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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
3
A poem about rural haying life in a homestead yard with children at play and the daily work of mowing and gathering hay. The verse depicts labor turning to play as the day wears on and animals and family join the scene in a rustic rural setting.
Henry Thurston inspects punctuality and temperament in Thurston and Lincoln as Harold Stephenson and Willis Fuller compete for a traveling salesman post. Willis demonstrates composure after bean spills, while Harold shows anger, testing which brother earns the job in Muncie. The scene highlights emphasis on honesty, punctuality, and good nature in a growing wholesale firm.
A biographical sketch traces E H Harriman from a $200 yearly clergyman family to Wall Street clerk and stock trader. It details his moves to become Illinois Central vice president, reorganize the Erie, and build a vast railroad network with 7000 miles of new track and 2260 miles under construction, plus steamships and thousands of cars and locomotives.
The railroad system valued at 3.365 billion dollars has come under the control of Edward H. Harriman. Analysts note the shift consolidates Harriman holdings across major lines and may affect freight rates and competition.
A Tunisian sponge fleet advances beyond diving by free divers with a submarine fishing boat. Abbe Raoul’s Carthage design uses a sphero cylindrical buoy and a cupola, with interior air tanks, water ballast for depth control, a disengageable 1,500 pound ballast, and internal electric lighting. Two submarine oars propel the craft while pincers inside handle the catch, rotating within a restricted sector guided by a ball joint.
A miscellany notes England loses about 60,000 emigrants yearly while the Transvaal yields 400,000 ounces of gold monthly. The Indian empire boasts the cheapest postal service. Hydraulic presses aid seamless steel boat hulls in England. The Duke of Portland owns the world’s largest private gallery. Ground worms bring ten tons of soil to the surface per acre annually. Longmont California factory dumps 40,000 canned peas daily by machine. Austrian schools use phonographs for rhetoric. Seattle Methodists plan a large Japanese church, eyeing Rev. S Yoshio ki as pastor.
A new German company is being organized with a preliminary capital of $125,000 to establish a passenger airship service linking principal European cities. Backing comes from the Krupps and leading bankers.
Sanitarianism or half vegetarian ism spreads as ministers promote the stomach as the seat of disease banishing meat from meals. The Bishop of London’s evangelistic committee begins outdoor work with weekly Hyde Park meetings and plans extension if successful.
Among the valuable minerals of South Russia are rock salt coal coprolite kaolin and sands for glass making and other uses manganese and iron ores with iron ore ranking first in importance.
Engineering Record notes a concrete tank in San Antonio gas works in service for three years holding heavy Texas oil without leakage. The piece contrasts this with urban debates in New York, London on horse displacement by electricity and cars, while Paris sees a rising horse use.
A Maltese cat completed a 2500 mile trip from Holland Michigan in a bureau drawer wrapped in sacking and shipped by slow freight. The cat leaped out when the drawer was opened, appearing lean but unharmed and apparently in good spirits.
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