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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1902
Page
3
A Brisbane mine manager jailed for two years for draining funds by false pretences left a court read letter that mocks unsafe mining. He describes sabotaging a shaft to claim salt and gold, salting the mine to mislead markets, and a comical poisoning of a visitor to spread fear as he boasted of pulling the ropes correctly.
In the United States the Endicott sun-dial, made in London in 1620, arrived with Governor Endicott and settlers to Salem. It resided at the Endicott mansion then passed to the East India Marine Society and Essex Institute. Early dials traced to Kink Ahaz in 742 BCE and sundial development across Rome and Europe are described, with 1669 Whitehall installations by Francis Hell.
The passage describes a sphere with rings representing hour circles and a sun dial method where exposure to sun beams reveals the hour. It notes an alterable time indication by candle clocks used by King Alfred and early efforts to curb candle burn rates, likening time to melting tallow and damp measures.
The Chicago Record Herald notes that Greece preserves ancient naming tradition in its streets hotels and shops. Boulevards celebrate the University and Academy while Mercury is honored on the main business street. Homes baptize children Hermes Alcibiades Homer and other classic figures appear in directories and local usage.
The piece traces skating from early ox bone skates in the twelfth century to later wooden frames with iron runners in the fourteenth century. It recalls a sixteenth century incident when Dutch skaters aided by mobility helped fend off Don Frederick’s forces at Amsterdam, as noted by the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The passage reviews manuscripts across genres, noting many lack human interest or artistic merit. It cites essays, travel sketches, character studies, and stories that are overengineered or moralistic, with some few exceptions showing genuine genius despite flawed structure.
A Tennessee blacksmith, J House of Overton County, and another poor laborer, both supporting large families on small wages, unexpectedly receive their shares of a grandfather's estate totaling more than $150,000. House, unaware of the death, learns he has inherited from a millionaire English landowner who died last year, and he and his kin face relief after years of near starvation.
Dr John Henry Barrows, Oberlin College president, recalls a tale of his stenographer and a valentine for his father. The charming anecdote ends abruptly as the Chicago Record-Herald stops the story, leaving the punchline unread.
The piece compares Tudor and old style coronation costumes with a garbled 14th century description of Richard III's crown robes. It notes the long robe, doublet, stomacher, velvet, ermine trimming, and spurs, and hints that interpreting archaic phrasing would mystify scholars the day before Edward VII’s coronation.
A fragmentary notice from the Louisville area reports Harold Douglass tied to local advertising. It mentions a landlord named Harold Boy Robinson and references a Kentucky landowner with an announcement in a local paper. The text is garbled but centers on a person named Harold Douglass and advertising activity.
A Chicago Record collection of maxims notes it is no disgrace to be poor yet social inconvenience exists. It claims nature softens hardship, experience teaches, absence sharpens longing, and even a grand pedigree may lack virtue.
The French Legion of Honor, the largest order of merit globally, has grown to about five hundred thousand members.
Mrs Sophie Binns president of the Young People's Christian Temperance Union at Fruitvale Bal recounts relief from ovarian congestion and inflammation after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the herbal formula with restoring health after months of weakness and painful menstruation and urges others to avoid inferior remedies.
In the darkness before dawn, swarthy gauchos ride with dark eyes and slight frames. Their blood blends Indigenous, Spanish, and Moorish roots, yet the pampa in their gaze and voice marks them as not Spaniards. Their hospitality and ceremony, from cow skull stools to teacups, reveal a grave, hospitable care that embodies wildness and education in equal measure.
A Postmaster General report notes six letters pass for every postal card in the U S mail last year highlighting postal card's weak standing against letters.
A newspaper excerpt touts Vogeler Curative Compound as the sole remedy for indigestion and stomach troubles. Mr W Bowell of Wirral, England, praises its effects after long use and notes the formula hails from a London doctor. St Jacobs Oil of Baltimore offers free samples on request.
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