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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
1
A fragmentary elegy addressed to a mother asking her to guard and comfort a young girl. The speaker recalls a year passing since the child arrived and notes the baby’s recognition of the speaker’s name, conveying tender maternal concerns.
In a snowbound village Miss Frazier, a lonely spinster, befriends a rough but kind farm manager who helps her with warmth and companionship. He brings wood and food, shares stories, and proposes marriage, ending her isolation as they plan a life together by the fire.
A Maine captain recalls a 1896 voyage to Santo Domingo with a government pilot. He recounts polygamy, a brutal cock fight scene, and threats against him as he fled on horse and boat. He criticizes local governance, noting executions and brutal living conditions before returning to New York.
A young boy, son of a Methodist minister, reflects on his family's itinerant life and jokes that heaven will be where they finally settle, after moving four times in eight years. The anecdote critiques clergy mobility through Bobby’s innocent wit.
A Chicago News note recounts a door scene where an agent offers a patent burglar alarm and is told the proposer wants a device that would put burglars to sleep instead of alarming them. The exchange highlights a humorous twist on security ideas.
A two mile railroad bridge spanning the Columbia River in Washington state has been completed. The new structure forms a key link for rail traffic, easing crossing and increasing capacity across the river.
An editorial urges enforcement against speeding by motorists and criticizes automobile clubs for not taking stronger official action. It calls for clubs to revoke members who repeatedly drive recklessly and to back measures that curb the speed mania to protect public safety.
The Department of Agriculture will study wild Jamaican cotton to identify traits for improving domestic cotton varieties. The experiments aim to establish a new starting point for breeding programs and enhance quality and yield in cultivated cotton.
The long decline in Canadian shipping appears halted as last year’s shipping register shows a net gain for the first time since 1878, reversing a thirty year downturn.
The article describes towering cedars and firs in a Puget Sound valley. A 63 foot circumference cedar allows horse passage, while firs reach 200 to over 300 feet in height. When cut, the forest trembles as the logging crew signals timber and watches the giant fall, leaving bark and dust in the air.
The Bowling Green Times Journal reports Rev. L E Campbell’s cat Whitcomb Riley died aged over twenty one years. Named for the poet, the cat outlived a Chicago feline hailed as world’s oldest and surpasses that record by several months.
A report notes that the thickness of a soap bubble film is about two and a half millionths of an inch. The detail highlights the extreme thinness of soap films in experimentation.
A vivid Leslie's Weekly account details nitroglycerin production from giant retorts to blasting powder. Readers learn of giant lead coils cooling, acids heating, and the careful orchestration of hundreds of thousands of gallons under electric lights. The piece emphasizes constant vigilance and danger amid a vast network of nitroglycerin houses and pulp processing for dynamite and gelatin.
The Buffalo Times discusses theories on appendicitis linking cooking vessels to health. It notes French use of copper kettles and verdigris poisoning, but argues cleanliness and scrubbing of utensils, not material, are key to preventing inflammation.
A minister ends opening remarks to children when Mrs. Berkeley hurriedly writes a note after realizing she forgot to turn off the gas. She slips the note to her usher husband who passes it to the minister. The message Go home and turn off the gas! provokes stunned reactions.
The inaugural English regatta occurred on the Thames between London Bridge and Millbank on June 23, 1775, drawing local rowing enthusiasts and marking a milestone in competitive sailing.
An elderly Choctaw man named UTLOUS Snnoluth died near Denison Texas aged ninety eight. He slept in his coffin on every birthday and died in the coffin. The text notes the first Jewish cemetery once at Oliver and New Bowery streets in New York, now largely gone.
Twenty million feathers are shipped from Germany to England yearly for millinery. A three mile water slide near the St Lawrence River in Canada moves pulp wood at 8000 cubic feet per hour. The Frauenfeld archivist uncovers a twelfth century Book of Hours. An apple tree aged 150 near Bally Pennsylvania bears fruit. Two twelve year olds in Georges Mills harvest thirteen quarts of wild raspberries in eight hours. A Stratford Hollow stalk yields 196 kernels. A Cornish barn roof requires 23 500 shingles. Lipton’s three America's Cup attempts cost about 500 000 for yachts with intrinsic value around 250.
Jethro E. Bodwell unearthed a meteor in a Springvale cemetery in Maine. It buried itself about two feet underground and weighed 45 percent pounds.
An English watering place advertised as an ideal picnic spot with strict temperance except Sundays aims to boost business. The Robinson mine in South Africa led world production with a $4,385,710 operating profit and $3,201,000 in dividends. Two French army dogs drew light ambulances carrying 160 pounds over 375 miles, illustrating wartime use.
A young woman notices a gray haired man in the masher class watching her on a cross town ferry. He offers to carry her bag. she refuses politeness but tips him a dime for his effort.
The Bishop of Richmond recounted his father the farmer who planted flax seed for a table-cloth. He bragged at dinner that he grew the cloth himself after sending the flax to be made, and whispered he had planted a napkin to keep the secret.
The wife of a Lincolnshire laborer and ratcatcher won a separation citing her husband’s neglect to provide food. He brought home rats to feed himself, the family, and the pets, skinned and roasted them for dinner. The wife refused to eat them, but Hodgson and the children did. She helped make a rat meat pie per his orders.
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