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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
7
The piece compares the snowshoe hare to a snow drift born creature. It notes nature’s varied strategies for snow survival from hibernation to food storage and describes the snowshoe hare as a swift surface skimmer with seasonal color change. It mentions the hare’s two color seasons and its alternate name vary ing hare.
A French savant describes an easy test to mislead sense of touch. Rub a silver dollar to warm it, then place it on the forehead after cooling the other in the hand. The warm coin feels heavier, showing temperature affects perceived weight and pressure cues.
The Southern Shorthand and Business University in Atlanta Ga offers 145 scholarships worth 50 each for residents of Georgia. Contestants must submit county name lists and bring one additional pupil to enter by January 15 1908. More pupils earned equals cash commissions and half tuition for others.
A writer from Forest and Stream describes a gray foxlike gray squirrel along a fence. The creature eyes oncoming observers from the top rail, zigzags between rails, digs for buried nuts, and feigns calm before slipping to the woods. The piece portrays alert, cautious behavior.
The tale follows Mr Webster and his client en route to Philadelphia for patent trial evidence while the attorney fixates on Philadelphia brandy. A separate report notes a Brookdale redwood blowdown in Santa Cruz County aged over 339 years with a woodpecker nest hole and a rare huckleberry plant growing inside the hollow.
A Ruskin quotation extols rural life as a yearly cycle of spring and fall with duties, prudence, and hopeful labor. It celebrates laborer’s wholesome passions, domestic companionship, animal care, and the disciplined wisdom gained from seedtime and winter’s pace.
An elderly Vermont man nicknamed Ab Drake reflects on his late wife and memories of their troubled marriage. He remarks that he once planned to express affection but felt it unsafe to praise her, revealing a mix of affection and restraint behind a life of control.
A fragment from London describes a courtship tale where a lord’s bluster and a warning cornered bystanders lead to a cast vote. The result leaves the bachelor unchanged and the group of women united in refusing the match, ending the friendship.
A note from the St. Louis Republic imagines George Washington answering a question about cherry trees. He would not cut trees but would cut salaries of politicians and appropriation bills if he were alive. The quote reflects satire on political spending and fiscal policy.
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