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Newspaper
Abbeville Press And Banner
Location
Abbeville, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1908
Page
6
Posthumous publication notes the fragmentary verse by Richard Haver. The text laments betrayal and denial while asserting enduring beauty and inner torment. Published by Pulnant’s, it marks the author’s first appearance after death.
An Augustrinian boy talks of swimming holes and dives at Stump Hole Mud Hole and Band Pit while recounting lessons learned from peers. He describes fear, skill growth, alligators play, and plans to swim again despite rain and nerves, ending with school-age duties and education.
A 2000 man camp at Catal ia faced famine as weeks of unprecedented Alaskan coast weather halted relief efforts. Captain Alfred St Olson aboard the Bertha landed 80 tons of canned goods and potatoes near Catalia after battling hurricane winds, snow, and mountainous seas. The Saratoga earlier failed to reach the camp, and Bertha’s crew did not go ashore while unloading to lighters. Tacoma World correspondence reports.
A Federal employee recalls his son at President Roosevelts visit in Indianapolis. The boy watched police keeping crowds back from the parade route and asked if the policeman pinched the man, reflecting on literal understanding of remarks amid the tense scene.
The Canaries send an envoy to the Galula governor to protest long speeches. The governor arrives with sacks and declares one sack empty and orders the rest filled with meat. He rebukes the ambassador for unnecessary talk and promises to avoid lengthy discourse in the future.
The passage extols that the power of money rests on intellect and initiative. It contrasts feeding the body with feeding the mind, stating ability ambition and honesty create value. It asserts a worker earns his own price when he performs well and commands payment. It likens growth to beauty and learning to brain development.
A Nation Faces Lower Birth Rates and rising marriages and divorces, with warnings that continued trends could lead to France’s population disappearing. A note from Country Life cites concern over demographic health. A circus in France even set up a phone line for ticket orders.
In New York City fashion guidance highlights waist designs with chemisette effects suited to wool fabrics, satin, and muslin. Describes gloves, veils, passementerie trims, hat plumes, boas, and shirt raffles on skirts, noting suitability for light, tall figures and recent shifts in skirt shaping.
The article details fabric requirements for a medium garment size three yards twenty-one, two and three eighths yards, twenty-seven and five eighths yards forty-four inches wide, plus five-eighth yard silk for trims. It notes hat pins with fur hat accents, and describes warm, practical mohair, serge, or flannel options and elasticated bloomers with knee elastic for a ten year size.
Rose rosettes are back for hat trims and tress accents and are easier to manufacture than real rosettes. The bias-cut material is folded around itself from the center to form the size, using silk satin gauze or chiffon. They enhance waist drapery hold lace fringe and finish ribbon ends on evening fracks.
The piece notes a shift away from tailor made garments citing a scarcity of tailors. It contrasts tailor made suits with uffy balf and dressy cloth styles, suggesting the traditional tailor craft now seems old fashioned in current fashion discourse.
A French chateau description centers on a fine old house with a central core and two wings, three drawing rooms, a library, and a billiard room. The ground floor includes a large glass-filled drawing room opening to a lawn and a long gallery. details note caloriferes, a planted summer interior, and a serene, austere life for a small resident party with the proprietor and his wife.
A comically dated epigraph recounts a bus incident where an elderly man falls into a vent while alighting as the bus moves. The conductor and onlookers witness the mishap as the injured man chases the bus, demanding the driver stop after the fall.
A man considering starting his own business rejected two friends suggestions of desirable neighborhoods. He has passed through those streets often and observed frequent shop name changes. He concludes that places with steady trade matter, not short stay neighborhoods.
Peace Loving Kansas notes Grant County held its first jury trial in ten years last week over a minor damage suit. The editorial laments lack of criminal or civil actions, praises strict prohibition enforcement, and argues Western Kansas courts are overburdened with few jails and inactive inmate turnover.
A collection of kitchen notes detailing Sponge Drops with meringue, a potato bacon salad, broiled oysters coated in crumbs, Honey Nut Sandwiches with walnuts and almonds, Opera creams made from fudge, and a Pasadena style candy. Recipes cite New Haven Regis ter New York World Pittsburg Dispatch as sources.
A garbled set of household tips covers cleaning furniture with chamios dampened in water and oils, boosting lamp light with camphor, dusting with velvet, and preserving floors and carpets. It advises washing, fire care, and fabric care steps with various substances and improvised methods.
A garbled excerpt references football and college talk, noting a sunset hose and worn trousers, with an implied scene of someone departing for college or a game, all conveyed in a clipped Louisville Courier Journal style. The readable text is fragmentary and non-specific.
A collage of witty quips and light banter from 19th and early 20th century papers. It parries jokes about actors, critics, shopping, and everyday life with brisk, punchy humor. It cites remarks on acting ages, audience reactions, crowds, and barter exchanges with playful misunderstandings and wordplay.
Mr Claiborn owner of cider and vinegar works and sorghum factory east of town laments fruit failure. He says elder and sorghum mill shut down for the year with only grain operation. On his Salem Township farm renter reports his share of apples grown will be four, to be delivered or fetched.
A bashful Stotesbury suitor proposed to his girl via a wax phonograph message. The fiancée, startled and displeased, sent a note back via her younger brother inviting him to speak in person, mocking the idea of being kissed by a machine.
London Mail describes life preserver seats aboard steamers off the stagfish coast. The simple design uses light wooden hinges and a piece of wood to hold a seat that can be opened to form a buoyant raft for passengers if wreck occurs.
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