Free scholarships offered by Southern Shorthand Uni Atlanta GA
The Southern Shorthand and Business University in Atlanta announces 145 $50 tuition scholarships to Georgia residents for January 1908. Contestants must submit county lists of names and bring one paying pupil to qualify. additional pupils earn commissions. More details from A. C Briscoe and L. W. Arnold, Atlanta.
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South
The
Southern Shorthand and Business University
Atlanta
State of
Georgia
Atlanta School of Telegraphy
Tate
Southern Shorthead and Business University
Rsm
Evey County
A. C Briscoe
L. W. Arnold
Atlanta Ga
Atlantic Coast Line
T. C. White
W. J. Craig
Wilmington
N.C
Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Reveals Early Arithmetic Skills
A 1700 B C papyrus unearthed in Egypt shows advanced arithmetic knowledge with addition and multiplication handling whole units and fractions. It includes problems on distributing barley, sevenfold cat and mouse chains, area calculations, circle to square transformations, and cubic measurements of pyramids.
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Egypt
Moses
Short Interview With Robert Louis Stevenson Visit
A Woman Reporter visits Robert Louis Stevenson in San Francisco but is refused a full interview due to his illness. She offers a brief note and is granted two minutes. Stevenson, white and frail, works on a woolen stocking and asks if she knits before the moment ends.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
San Francisco
California
Stevenson
Dog Jealousy and Curious Canine Behavior
A Birmingham family story details a jealous dog once beloved who shows no outward aggression toward a new baby. The infant cries whenever the dog sits with it, and a peek through a keyhole reveals the dog rubbing its cold nose along the baby's back near the fire.
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Birmingham
Ralph Neville
Og Magazine
Unclear Dialogue Fragments From Baltimore and London Sketch
The text presents brief, quoted lines showing cultural clashes and humor. It includes Uncle Mose describing himself as a Baptis and unsociable, a Scotsman addressing respect for a country, and a general reflection on travel and beauty. The snippets mix dialect and quotation marks without a single narrative thread.
Tea cup fortunes and scientific truth musings
A mixed excerpt presents an old tea leaf reading ritual with rhymed fortune lines, then shifts to satirical notes on scientific truth. It cites a teacup fortune poem and contrasts it with lines from G. K. Chesterton about doctors, pork, port, sea air, and growth in bed, all within a single clipping.
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Swain
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrated London News
Cruelty of Mahouts and Grape Growing Spectacle
Excerpt notes cruelty of mahouts toward elephants with a forehead sore explained as cause of obedience. It also describes a Belgian glasshouse grape production near Brussels, supplying winter fruit to London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, St Petersburg and New York with weekly shipments.
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Belgium
London Globe
Hoerlaert
Brussels
Peta
London
Paris
Riviera
Vienna
Berlin
St Petersburg
Mirabile
New York
Sre
United States
Nione
Practical Sympathy from Editor to Doctor
Dr Edward Everett Hale urged a New England editor to visit his ailing wife. Hale then wrote enough editorial manuscripts to supply the paper for a week, urging the editor to go to his wife and attend to family health over work.
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Edward Everett Hale
New England
Hale
Sermon Stopped a Runaway Horse for Canterbury Archbishop
The story recalls Archbishop of Canterbury delivering a sermon to calm a frightened horse charging his carriage on Holloway Hill. He flung the sermon at the animal, causing it to veer and pause. The driver regained control and the bishop continued. He quipped that the sermon may not aid the congregation but its size proved considerable.
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Morse
All of Canterbury
Holloway Hill
York
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