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Newspaper
Abbeville Press And Banner
Location
Abbeville, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
7
A curious letter from Henry Jonstone of St Nicholas warns readers about mischief and secrecy. It speaks of many tiny people controlling the sea and forming monuments and forts. The missive requests no guilty secrets and invites orderly conduct.
A down on his luck speaker bets on a Greek lecture using rented magic lantern slides in Walla Walla. He farms a landlord’s help to stage Euripides Aristophanes Athens lecture with antique views, selling tickets and delivering a lively but improvised talk about ancient and modern Greece.
A Washington Star fragment recalls a speaker touring Greece in a fever of exultation. He recounts profit from a lecture, encounters a well dressed tourist in a Walla Walla hotel, and a plan to lecture on Tibet upon returning home. The memory of the stranger’s green tourist grin lingers.
Grapeland rancher John McCormick was bitten in the right calf by a rattlesnake in the Santa Ana Mountains last Saturday. He opened the wound, inserted snake flesh, and used a bandage while walking seven hours to reach help. Doctor Summer Quint from Los Angeles treated him as poison spread.
James Tibbetts of Neck Road reports moose visiting his barnyard for days. When he pumps water for cattle the animals drink from the trough then wander through a fence toward the woods. The farm sits near streams and Sebastio nook River, yet the moose repeatedly use the Tibbetts pump. No harm to livestock observed.
Fragmentary OCR yields a garbled dialogue about weight reduction and attire. The exchange mentions a light suit and food intake with unclear names and context, lacking coherent event or participants.
Condensed milk imports in Tapan are rising sharply, moving from 20,000 dollars in 1901 to 1,051,000 in 1807. The United States supplies Miuvrlert percent, Great Britain seventy-five percent and Switzerland thirty-one percent.
The article notes roughly 200000 trap shooters in the United States and Canada, mostly club members, with grounds owned or leased by clubs. It explains the shift from pigeon targets to Blue Rock and discuss the sport's impact on gun and ammunition trades, including a single target maker supplying 21000000 targets last year.
A synthesis of how fashions originate from female rivalry and the desire to please men. The essay notes the shift from plain hats to elaborate ensembles, the influence of global trends, and how rulers and dressmakers shape style. It cites a Bohemian Magazine piece on women dressing to please men.
Papuan medicine men are held in high esteem for their energetic remedies. They massage the patient near the pale area, producing lip noises as they rub. The process is tiring, with the healer pausing for hot water boiled with taro, seeking a mysterious substance to extract. payment depends on success, otherwise no fee.
A jumble of tips and notices says fishermen should carry pepper to lure fish and prepare to lasso them when they surface. The text then notes the Chinese government plans to raise the import duty on cigars as trade shifts.
Fashion writer surveys City styles with house coats of easy make and comfort, noting fabrics from crepe de chine and Ninon to Liberty silks and tulle. Blue tones lead, while the potato sack directoire skirt garners attention for its straight cut and attic square train. plain tailored shirt waists with box-pleated tucks stay in demand for late summer to early fall.
Describes a Directoire over waist in black taffeta with girdle and sash, shawl collars, and jeweled buttons. Details on coat construction with roll-over collar, two-part sleeves, and material counts for medium sizes. Also notes embossed satin waistcoats in vivid colors and ongoing pearl earring styles with ba roque motifs.
Deputy H J Pritchard seized six elk heads shipped from Wyoming found at Salt Lake and with a taxidermist A B Colburn in city possession. Heads allegedly came from Wyoming and were tagged improperly or tagless upon receipt, investigation pending with Wyoming officials to determine unlawful removal.
A Metro politan writer assembles land speed records across vehicles and animals. Electric locomotive 27 seconds for a mile in 1903 versus automobile 234? seconds in 1908 show minor gaps, steam locomotive 32 seconds in 1893, and various human and animal speeds up to walking and running. The piece notes locomotives and autos may improve further while horses and foot races reflect ongoing strides in performance and breeding.
Emil Seidler and Ralph Schulman east side youths were fined ten dollars each by Magistrate Cornell in Essex Market Court for waving red flags at a Socialist meeting on Grand and Orchard streets. The judge warned against flag waving and cited it as a relic of barbarism while noting the inability of both prisoners to pay the fine.
A famed novelist touring Lancashire tries to ask an old man for Fleetwood distance. The man, unable to read, replies with a gruff, humorous line about milestones and “there's nowt on it,” highlighting a simple exchange about literacy and local travel.
Surveyors for Southern Pacific lay out lines for a seven mile tunnel through the Sierra crest to relieve the overland route from its steep grades that now require two engines to haul ordinary trains.
Three brothers Marshall Edward and James Stine were lynched near Tiptonville after being arrested for killing Special Deputy Sheriff Richard Burruss and wounding Deputy John Hall. A mob surrounded the courthouse and seized the suspects as authorities failed to keep order, with a swamp capture marking the end of the attempted legal process. The incident occurred at dawn on Sunday, amid a heavy presence of citizens and troops.
Miss Mary Lane Mod died unexpectedly at night after a startled scene with a cat and piano. Witnesses say she felt a heart pain just before collapsing. doctors attribute it to valvular heart trouble likely worsened by fright.
Chicago obituary notes the death of Jacob Beilhart, leader of the Spirit Fruit movement at Wooster Lake. As founder of about a dozen colonies, he dispensed with formal marriage rites at his Spirit Fruit Farm, which houses twelve residents on 300 acres. Death followed an appendix operation.
The Ways and Means Committee plans to summon Andrew Carnegie to present his views on tariff policy. Prompted by Carnegie's magazine article supporting protective tariffs for the steel industry, committee members intend to press the Laird of Skibo for his stance.
At the Texas Baptist General Convention in Fort Worth $10000 of the needed $300000 was raised in an hour for the Dallas Baptist sanitarium. Dallas man C D Slaughter gave $50000. It is announced that John D Rockefeller has promised the remaining $150000.
Judge Reed fines crew of the Japanese steamer King Maru for seal poaching. Total penalty $36,400, equivalent to $300 per convict. The Japanese will appeal.
The Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs adds letter telegrams for night telegraph delivery in France at one fifth of a cent per word, with next morning delivery. Oklahoma High Court upholds prohibition law as constitutional.
Newsy items note the gathering of the first American Catholic Missionary Congress in Chicago. Plans for the tercentennial discovery of Lake Champlain are announced at Burlington, Vermont. The Tribuna in Rome calls for confirmation or denial of the Duke of the Abrasain engagement with Miss Elkins. Count Hossen-Haseler, head of the German Military Cabinet, dies before Emperor William at Donaueschingen.
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