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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1902
Page
6
Odd spelling and garbled phrasing describe the Santa Fe Trail journey through scarred hills and callous lanes. The passage recalls pioneers, bronze and weary men chasing gold amid a harsh iron day, as modern times loom across a timeless western land.
A March woods tale recalls a boy hunting for a deer near his father’s maple sugar camp in old Allegheny County New York. He treks through snow, shoots a deer, drags it home, and tracks a mysterious man and dog before George Parker shoots a panther, guiding him back safely with the deer.
An advert promises a one hundred dollar reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Ball's Catarrh Cure. The notice lists Toledo Ohio wholesalers and druggists including Warpvixe and Malls Cuturrn Cure makers, and promotes Allen's Feet-Usse powder for foot issues.
A historic dredge named BiG DIPPER DREDGE is described with a 40 foot length 6 foot 6 inch beam and 10 foot 1 inch depth. It features a 6 foot front dipper arm two steel spuds and an 18 inch stroke hoist. Built for government works at Maisonneuve and Sorel it will lift immense loads supervised by consulting engineer I A De Montreal and purchaser Mr Poupore.
The article notes Americans have Pueblo Indians as the cliff dwellers of Arizona and New Mexico. It mentions stone houses high in cliffs, defense builds, and ancient mummy relics. It also references Peru’s ancient mummy making seen at the time of Spanish discovery.
The Society for the Protection of Birds reports ongoing slaughter as plume trading remains active in London with ospreys and second bird of paradise plumes common this season. The revival of guail wings provokes renewed criticism first raised by Professor Newton in 1868. In Mississippi lumber and timber value surged ten years from 5.77 million to 16 million dollars.
Union Pacific Railroad officials alarm Boulder oil field operators by announcing that almost all deeds issued in the last six years reserve mineral rights on the lands sold. The discovery threatens oil production and could complicate leases and operations for local extractors.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Census or medical claims, a city and date, and a death count figure. Names and locations are garbled, yielding limited, uncertain details.
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