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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
3
A poetic fragment by Berton Braley from McClure's Magazine invites readers to chase travel and contentment beyond familiar life. It speaks of spring fever, roaming winds, and a creed of rovers seeking lands and seas yet unknown.
A Gloucester crew on the Nancy Lee sails into ice near the Strait of Belle Isle. A foggy doomed voyage leads to a brutal iceberg collision, capsizing, and a perilous righting. The crew, including Toby Snow, survives with heavy damage but returns home weathered and wiser.
A curious insect, a beetle with a red ruby lamp on its head and green lights on its sides, arrived from Brazil at the South Kensington Museum in London, earning it the nickname railway beetle. Dr J W Moore of Waynesboro Pa describes a new apple storage method tested on York Imperials, with plans to publish if results are promising, while notes compare sun brightness to candle flame and limelight.
Calculations cited in Nature by Professor H C Wilson suggest Stalley’s comet may return in 1910 under similar conditions to 1066. In that year it was among the grandest celestial displays and left a strong impression on medieval society.
Mons. E. A. Martel, famed French cavern explorer, cautions that many springs appearing pure in woods and hillsides may be polluted surface water seeping through fissures. He adds chalk fails to filter such water, urging care during hot months.
William Whiting of Cherry Tree township recalls his role in the Balaklava charge of 1854. He says he was sixteen, born in 1838, and served among the 600 with only a sabre cut on his left wrist as a lasting reminder of the bloody clash. He notes 181 of the 600 reported afterward and mourns fallen comrades.
In a Bank of England routine a fog excuse is common as staff sign in. A late worker recently stated his wife had twins, prompting twenty colleagues to copy the reason with ditto notes. Success Magazine notes the humorous trend in workplace punctuality.
An 1826 Elizabethtown almanac cites a French powder remedy to kill flies by tickling under the throat and dropping powder as a choking joke. The item is recounted by the New York Press, illustrating period humor on pest control.
The article explains why giant sequoias endure in the Sierra Nevada and coastal ranges. It covers historical attempts at logging, the Kaweah colony, and the 1891 Giant Forest National Park creation that halted cutting. It notes the General Sherman and Abe Lincoln trees’ sizes and seeds production.
An elderly Tennessee patient distrusts medicine given as capsules. After drinking, she feels fine but refuses food. She then sits, and her son prepares a pipe with live coal. she fires back warning that he should not come near with her ridges still in her.
The current issue features telegraph reports from Carnegie Steel Illinois Steel Republic Iron and Steel Pennsylvania Steel and about 100 other leaders across U S manufacturing. They discuss the business situation and prospects for the immediate future. The Record is noted as national in scope and a leading American business publication.
Dr John E Hill reports from the congestion committee findings on Broadway offices needing artificial lighting most of the day except midday and Exchange Place receiving limited sun two hours in the morning. Boston Transcript notes oculists report increased business due to reliance on artificial illumination.
A Bedsworth farmer set a local hay harvest record by working one field from 1.30 a m to 10 p m, totaling twenty one hours in a single day and turning the grass before stopping.
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