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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
1
Stephen helps a stranger with a lame horse Jerry and earns dinner at the Warren farm. The visitor offers Stephen a town grocery job, but Stephen chooses honesty over liquor sales and later accepts a modest country start, proving his resolve and family support.
At Jerusalem Mr. BE Howe notes 2000 Russian pilgrims packed the Greek church. An ornate three hour service impressed with a strong choir and archbishop procession. Pilgrims repeatedly crossed selves and kissed relic cases while the crowd recalled frontier Methodist days.
In the Maranon region of Peru Mr. C. R. Knock rents a thatched adobe by twenty cents a week. A wrathful señora challenges his occupancy claiming no right to the house, followed by more claimants. A Gobernador mediator settles temporarily with a twenty-cent deposit while a court decides.
Aunt Mary tells children a true tale from her childhood in Africa. Mollie disobeys, strays into a forest and awakens to a lion's gaze. Chotee, the nurse, saves her by shouting a wild yell as the lion approaches, and Mollie learns the lesson.
In Canada a Swede named Andersen tames two bear cubs while riding a bareback bear and loses a boot. Cowboys doubt the tale until investigators confirm the events, noting the bear was young and the cubs new to their dam. Victor Endersby reports in Recreation.
A brief tip from the Indianapolis News advises not melting butter on the stove. Instead heat the cake dish with hot water, wipe dry, then place butter inside to melt.
A Indianapolis News item describes a young woman displaying princess gowns by hanging them across pasteboard mailing tubes covered with Dresden ribbon. The tubes are suspended by a narrow ribbon run through the tube, used instead of loops.
A woman suggests ordinary yellow soap can mend torn fabric as well as gum tissue. Wet the soap, rub it along the tear on the wrong side, then press with a moderately hot iron. Try it as an experiment, if nothing else. Indianapolis News.
The New York Press suggests a home remedy to restore dull kitchen paint. Boil one pound of bran in a gallon of water for an hour, then wash the painted surface with thin bran water to refresh varnished walls.
The Indianapolis News notes yellow drawing rooms are back in style after a fourteen to fifteen year gap. A cloth of gold wallpaper and white or buff-painted walls create the season’s most striking color scheme and最佳 wall treatment for the current spring.
The article prescribes a leather cleaning paste using French chalk Fuller's earth starch yellow ochre and sweet oil. Apply as a thin paste and let dry then brush off. Polish with wax melted in turpentine. For darkening add oil to wax. A beaten egg white can restore dull leather. Leather bags may be cleaned with warm water and oxalic acid.
A collection of vintage recipes describes Pepper Meat, Cocoanut Pie with frosting, Leg of Lamb with carrots and oysters, Corn Cake batter and Egg Puffs. Includes instructions for boiling, baking, frosting and serving with sauces and toast.
In McClure's Magazine George Kibbe Turner recounts how two American bicycle makers pursued controlled flight in the early 1900s near Dayton Ohio. They test balance and turning, noting semi automatic reflex steering and a three mile flight, with a September circle and year end flights, while the Wright Brothers assert a wartime aerial lead for sale to the government.
A collection of compact maxims and wry observations. Includes Alaric on grass and ease, Raleigh on borrowing as canker, Bible warning on small faults, and Puck on language as thought’s vehicle yet often empty.
The collection presents pithy quotes on politics and gender from a range of period sources. It juxtaposes views on governance with social commentary and humor from Chinese, New York Press, New Knowledge, and Puck.
A Louisville Courier Journal quote contrasts people who see no value in life with those who gain little by investing none. The remark frames motivation and return tied to personal effort and attitude.
This excerpt explains visual illusions and brain interpretation of stimuli. It notes that flashes linger in the retina far longer than the event, making distant objects seem stationary or larger, while pain sensations travel from nerves to the brain. It emphasizes misjudgments of distance and size in fog or twilight.
The island is described as an isolated utopia 1500 miles southwest of the Cape of Good Hope. Eighty one English subjects live simply with each householder owning an acre under cultivation. Cattle sheep and poultry provide meat while fish are abundant. Groceries arrive by trading with passing ships. Citizens are said to be healthy happy and content.
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