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Newspaper
Abbeville Press And Banner
Location
Abbeville, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1908
Page
7
In a classical fragment, a tuneful bard recalls a time when the horned pipes breathed music that summoned fear and grace. The poet laments the loss of famed minstrels and Dido’s tomb, praising the old enchantments as Corinna and Sappho-inspired waves of harmony rise.
In a secluded New York river valley cabin two men, Charlie the merchant and Leslie the editor, await departure from the forest. They reflect on camp life and civilization as dawn nears, debating themes of time, memory, and human invention.
In a rugged dawn the editor and merchant mount a mountain road wagon, leaving wilderness splendor for a man made world. They linger on the river’s glow, fearing the return may never come, and hurry to catch the train to the forest and stream.
Historic Old Court House at Wellclose Square Stepney houses supposedly London’s oldest police cells. An underground passage to the Tower is blocked, with a skeleton at the entrance and cells containing manacles and a straitjacket. The place, now the German Oak Club, bears graffiti and inscriptions from 1751 to 1787, plus a chessboard floor and a poem.
Afraid of banks farmer Prank Marks of Berea Ohio converted all his money into gold coins and hid the metal under his pig pen. While he and his wife were in Cleveland a robber searched the house ripping mattresses and upholstery. The chief set fire to the barn and pen, and upon return he and friends by disguise drew a huge lump of gold. The coin had been melted by the heat.
Fassia Supplies Japan reports a contract in St Petersburg with the Japanese government for 300000 pods or 5806 tons of steam rails. Rails weigh twenty four pounds per foot and will be delivered at Port Dalay for Manchurian Railway needs. Tobacco cultivation under government supervision in Ireland shows potential, but results await marketing.
In central London near Marble Arch rises the Chapel of the Ascension a rest site without services or clergy. Financed by Mrs. Russell Gurney the art filled chapel houses about two hundred paintings by Predaric Shields illustrating scriptural narratives from creation to the Acts. The piece notes Shields rise from poverty to fame and the chapel’s completion in 1894 after initial difficulties. A separate item describes a North Dakota inventor’s cabinet for treating animals using jets of liquid solution through perforated pipes.
An elderly Matta lady, impoverished yet proud, still drives her venerable calesa to church. The antique vehicle and nurse ride amid memories of former grandeur, defying modern cars and defiant in the face of risk. The story highlights courage, tradition, and social decline.
A Tesan electrician and watchmaker built the world’s smallest electric motor used as a scalpel and powered by a tiny chloride of silver battery. European experiments use a submerged microphone to detect shoals of fish by tapping sounds as they pass.
Edmonton correspondent reports on the rare black fox prized by Russian nobility and hunters. About five pelts are taken annually from the Canadian North, with values ranging from 800 to 1500 dollars per pelt. Wealthy individuals buy, export, and even breed foxes in private preserves, hoping to control this coveted fur.
A garbled report references a Philadelphia man in Switzerland discussing police regulations described by Mr Tower. The dialogue mentions Muller’s drowning after going into a river. The scene involves Schmidt Krauss and a warning against swimming in the creek amid a river hazards discussion.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Press quotes a defendant’s lawyer reassuringly urging the jury to “buy the fellow’s data pull” while Lu ey claims they have enough pull to obtain prompt justice, prompting a skeptical reply about wanting swift outcomes.
A peculiar report from Lodsworth, England describes a pair of fobius that built a mess and hatched a family in the pocket of an old waistcoat left hanging on the wall of an unoccupied code.
A displaced narrator in heavy dialect riffs on wealth, social pressure, and danger after gaining money. The piece denounces rich elites and notes backlashes from people and a white doctor, with a mule kick episode and a warning about plutocrats. It preserves period voice and colorful character names while outlining social tension.
Four days ago poultry owner T L Clifford found a bullsnake coiled around two chickens in his yard. He killed the snake after striking its head, but the reptiles grip crushed the birds. The snake measured 3 1/2 to 4 feet. Later that week a large frog ate one broiler in a separate hen house incident. Clifford killed the frog.
A amused dialogue from a New York Times piece features a suitor, a small sister, and a comic dispute involving a rat hidden in a sister’s hair. The girl jokes that Tommy hid both the rat and her hair.
The report discusses fines and a ruling on machine output with夀 high line counts. It notes 2000 times could fit in a sheet of paper. It mentions an experiment to plant seaweed in the Beanstkill River, Pennsylvania, to alter drinking water used in Philadelphia.
A fragmented pseudocode style riddle blends math and mythic hints. It hints at numbers, operations, love, death, and life, with references to multiplication and division. The garbled text weaves in names and phrases suggesting a philosophical puzzle about existence and arithmetic.
A collage of quips from Philadelphia Public Ledger Life and Punch humor sections. Banter about stage robbers, chorus girls, burglars, talkative sleepers, bankers and bank exams, politicians as planes, and a Scots humorist. Light, era voices with punchy one liners and social jests.
A central plant of 8000 horsepower is planned amid the bituminous coal fields of Taduna. The system aims to distribute power directly from the mine mouth to about Indianapolis, roughly 100 miles away. Transmission losses may raise coal use by ten percent, but overall savings are projected to exceed these costs.
The Philadelphia Record reports a belief among old residents that a kiss from a colored man can cure or prevent whooping cough. Charles Miller, a kindly elderly Black man, treats many white babies daily, reportedly kissing over thirty last week without charging. Miller says he loves the babies and is willing to kiss as many as brought to him.
Prof Berthold of Vis enna argues that intelligence and honesty grow with body size. He claims a stout man is generally more intelligent than a thinner man. The Kansas City Journal notes a global rise in female pupils since 1890.
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