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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
3
A fragment from Metropolitan Magazine quotes Andrew Shaughnessy about a figure who steals a song from nature. The lines evoke the thief of melody, the thrush, whippoorwill, lark, and dawn as the wind passes through a dark valley. The passage blends poetical imagery with a sense of longing and nature untamed.
A diminutive leader Nellie leads a dog team through Alaskan hardship. After a starvation march across frozen terrain, Nellie’s heroic actions reveal a hidden fish-laden den, enabling rescue and salvation for the sick girl and crew. Nellie remains prized in mining camps and travels with the team on the river.
Johann Schmid of Suhr in Argovia proclaims his happiness in painted letters on his cottage. At fifty five he says he has never worked married ill or feared the future, living on a small income and land left by his father in his teens.
Berlin Neue Rundschau prints unseen Richard Wagner letters including a June 4 1842 note to Dresden Opera manager S reer von Luttichau thanking him for staging Rienzi. The letter reveals Wagner’s respect and gratitude and his formal dedication to the manager.
From 307,157 workers in clothing factories, 397,320 are women. The female tailors number 46,072, while male tailors total 13,984.
Harper's Weekly notes that government water and sewerage expansions in Chile will boost plumbing demand nationwide. U S share of lead pipe imports was 3 percent in 1906 with value around 24 677 dollars while bath supplies accounted for 51 percent of 21 180 dollars. Europe supplied most other items led by England for brass tubing valves and faucets. The piece contrasts rising local enterprise and trade shifts with imports and regional supply patterns.
Genesee correspondence reports a barn struck by lightning near Conests Lake. Stephen Bartlett found a shattered post and two horses rendered deaf after the crash. The animals showed no injury at first but became unresponsive until touched, later confirmed as ear damage.
A 3,000,000 foot log drive arrived at Lake Irving inlet after thirty days from Lake Itasca. The fleet moved with high water and no obstructions, traveling along the Mississippi River and Itasca to Lake Irving before being sluiced and boomed to Bemidji for local sawmill cutting. The Bemidji correspondence notes the record-breaking pace.
Three Easterners settled near the coast a year and a half ago and built a $25,000 dam a mile long and nearly forty feet high. Water comes via seven miles of ditches from the Tres Pinos and San Benito rivers. A guard with a gun watches the dam while a colony of cats chases squirrels. Crosses with ribbon at each hole flutter in the breeze to frighten the rodents away.
A swallow pair built a nest on a hatpin between two wires, shorting the Ballard suburb police alarm system. The fault lay between the Fre mont box and the next south box, requiring an electrician to confirm the issue. The nest spanned eight inches and touched both wires, causing the shutdown.
Dr. James F. Rymer, a Croydon native and English medical man, leaves Edmonton on a 1800 mile trek along the Athabasca and Mackenzie rivers. His destination is Fort Good Hope inside the Arctic Circle where he plans to stay at least three years treating Indians and Esquimaux.
The Textile World notes Mississippi will install two cotton compresses at penitentiary farms run by the state. The plan calls for ginning and compression under one roof, with improved wrapping to aid shipment to mills. This upgrade aims to meet foreign complaints about bale quality.
L Nadeau a 70 year old native of Maine has lived in Alaska, specifically Ketchikan, for forty three years and vows he would not leave. He was among Hudson Bay Company’s early workers and knows Alaska’s history well. He lives alone in a cabin with a loyal big dog and counts every local as a friend.
In This Age of Science a youth threw a pop bottle at the umpire. A policeman collar grabbed him, measured his head with a tape, and declared size 6, warning him not to repeat the act or be sent to the asylum for the feeble minded. No more bottles flew in that bleacher section.
Miss Betham-Howards in London Chronicle notes the French travelers display calm amiability on journeys. They endure discomforts without complaint and turn annoyances into pleasures, sharing joyful companionship no matter the place.
The Australian gum tree Eucalyptus regnans in the Cape Otway range rises to 415 feet, the tallest measured. Gum trees grow rapidly with a Florida specimen gaining forty feet in four years and a Guatemala tree 120 feet in twelve years, about ten feet per year.
The article catalogues ships on the Thames, noting merchantmen, liners, and schooners from many nations. It contrasts river craft with the stock curve technique in front elevations, describing curved convex fronts and arched backs.
A quotation from Oxford Varsity extols the superior smile as a valued skill for young men at universities. It notes the smile is widely studied, opens doors in later life, and even serves as a cover for an undeveloped mind, suggested for parliamentary candidates.
A Washington Herald quip notes the contrast of an old-fashioned upbringing with a modern irony as a man’s children seek his counsel, highlighting generational expectations and parental authority. The remark underscores social norms and humor in family life.
The Public Health Service report to Secretary Cortelyou cites Walter Wyman and M J Rosenau showing market milk contains millions of bacteria in New York London and Washington and ties 500 epidemics of typhoid scarlet fever and diphtheria to infected milk. Pasteurization is urged under health authority supervision with emphasis on infants and depots.
A Bryan quote compares advertising to kissing a sweetheart in the dark and a livestock seller credits Indiana Farmer for attracting a better class of buyers. The piece argues advertising helps reach informed customers and secure fair prices.
Across the South 848 mills crush cottonseed using 2608 presses, 2752 gin stands, and 3126 linters. Investment nears 85 million dollars with 4 million tons of seed used annually costing 60 million. Oil and by products value reaches about 90 million, yet only about half of the seed is currently crushed.
In a playful exchange, Tommy asks if fairy tales start with Once upon a time. His mother replies that stories sometimes begin with I have been detained at the office again tonight, a line from the New York World.
A passage from W. D. Howells in Harpers Magazine questions motives behind aid to the poor. It argues mixed motives guide rich donors, including pity for others and self interest, with charity tempered by need to limit generosity to the deserving.
A collection of wry observations on marriage, gender roles, and male behavior. The narrator lampoons male vanity and societal norms, noting how desire, promises, and effort shape female and domestic life. Read as satirical reflections from a 1900s column.
The flood shifts the river, letting Missouri City in Clay County reach the main channel for the first time in years. The town, once off the river map, awakens to steamer access as the Chester visits the old landing.
A large steel lighthouse built in Thames was erected in its yard and then disassembled for shipment to Cape Campbell New Zealand. The structure rises sixty five feet and parts were numbered as they were sent to the site for reassembly.
David Gill, a farm laborer, fell about one hundred feet while searching for eggs on a hillside in Aberdeenshire Scotland. The incident was reported as a fatal fall with Gill losing his life during the activity.
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