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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1925
Page
1
A University of Illinois dean argues women may smoke if it does not affect efficiency or temper, insisting true enjoyment comes from pipes. He contrasts female smoking with men's slower, deliberate use of pipes and cites old habits and images of Mrs. Simpson and Mrs. Wright to claim pipes offer real satisfaction.
A fragment lists crossword style clues and theme notes from a 1925 page. It mentions a devoted lady, biblical character, instruments, places, and odd terms, ending with a promise that the solution appears next issue. It hints at a prior puzzle solution and embedded hints like debt and landford’s delight.
The narrator recalls a rural church graveyard where death and memory linger. Fifty years later the site is razed, markers broken, fences gone, cattle roaming the lot, and only a nearby house and trees remain to tell of Adam Ferris and his farm.
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Colonel Dawes and I planned luncheon at Tour d Argent in Paris enjoying duck No. 48921 and then browsed Bren tano's old books. Major General Harbord writes in the Saturday Evening Post about a day of books, tea, dinner, and a circus with trained Arab horses.
G A Shoemaker, a senior parachute jump instructor with the army air service, leaps from Martin bomber wings with three small motion picture cameras strapped to him. He falls and, if the parachute opens safely, preserves photographs of scenery and other objects of interest, a risky but valued practice noted by Popular Science Monthly.
Sheriff H L Brooks of Frio County runs a self service hotel in Pearsall where guests register themselves, erase room numbers from a board, and pay in envelopes dropped in a locked box daily or monthly. He reports only two cheating incidents since opening.
The potato's rise from a rare delicacy to a common staple in Britain is traced. A Seventeenth century treatise urged large scale cultivation but it remained scarce, with Paisley selling two sacks for a town of 5009 in 1740 and South Uist crofters resisting planting until famine pressed adoption.
A farmer's pink-cheeked daughter walks up the lane wearing grimy overalls and a satchel full of wrenches and tools. She explains she is going a milkin with trouble blamed on the old milking machine.
In Marysport England farmers attempt a polka revival with older dancers teaching the polka and lancers to the younger generation at a local hall led by William Smith and supported by mature residents of the community.
Naturalists describe the crow as an ideal thief capable of stealing eggs without spilling contents. It is noted for using its bill to pierce through eggshells without breaking the shell on the opposite side.
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