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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
6
In a humorous survey the Atchison Globe notes few women die old maids as many marry late, while men over fifty boast of bachelorhood as a clever escape. The New York Press predicts waistcoats with a knitted canvas design to pair with tweed, serge, and finer fabrics like silk or velvet.
The Manxman Hall Caine plans another country visit with his wife, who acts as secretary and literary adviser. She dominates Isle of Man social life, handles correspondence, and types manuscripts. She will not endure social exactions in America.
The New York Times notes Paris milliners perfume hats with scented sachets at bow bases and pestled flowers. They weave scented wool into ribbons and use tiny vinaigrettes to refresh odors. Hats hang around a perfumed case to retain fragrance for daily use.
Professor Walter McNab Miller of Missouri University notes women must master sciences like bacteriology and chemistry to keep the world clean. His wife Mrs Helen Guthrie Miller chairs the Pure Food Committee of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs and promotes the pure food program through women’s clubs nationwide. She was born in Zanesville Ohio, educated at Putnam Seminary, and married in San Francisco. She studied food sciences in Nevada, California, Leipsic, and Missouri. She is a mother of two sons and their chum, active in charity, health, and college organizations.
Hourly fashion notes forecast a bold autumn trend with waistcoats replacing or matching coats. Designers show wide variety in cuts and fabrics from corduroy velvet to brocaded silk satin. Knitted options emerge for cold weather and bold embroidery appears in new designs.
The Duchess of Marlborough has joined English suffragettes. Mrs. Philip Snowden describes her meeting with Dr. Aked at No 2 West Eighty-Sixth Street and notes the Duchess's possible roles, influences, and links to Annie Kenney and Cristabel Pankhurst in the movement.
An inventor unveils a new army pack patterned after the Alaska back load used for 10 to 15 years. Tested by soldiers from English and American forces, it reportedly frees the chest, allows arm swing, distributes weight on the back, protects the spine, and enables shooting, running, and climbing without chafing. The designer, a National Guard veteran with 12 years’ service who fought in the Spanish–American War, touts its rugged field performance.
An unnamed visitor recounts Grover Cleveland welcoming a late night caller, then meeting his daughter Esther in the private White House office. The President, smiling, offers toys from the famous desk made from Sir John Franklin’s ship in a moment likened to Lincoln with Tad.
A large tower crane rises 90 feet above the Vegesak shipyard yard in Germany. The revolving head reaches 52.5 feet for the three ton hoist and 29.5 feet for the six ton hoist. The square steel tower is heavily braced and travels on two-wheel trucks at each corner. Jib has two box section girders around the tower and suspends from the pivot hood to balance trolley loads. Wind load rating is 50 psf with ballast boxes of 16 tons per side and rail fasteners to secure the base when out of service or under heavy loads.
The article details millinery trends with Directoire lines, pleated ribbon hats, swanskin trim, and ostrich crown pieces. It notes color schemes from peacock blues to pink and lavender, wide brims, turbans, and feather accents, plus new coat shapes and collar styles.
Ingenious Johnnie refuses to share a bright red apple until his mother explains generosity. She asks him to divide the apple and give the larger portion to his sister. He then suggests telling sister to be generous, ending the lesson with a charitable spirit.
A Washington Herald excerpt portrays a woman doubting deep romance, challenging a partner who speaks in hollow phrases and dreams of life as a staged society play. The exchange emphasizes skepticism toward idealized love.
A fragment discusses a wood cord yielding one ton of mechanical pulp or half ton of chemical pulp. It notes Mediterranean shellfish producing silk as fine as cocoons and mentions a river entering a cave near Trieste. It cites an electric furnace reaching 7200 degrees, claiming it would dwarf a red hot iron bar in heat.
Experiments abroad show balloons at 600 to 2006 yards hit only once in six attempts while safe at 3000 yards. Even when struck the gas bag suffered minimal damage and the balloon could continue for hours before landing due to escaping gas.
The Argentine ant, once devastating Louisiana sugar crops, has appeared on the Pacific Coast. It is a aggressive pest that drives out the native cattle ant, harms crops, and protects scale insects, making it one of the more injurious pests introduced to the United States.
At Bevington England a 19.5 acre plot uses a telegraph wire net and a 2 HP engine driving a dynamo to generate about 100000 volts. The system, supervised by a son of Sir Oliver Lodge, yields 35.5 bushels per acre of Canadian wheat versus 25.5 on nearby land, a 40 percent increase.
The California brown pelican ranges off Mexico and Lower California with a four to five foot body. Nesting peaks in May and June, typically on the ground, with weed stalks and grass lining the nest. They fly in single file with a signaling leader and dive head first for fish, while gulls harass them for easy prey.
A Toronto lawyer’s habit of lecturing staff is revealed when Tommy the office boy explains his pay. He jokes that his wage is ten thousand a year in wages with four dollars weekly in cash and the rest in legal advice.
The article reviews how almost all quakes fall in two main belts the Mediterranean circum pacific and explains that most shocks occur within these zones. It notes that San Francisco Valparaiso and Kingston lie in seismic regions and details fault plane movement as a major quake mechanism with the San Francisco event linked to horizontal crust shift.
The item notes Hankow hosts an $850,000 electric light plant owned by Chinese interests. It reports Tibet trade by sea via Calcutta, Korea's cigarette market share held by American British tobacco, rising Malaysian rubber and Federated Malay tin outputs, and large 1907 08 India trade figures. It adds Hsieh Chang match factory details, China’s strict buying standards, and Korea's 20 million population consuming 840 million cigarettes annually with Japan supplying 40 million monthly.
Israel Ludlow of New York declares spherical balloon racing unprofitable. The Duke of Abruzzi sails from Havre for America to wed Katherine Elkins. Yuan Shih Kai seeks a square deal for China in talks on a U S alliance. Captain Pritchard to succeed Watt as Cunard commodore. Bishop Potter's will filed for probate in New York. Castro threatens to shoot rebels as traitors if revolution occurs. Harvard’s Elot touts urban welfare from voter education. Dr Charcot elected honorary member of Rio de Janeiro Geographical Society. Pourquoi Pas expedition leader arrives. James Helm reassigned to command Idaho due to ill health. Alfred Tennyson Dickens lectures on his father's life in Australia. D'Orsay and Tennyson named godparents at christening. Vladimar Poulsen, 38, Danish wireless pioneer, links Lingby and Weisensee by radio.
Farmers note hens often reach their peak egg production in the third year. A hen may lay between 300 and 500 eggs over her average lifetime.
In the Yukon mining regions electric lines have been installed to convey power up to sixty miles, supporting expanded operations and potential growth of remote mining sites.
A London News report notes a New York window display in an eighteenth avenue shop showing a large pile of Bibles priced very cheap with the inscription Satan trembles when he sees, Bibles sold as few as there.
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