balzac Thackeray and others. The excerpts reflect social views on gender, wit, influence and virtue, with commentary on perception, marriage, and female tact.
A rich man with a Genie contracts for perpetual contentment. The Genie guides him to Paradise and Hell to prove contentment is illusory. After return, the man complains of home and nostalgia, while the Genie resigns, realizing the futility of the plan.
Forest and Stream reports the recovery and study of two Balaena glacialis remains found ashore near Amagansett and Wainscott, Long Island. Roy C. Andrews details measurements, coloration, eye anatomy, and bone structure, noting the Amagansett specimen exceeds the largest known right whale and shows color variation.
A collection of inspirational lines from Dickens Brooks Johansson McLaren and Keller urging contentment happiness and a buoyant outlook. The lines praise a bright mood and daily gratitude as strength against difficulties.
A Burns quotation notes that women possess a sturdy suffrance enabling them to endure far beyond the ordinary endurance of men. The line reflects a view on female resilience and steadfastness attributed to Burns.
A reflective aphorism urges uprightness and steadfast integrity to guard the soul against sin, asserting that moral steadiness removes danger and harm. The quotation attributes wisdom to J F Ware, emphasizing perseverance in virtue.
The Boston Globe notes San Francisco rebuilt after 28,000 buildings were destroyed in the quake and fire. In twenty two months 10,000 new structures rising or complete with $111,000,000 value, funded largely from local capital. The new space exceeds the old in business floor area as overall conditions face a post disaster panic.
A Manila Times quoted letter from a street car conductor to the superintendent requests six days off due to illness. The writer cites headache and seasickness, asks for medical care, and pleads for permission to recover so he may return healthy.
The Canadian Pacific Railway reports the second track for about 300 miles from Fort William Ontario to Winnipeg Manitoba is finished with full double-tracking expected to run by July 1908. Engineer notes progress on the project and timeline.
A fairy tale narrates a benevolent Prince who distributes daily newspaper supplements to wandering women. He saves a dragon by swallowing the paper’s News Section and writes a Magazine Section story about a dragon rescue. The tale ends with two morals urging buying the Whoop and sharing it.
The piece notes London, once Lyndin or Londinium, as a thriving pre Roman town. It cites Taci tus naming Londinium in the first century and describes Paris as Lutetia in Caesar era mud huts becoming Parisia by the fourth century and Paris later. It asserts London is the older city but cannot date exact age.
John W. Elder of Warsaw has spent 18,993 consecutive nights at home, never sleeping away, and marked his fifty second birthday yesterday. The feat is described as remarkable and likely unmatched in the county.
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