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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1908
Page
8
The Army boosts pay across the board to combat demoralization. Privates start at 15 dollars monthly with a clothing allowance, rising to 18 for second enlistments and 21 for third, with increases through seventh enlistments. Corporals and first sergeants gain larger jumps, from 25 to 45 monthly, plus a 20 percent foreign service hike.
The record notes corn appears in Kansas during Coronado expedition of 1541-42. Professor Williston identified charred Indian pueblos in Scott County dated to about two and a half centuries ago.
A Texas Baptist preacher from Whitesboro testifies that after four years of lumbago pain he found kidney pills relieved all symptoms after a short time. He declines public display of his name but offers the experience to help others. Sold by dealers, 50 cents a box, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Prof Bier of Berlin introduces a venous transfusion method for limb surgeries that renders the patient unconscious without general anaesthesia. Surgeons can operate in a bloodless painless field while the patient remains mentally alert and the rest of the body remains normal.
Dispatches from New York report J. Pierpont Morgan guiding a new automobile trust with starting capital of 25,009,000. The plan aims to be a 'good' trust that will not disturb the general public, who mainly wish to see cars pass by and hope for rides while avoiding them at times.
A Virginia mother credits Grape-Nuts with restoring her health and enabling her to nurse her four month old baby. She reports a strong recovery after adopting the cereal and notes both she and the child improved, with the doctor recommending the dietary change.
Paris correspondence from the Pall Mall Gazette notes beggars fill the streets during the New Year season. Tricksters persuade passers by with poignant stories and staged losses to solicit coins from strangers, with one governess figure asking for thirty centimes and return of a card.
The Kansas City Star quotes Roswell Field describing Mrs. Leslie Carter’s view that marriage is part of an actress’s artistic education. It argues that great performers gain life experiences through matrimony and that professionals frequently enter or exit marriage as a detail of their craft.
Fire killed timber, long deemed worthless, is proving durable for railway ties and mine timbers. U S Forestry Bureau findings in Colorado show ties resist spikes and do not cut under plates, with timbers from 35 to 50 year old burns still usable. Red fir and yellow pine lead a mix including white pine and spruce after treatment. fire seasoned timber also finds crates and packing box use, signaling potential profit for forest reserves.
London Mail recounts Liverpool surgeon Robert Jones praising spinal cocaineation for anesthesia when other methods fail. A large old poacher underwent leg bone removal after injections into the cerebro spinal fluid, while under insensibility and then told tales of his craft.
In Ayrshire a missing girl Miss Campbell case showed bloodhounds aiding officials. Provost of Gatehouse ordered three hounds from George Oliphant, secretary of the Bloodhound Hunt Club. Hounds worked three days through treacherous country to reach a pool edge, where the body was recovered after the pool was dragged.
The article surveys unusual marriage markets in Europe and beyond. It describes Swiss cantons hold the feast of the garlands with flowers and door-tied bouquets, Tunisian markets with dowry displays and a gold girdle, and Ooraca maidens with a conjugal lamp. It notes England also hosts similar practices on Good Friday at St. Martha's Will and other rural fairs.
A New Zealand postmaster at Te Uku, Auckland, Mr. Warnest C. Moon, 37, operates the office with his feet due to an arm deformity. He writes with an indelible pencil, issues money orders and postal notes, stamps dates, and even uses carpentry tools with his feet, earning inspectors’ praise after eleven years in charge.
The Kennbec Journal questions the fate of a posse sent to kill wolves blamed for deer deaths at Little Sebago Lake. A denial arrives that Peary’s Eskimo dogs escaped to mainland to masquerade as wolves, linking the Sebago incident to past reports of panthers and wild wolf dogs in Maine.
A notorious mountain moonshiner nicknamed Wild Bill was found guilty by a Federal court in Georgia. The judge, noting his long criminal record, ordered six years in Atlanta Federal Prison. Bill, calm, muttered I am glad he wasn't mad at me as he left with the marshal.
In connection with Grover Cleveland’s death it notes only two prior times the U S had no living ex president. Washington died in 1799 when Adams was in office. Jackson died in 1845, two years before Grant retired to private life. Also mentions London efforts to emigrate British women to South Africa.
In mid February Nassau turtlers prepare small schooners and crews to hunt hawkbill turtles across Bahama waters to Grand Turk and Santo Domingo. Nets and gear are described, with shells valued from $5 to $25 a pound and lantern backed shells at $25, while meat is sometimes saved for food and soup material is often wasted.
Two college men spend a summer in a large electric works lab, using practical work to supplement studies. A retired janitor smugly notes he started that way, as the youths give the grimy windows a thorough cleaning during a slack July afternoon.
A bright man claims washing the face with cold water relieves headaches by opening pores and boosting circulation. He says he has used the method successfully many times and recommends it as a quick cure.
Scattered across Asia Africa and South America about 18 000 missionaries with their families form a total population of no less than 30 000 persons in the region.
The Barbadoes cotton industry, begun in 1903 with 16 acres, now covers 6 985 acres and yields an estimated $500 000 in value. A recent conference of Barbadoes cotton-growers aimed to promote the sector’s interests.
The advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces with a $100 reward for uns cured cases and invites readers to request testimonials from VJ Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. An aside notes a Vienna municipal project building horse slaughterhouses costing over $200,000 on a 3,300 square yard site.
A reader shares experiences with Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Remedies curing eczema after three summers of outbreaks. A Michigan mother cites a Indiana anecdote of a child whose severe eczema cleared and never returned, attributed to Cuticura.
The Chicago Record Herald notes widespread teacher scarcity in Germany due to low salaries. It cites average class sizes of 61 seven years ago, with Saxony and Prussia showing large underfilled and crowded classes and thousands of unfilled teaching posts rising from 1,828 in 1901 to 3,049 in 1906.
Herr Gutzah of Berlin adapts a standard parlor stove with an electric radiator element to create a more efficient heater. The arrangement reduces air drying by promoting circulation and ventilation while using normal current to heat a room in about an hour. Large German tile stoves retain heat, keeping costs moderate.
In Norway a factory’s six turbines will receive water via a seven mile tunnel from a lake at 3,536 feet above sea level. The total head reaches 3,287 feet, 72 feet higher than previous records.
Study of weather charts is now general in the elementary schools of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein with the object of making their value in agriculture better known.
The California Fig Syrup Co promotes its Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a safe pleasant laxative, trusted by physicians and widely sold by leading druggists. It emphasizes known wholesome ingredients, ethical sourcing, and a price of fifty cents per bottle.
Thousands of American women in their homes sacrifice daily to duty. The piece warns that women overdo and suffer in silence from pains and ailments, seeking help to overcome the burdens that make life hard, urging action for those faithful women.
Mrs I Elsworth of Mayville New York and Mrs W P Boyd of Beaver Falls Pennsylvania report relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims the remedy has cured displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and other symptoms and invites women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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