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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
5
An article explains digestion is nerve controlled and weak nerves drain stomach energy. It claims Dr Miles Nervine restores nervous energy and powers the stomach to perform its functions.
An Asheville reader recounts long term relief from nervous indigestion after trying Dr. Miles' Nervine and Heart Cure. The letter credits a dozen bottles with improving body and mind and urges others to purchase with a guaranteed first bottle. Also reported is a local accident: 10 year old Herb Weikert Jr. is knocked from a horse near Center Square suffering a concussion and bruises, while his father battles malaria at home.
Severe threshing accident leaves Wesley Reiker of Paradise township York county with multiple fractures and serious injuries after his coat snagged in a horse powered machine. Other items note a shade tree mutilation fine, a wild guineas partridge flock, a fatal impalement, a stairway injury, and two typhoid deaths alongside an old engine and boiler sale notice.
The second annual Conewago Grange P. of H. picnic will be at Starvey Flickinger's grove on the New Oxford and Bonneauville road in Mount Pleasant township, about 23 miles from the previous site. A large dancing floor and phonograph music will entertain attendees with amusements planned for all. Prominent speakers include Prof. H. E. Van Norman from State College and Prof. J. M. Shrope from Pottsville, among others. Refreshments will be served and the event runs afternoon into evening with all invited.
A large group gathered Monday evening at Mountpleas ant township home of Mr J Proctor Snyder and family for his birthday anniversary. Music came from Profs John Dicks John Staubb and Jere Decker and a graphophone. Guests enjoyed games social talk and a bounteous lawn supper before departing.
Charles Shanabrook buys E.8 Schriver farm in Mt Joy. George Osborne to open a tin and general store in Swartz building on Philadelphia street next week. George Schott buys Jacob Sheely’s farm near Red Land and will take possession next April. A. I. Gitt recovering at daughter Kate Himes’s Center Square home after East Berlin fall. Chas. G Miller promotes footwear on Hanover street and Mrs. C. O. Myers suffers rib injuries at Grangers picnic venue.
The National Manufacturing Association of 7000 druggists selects Peroxide Cream as the best formula for tan sunburn freckles and related conditions. Ep T Auxer A D 8 representative promotes the product saying use for sun care.
M. R. Reardon’s Indianapolis stallion Allen Winter won the Readville Mass race before about 20,000 harness fans, taking the top share of a $50,000 purse amid a new handicap format that set horses behind shortened starting marks. The final payout split $30,000 to the winner, $10,000 to second, and smaller shares to the next four, with a $1000 sixth place.
Elizabeth Robinson eighteen months old daughter of Albert Robinson a farmer from North Branch Kentucky was bitten when she stuck her hand between boards in a hog pen and a hog began chewing it. Doctors fear possible amputation as the child’s hand remains trapped.
Burton B. Jarvis twenty six of Terre Haute Ind. died at the county hospital after two days and nights lying under a tree near a Los Angeles ostrich farm while red ants swarmed over his body and ate him.
Light snow fell in Baltimore suburbs Wednesday night with additional flurries reported in other parts of Maryland.
More than thirty miners died in a Hailey-Ola coal mine near Haileyville Oklahoma after a fire destroyed the hoisting shaft and air shaft, cutting off ventilation for workers underground near McAllister.
Colonel William F. Vilas former postmaster general and secretary of the interior under Cleveland died in Madison Wisconsin after a five week illness.
Gertrude Homekr aged nineteen months in Mercer hospital with hydrophobia suspected after a dog bite on the sidewalk a month earlier. She showed rabies signs and during a convulsion struck her sister who doctors are watching.
Atlantic City September report on the Boardwalk shooting last Wednesday night. Charles B. Roberts remains hospitalized with conflicting condition updates as investigators pursue leads. Detective Wilson returns from Baltimore with an account of interviews with W. S. G. Williams, husband of the woman present. Williams claims alibi at his country home.
The Augusta flood leaves extensive damage across mills warehouses and schools. Authorities report about sixty deaths and ongoing body recoveries as workers and residents face high losses and drowned workers in the lower valley.
Five men were killed instantly and five others seriously injured at the Warrior Run colliery of Lehigh Valley Coal Co near Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. A runaway car struck two loaded cars with twenty men aboard as they were being hoisted to No 3 lift. The head of the car lost control causing it to jump tracks and collide with the standing cars. Only six escaped unharmed.
Mrs Bonnie Rosenbloom and her sixteen year old daughter Eva were admitted to bail in Somerset Pennsylvania as witnesses in the Windber murder case of Solomon Jacob Rosenbloom. The murder charge is to be dropped for now while authorities pursue Alexander Rosenbloom, believed to have fled the country after being named a suspect. The District Attorney describes this as the prudent course awaiting his arrest.
A Cameron river flood after a cloudburst washed away houses at Folsom New Mexico. Fifteen people are reported dead and eleven bodies have been recovered. Ten miles of Colorado and Southern railway track and twelve bridges were washed out causing trains to be laid out for forty eight hours.
General Alexander P. Stewart longtime Confederate lieutenant general died at Biloxi Mississippi in his eighty seventh year of age after a long illness. The news surprised relatives and friends.
The Queen Louise balloon with Lt J J Bennett and Tom L Sample started from Columbus and drifted over Lake Erie. A faulty valve forced ballast release and the Mohegan steamer rescued the two passengers after they cut the gas bag, bringing them to Buffalo safely.
Mrs. Charles Chubb, 24, wife of a Goldenwood farm employee near Lock Hinton Pennsylvania, dropped a loaded shotgun butt down through a stovepipe hole to her husband. the trigger struck a projection, the gun exploded, and she was killed instantly as farm dinner guests looked on.
Half submerged launch found in Great Egg Harbor bay is taken as evidence in a suspected double drowning. Charles Bateman aged twenty two and Miss Kate Beam aged twenty from South Atlantic City vanished after going out on the bay Friday night. The boat was recovered by life savers and identified by Amos Bateman, father of the missing man.
In New York three carpenters working on a temporary scaffold under the dome of the old custom house on Wall Street were hurled eighty feet when a support cable parted. Andrew O'Malley died at once, Charles Clark died later, and James Graham survived initially with skull fracture and internal injuries before dying.
Obituaries and incidents from the period include Joseph Butcher, Camden, 93, death. 2,000 workers at Cherry River Boom & Lumber in Richwood. Clayton Williams in Chicago jail death by starvation. Clifford Savage, the Flying Dutchman, death by gas in New York. Subsequent items note the Granite City reopening of rolling mills. Elmira cigar union endorsement. P O S A camp plan. Panama Canal Zone census. Charlie Scarlett’s accidental killing. Parsons Camp Ground fire. Cannon opening GOP campaign in Indiana. Rev Milligan suicide. Rev Killis death. hydrophobia in Allen town. Norbert Woodbury suicide. Armstrong shooting in Tennessee. tomato yield in Lancaster. drowning in Laurel Delaware. coal miners strike called off. Tyson death by apoplexy. tobacco fatality in Montgomery County.
Market quotations show wheat firmer with No 2 spot around 964% and futures, corn mixed and dull, oats fair to firm with varied No 2 to No 4 quotes, butter steady with dairy prints at 16 to 26 cents, eggs firm across Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia and Southern regions.
Cattle slow with prices around 6.25 to 6.50 for prime cattle and 5.80 to 6. Hogs rise with heavy and medium classes varying near 7.25 to 6.80. Sheep, lambs, and veal calves appear with mixed quotes in a fluctuating market.
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