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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
1
A humorous verse from Chicago News contrasts many trades with a wish for comfort and three square meals. The speaker rejects farming, blacksmithing, sewing, animals, sailing, soldiers, baking, brewing, barbering, shoemaking, and hard labor, seeking a life with steady pay and freedom to roam.
Poem excerpt from John G. Neihardt in The Outing Magazine. A soldier-like speaker pleads for the heart of a man, choosing to fight despite wounds and danger, invoking God to grant resolve and condemning cowardice. The voice longs for strength, duty, and endurance.
Polly Grey frantically cares for her grandmother while a fire breaks out in their kitchen. With strong winds and a collapsing roof, she battles smoke to save her hostage grandmother and herself, seeking help as flames threaten their home.
Harper's Magazine reports a groundbreaking traverse of Tibet revealing Nin Chen Tangla, a vast mountain chain nearly two thousand miles long. The pass at Sela rises above 19 000 feet, rivaling the Himalayas in height and breadth, with passes mostly higher than those of the Karakoram.
Norwegian officials state salt is essential for codfish curing unless fish is already preserved. Curing occurs May to June on northern and western coasts with careful salting, drying on rocks, and tarpaulin stacks. Stockfish is dried without salt and exported to Catholic countries.
The Natural History Museum houses the sole solenodon specimens in the country, a rare two-species insectivorous mammal from Cuba and Santo Domingo. Once thought extinct, it was rediscovered in 1906 when A Hyatt Verrill found three living examples in Santo Domingo now in New York.
A girl named Polly Grey saves Grandma Grey and the wedding cakes from a house fire. A young man arrives, comforts Polly, and learns she is the intended bride of Nancy Hyde’s fiancé, leading to an invitation to the countryside wedding.
Washington Star notes a shift as McBIA ends abuse of De Mil lyuns. The piece questions why hostilities ceased and hints that introduction to De Millyuns led to a reaction when they encounter the powerful figure.
A collection of odd figures notes 77 million bricks in the Severn tunnel and 32 000 Vienna beggars. It says New York eggs average two per person daily and ships exceed 25 000 vessels over fifty tons. The piece also mentions Hongkong harbor, Colorado currants, Chile coal use, New York rail car collisions, and Manhattan bridge cable data.
The Chilean government appropriates 6,000,000 pesos or 2,190,000 gold dollars for housing the poor working class with a large portion to be spent in Valparaiso.
Footwear demand in New York is high with pedestrians reportedly wearing out about 28 800 pairs of shoes every day. The statistic highlights the scale of shoe commerce and daily usage in the city.
It is said that Inspector James G. Cortelyou, brother of Secretary Cortelyou, has been assigned to lead the drive against mail-order swindlers in the metropolitan area, a field in which he is recognized as an expert.
In London there are many great houses that trade globally in orchids. Most plants originate from Brazil. Rio de Janeiro botanical gardens alone house over 6000 orchid varieties.
A proposed bridge costing about 5 million dollars would replace the current steam ferry between Zealand and Falster. The project would improve the international route to Scandinavia via Gjedser by shortening travel time.
A letter from a Princeton correspondent signing as Indignant questions why Montclair receives so much press in New Jersey papers while other towns like Montclair are less noted. The Montclair Times notes the quip.
James H. Stevenson, a Pueblo, Colorado mining engineer and landowner, was inspecting land in Menard County, Texas, when he unexpectedly ran into Wilbur Stevenson, a farm laborer who turned out to be his brother he had not seen or heard from in forty years.
A playful exchange questions the term for a tea provider as a girl with giggles answers Tee-hee, framed in a light humorous dialogue about language and stereotypes.
A collage of cartoonish exchanges and quips from early 1900s newspapers. Bits include a rural exchange car trip remark, a tramp’s joke, engagement banter, a judge’s quip about a pocketbook, a wine glass mishap, and a poet’s offhand admission. The long string features lines from the Philadelphia Record and other papers, plus a joke about a university-educated speaker and a sunlit courtroom pun.
Lincoln letters accepts the Republican nomination for the presidency sent to George Ashman and the convention. He endorses the party's principles, pledges to uphold the Constitution and the union, and expresses willingness to cooperate for the principles’ practical success.
Paris tailors replace direct measurements with photographs of customers against a lighted screen showing dotted charts. The new method aims to capture body dimensions for custom fits using visual profiling instead of tape measures.
An Ohio man patents a rope stuffed tire concept and a French professor’s electric anesthesia method is proposed for painless executions. Karite oil is produced cheaply for soap and candles, and silk worm cocoon silk is described with a steam kill method. Consular reports note glass telegraph poles patented in Europe and the US, interlaced with wire. Vacuum tube electric lighting tests show efficiency gains despite initial color drawbacks.
The piece outlines Hopi marriage customs where couples bathe heads in cold water at sunrise to seal the union. It notes Navajo ceremonies are grander and humorously cites horses as a first marriage tariff, plus a taboo on future meetings between a man and his mother in law.
A devout midwestern Presbyterian minister prayed at a wedding for the couple’s prosperity, including substantial business growth. When asked for the groom’s occupation he admitted he kept a saloon, prompting the minister to mutter that the divine answer to that prayer was unnecessary.
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