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Newspaper
Abbeville Press And Banner
Location
Abbeville, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1908
Page
7
A partial, archaic poem extols the evergreen pine as a symbol of strength and divine purpose. It praises its beauty in all seasons, its usefulness from masts to ships, and invites trust in the God of the pine, with lines attributed to Sak Willis Linn and Christian Rey.
A Chicago News dialogue captures a tobacco-stained man debating style and practicality over luxury. He dismisses fancy tableware and fashion, arguing a home should prioritize warmth and comfort with simple, sturdy furnishings. The talk touches on marriage, money, and urban life.
A Washington Star excerpt contrasts two voices on a dog with a new muzzle. The timid citizen says the dog acts mad while the precise speaker retorts the animal is not mad, only indignant.
The article outlines three plausible hailstone origins: a snowball nucleus forming from early freezing with trapped compressed air. a liquid water drop nucleus with dissolved air expelled during freezing creating a central bubble. or pure water ice forming a snowy center with no enclosed air, implying a vapor-filled core. It discusses polarized light to study crystal structure and suggests calorimetric methods to estimate interior temperatures, noting a surface temp similar to surrounding air but a colder interior reflecting nucleus formation.
German physician Dr Hirsch Field computed Berlin alcohol intake showing 12 892 drinking shops plus 301 wine shops three years ago. Berliners consumed 425 929 532 liters beer 24 704 525 liters brandy and 19 956 062 wine annually, averaging 226 percent liters per person at 100 marks per unit. Berliner income around 683 marks implies one seventh spent on intoxicants.
An Atlanta clergyman recalls Joel Chandler Harris noting the universal desire for free publicity from editors and doctors. Lance recounts an editor jailed ten days for striking the mayor, the warden bidding farewell with humor. Also mentions Shantung provincial government building a telegraph line along the Yellow River to improve service and issue food warnings.
Miss Maude Miner, probation officer, spoke at the School of Philanthropy about prostitution in New York tenements and the cadet system. She described why girls stay in the life, the difficulty of obtaining testimony, and urged harsher confinement to deter entry. She highlighted the widespread role of men in sustaining cadets and the need to reform the system to protect vulnerable girls.
A New York Tribune excerpt praises a woman of Miss Miner’s abilities who will address the social evil by informing the public about its realities. The piece links mental deficiency, untrained girls, low wages, and housing to the spread of disease and vice, warning of the dangers to society and unborn children.
The article praises Aboriginal and South Sea Islander fishermen for dexterity using slender hard wood spears. It describes standing on rocks, watching clear water, and thrusting spears into large fish at thirty feet, then wading or swimming ashore with the catch. The tone reflects admiration for instinct and practiced skill.
A Virginia boundary shift moved a NC area to Virginia. In a tumble-down cabin an old Black woman jokes that the Virginia climate is a cheaper health cure than North Carolina. The anecdote ends with a humorous quip about the climate being a health aid.
A Quebec correspondent notes The Prince of Wales reads his address in a colorless voice and appears nervous in uniform. Separately, Mrs. Black sues for divorce in Circuit Court, alleging cruel treatment after a remarriage she says was meant to spite her. A humorous Chicago Inter glimpses at marital motives and legal costs.
A cookery fragment cites two recipes from the New York Press. One details kidneys cooked in a cold fry pan with butter on toast, served hot as an excellent method. The other describes trout a l Italienne baked briefly with shallots parsley brown sauce and nutmeg, finished by basting and serving.
The Washington Star suggests making a hearty venison stew from cheaper cuts. Fry small pieces in fat until browned, add flour and onions, garlic, then simmer in hot water until tender about an hour. Finish with meat sauce or lemon zest and serve with currant or wild grape jelly and corn bread.
Directions from the New York Press describe preparing eel and haddock fillets with a bread crumb parsley stuffing. Pieces are seasoned, stuffed, rolled in flour and crumbs, fried in hot fat to a golden color, then drained and served with hot brown paper sauce and fried parsley garnish.
A scanned note extols lemons as a versatile home remedy and household aid. It covers ingesting lemon juice to aid digestion and prevent scurvy, applying juice to hair and scalp, soothing headaches, and relieving insect stings. It also notes essential oil from rind for flavoring and perfumery, whitening teeth with lemon juice, and other culinary and cleaning uses.
A Philadelphia Press quip notes a wife’s shopping trip ending with exactly $22.19 spent. The exchange questions the certainty of the amount and reveals the joke hinges on the precise figure as a punchline.
A mosaic of brief items notes Colorado power projects for 150000 horsepower, a $4 million daily cost to reach New York, Chicago bartenders forming a Total Abstinence Society, and misnamed Sherman relatives. It cites Japanese and Chinese production, Pat Bane as a Civil War giant, longshoreman labor needs, U S railroad mileage, soap film thickness, a Washington Pa incident, cost of living contrasts between Britain and the U S, Jefferson’s July 4 birth and death, French doctors forbidden inheritance, Vienna mine control, and municipal gas plant coal concerns.
A New York Sun vignette notes each railroad storeroom stores hundreds of umbrellas left by passengers. One forgetful traveler recovered her umbrella when she cried out as the train pulled away, while others are not so lucky and many umbrellas end up in the test department yearly.
A local report notes an epidemic of dogs killing themselves by their own actions as muzzles provoke reactions. Pets escape restraints, some hang from fences, others are saved only after owners intervene. The Clayton notes describe multiple incidents, including a hound at a hotel barn and another hound under a fence rescue.
Jeremiah Berger sixty a powder worker for Du Pont Powder Company and tied at Henry Clay is at Delaware Hospital with a broken arm after a vigorous handshake with Patrick Dougherty hotel proprietor they had not met for months. Berger says he will be careful whom he shakes hands with in the future.
A garbled fable piece features a cow, hen and poodle in a rustic dialogue with a hired man. The talking animals discuss fate and practice while a musician narrator hints at morale and routine tasks, all amid a fragmentary Chronicle style.
An assortment of jokes and humorous exchanges from classic newspaper quotes. The fusillade includes remarks on wealth blue laws theater audiences moonshine and marriage missteps, with lines from Philadelphia Washington Louisville Chicago Cleveland Baltimore and Baltimore papers reflecting light social humor of the era.
London dispatch reports Alexander A. Eberson and clients who own Indian Territory gas wells envision laying pipe from Oklahoma to Europe as a future power source. Eberson calls it embryonic but suggests possible connections to London Paris and Berlin with Oklahoma gas fueling trolley carts and workshops abroad.
A Yankee tourist quips about the light draught ships used on Scottish flyders saying they cross meadows after dew. The captain, a sharp Scotsman, confirms the joke noting they sometimes send a man ahead with watering cans to wet the meadow to ease passage.
A child asks what he will wear to button his pants when only his soul goes to Heaven. Delineator notes the homely, faith faced query. Manhattan is described as the world’s most densely populated island, housing 99,208 people per square mile.
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