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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1908
Page
13
The piece contrasts account habits with prudent spending and extols beekeeping as a flexible, healthful occupation. It discusses how shop charges tempt purchases until later bills are due, warns against perpetual debt, and describes beekeeping as accessible in urban or rural settings, with minimal weekly effort and two hives as a reasonable starting point.
A column contrasts historical and modern views on female vanity. It discusses how past societies condemned vanity, while today it is seen as a social duty to look nice. The piece notes the difference between healthy self regard and conceit, and how vanity affects social relations.
A writer in the House explains that modern beekeeping reduces swarming and stings, making it a viable money making occupation for women. It argues many women could pursue the craft for income despite common impressions linking bees with danger.
The article describes a simple Alexander palace home with a mirror paneled library. It notes a circular Popovka model ship and the Empress’s national costume adapted for court days. Details include coronation attire kept in Moscow’s Museum of the Revolution and the Empress’s four daughters.
In Germantown a domestic training institution for colored women is expanding its occupancy. It teaches basic housework and fireside skills, then advances to more complex tasks. Employers fund tuition and board, and maids invest earnings for advanced study to secure higher wages later. The home aids solving domestic labor challenges.
The article describes smocking as a returning decoration for street gowns featuring a princess skirt and contrasting bolero. It highlights muslins, linens, and light pliable fabrics, with examples of a handkerchief linen blouse, a shallow round yoke, and a linen waist embroidered with large roses.
An excerpt contrasts Arctic and tropical imagery from St Nicholas with notes on Abraham Lincoln’s youth. It describes frontier life, ice and snow, and a range of global curiosities, then details Lincoln’s meager schooling, self-help drive, and stubborn study habits amid farm labor and scarce supplies.
A publisher notes that jailbreaks and confinement have produced notable works. Wilde and others created acclaimed books while jailed, citing Bunyan, Cervantes, Defoe, Leigh Hunt, Raleigh, Pellico, and Tasso as examples of significant writing during imprisonment.
St. Nicholas suggests quiet children maintain small diaries to jot down seasonal books and articles. Both groups have value and should respect the other. Reading about past holidays enhances the pleasure of annual celebrations.
The article highlights President Roosevelt’s affection for children and his interest in their progress home life sports and books. It notes he welcomes groups of young folk at public events and remains unfazed by crying babies, reflecting his personal connection as a sympathetic elder brother to the nation’s youth.
Senator Beveridge uses a Caliph tale to illustrate adroitness. The equerry answers the Caliph by reframing the question, saying the father is greater for having begotten a greater son.
The passage recounts Abraham Lincoln as a child in Kentucky and Indiana. It notes limited schooling, spelling basics, and the sparse education at Pigeon Creek early in his life, highlighting the rudimentary learning environment of a small, forested settlement.
Rob, a pupil with a vivid memory for maps, treats geography as a game. He can locate cities and bound countries from memory but has never traveled. His belief that British Columbia lies on page sixty eight ends when the teacher reveals the picture.
Frederick VIII, newly acclaimed King of Denmark, is reported to regularly invite editors of major political journals to the royal castle for discussions on current political issues.
Fits vanish after first day of use says Dr Kline’s Restorer. A $2 trial bottle and treatise offered free by Dr R H Kung Ltd, 981 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA.
The bird time trap imitates the ant-eater tongue with sticky slime to catch ants and small insects, a mechanism used by the insect predator.
Frank J. Carney, senior partner of F. J. Carney & Co. of Toledo, swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for each catarrah case cured or not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public A W Guxason witnessed this 6th day of December, 1886. The ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally with testimonials and lists F. J. Carney & Co. as sellers. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
M. T. Hancock, killed in a California car crash, built a fortune from his risk plow. He conceived the idea while driving mules on his Georgia father's plantation about 25 years ago and perfected it a decade later, patenting in 1901. His device is used worldwide.
An advertisement claims Mull's Anti Belch Wafers cure stomach troubles including sour eructations bad breath and indigestion. It promises a free box to prove effectiveness and warns drugs harm the stomach, asserting the product is harmless and absorbing. The promotional note adds the offer may not reappear.
Coupon offer from Mull's Grapr Tonto Co. invites readers to send name address druggist’s name and 10c in stamps to receive a free sample and a 25c certificate toward future purchases. Claims the wafers aid stomach trouble by absorption and directs sending to Rock Island Illinois with full address.
All druggists charge 50 cents per box or offer mail delivery upon receipt of payment. Stamps are accepted for purchases.
The Greek cotton mills show rising production as imports of 148 units of cotton from the United States Egypt and India increase. The elevated imports indicate expanded activity at the mills and a shift in supply sources.
Akron Ohio mother Mrs George Jese reports her infant daughter suffered widespread sores and humor. After failing with three doctors, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and saw rapid improvement, noting the skin cleared “like a new born babe” after half a cake of soap and a box of Ointment. She praises the low price of seventy five cents.
The British Medical Journal asserts that men’s necks are longer now than in the past based on recent observations. The claim appears as a brief note in a medical periodical, prompting readers to consider potential changes in physique over time.
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