City Visitors and Travelers List in Personal Paragraphs
A stream of residents and visitors are noted in the city listings, including A. Steel of Coeburn R. T. Bowen to Roanoke and A. M. Sutton of Princeton. Others: H. H. Sayers Northfork Walter Gordon Oakvale Philip Goodwill Bramwell Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Taylor Williamson and more visiting or passing through yesterday or last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Sutton
Princeton
H. H. Sayers
Northfork
Walter Gordon
Oakvale
Bluefield
Philip Goodwill
Bramwell
City
George B. Craft
Dora Craft
Coaldale
T. H. Adams
Lynchburg
Thomas Cooper
Cooper
Salem, Va
Butler and Professor exchange in kitchen farce
A comic exchange unfolds as a burglar enters the kitchen prompting the Butler to announce the intruder while the Professor, distracted, asks him to repeat himself. The scene plays on miscommunication and timing in a domestic setting.
Trials of Writers Highlight Grammar Dilemmas
Yale professor Lounsbury critiques English usage in Harper's Magazine. He defends using whose for inanimate referents and argues that singular pronouns with everybody are awkward. Jane Austen favored plural pronouns to avoid clumsy constructions. He sees no perfect solution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Professor Lounsbury
Yale
Lo Harper's Magazine
Lounsbury
Jane Austen
Hal Magen Festival Tale From Roumania Town
A strolling player recalls Hal magen in Roumania where 80 villages gather for an annual festival. Women, married or single, offer visitors wine and a kiss as part of the local custom celebrated with merriment and travel lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Louis Republic
Compulsory Education Echoes in Houston Post Phrase
The Houston Post quotes a speaker praising a student whom a veteran observer doubted for brightness yet lauds for his splendid education. The remark notes the student lost a leg and could not pursue athletics, so he focused on college study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston Post
Transnatiantic Vales Scene Lit By Distress and Kindness
A brief stage dialogue features a distressed posture and a courteous response as a man and a woman acknowledge each other. The exchange hints at social tension and polite restraint within a Transnatiantic setting.
Kennedy's Laxative Syrup and Sublette Barnes remedies
The notice promotes Kennedy's Laxative Syrup for gentle prompt relief of bowels inflammation and lists Sublette Barnes offerings including Head Cheese and Roquefort Cheese. It claims 1531 Kodo as a leading remedy for stomach disorders like dyspepsia heartburn sour stomach and belching and states both products are sold by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Not Merely Idling The Writer Resembling A Buoy
A publisher recalls a writer who seemed idle yet was truly striving. He compared himself to a man who wagered he could swim to a buoy, only to become stuck tarred to the buoy as the scene ends. The observer eventually discovers the snag and the delay is explained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Statement on human equality in Wallace’s Fortnightly Review
Alfred Russel Wallace argues in the Fortnightly Review that there is no proof the stone age men were mentally or morally inferior to modern humans. He asserts equality of intellect and character across eras, challenging racial and evolutionary assumptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Russel Wallace
Fortnightly
Curious Grace at Clifford's Inn Dinner Pranks
A London Chronicle report describes a bizarre postmeal ritual at Clifford's Inn where the Kentish mess, separate from the principal, slams loaves on the table in silence as a substitute for grace. The act, performed after the meal, marks a peculiar tradition among two distinct bodies within the society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford's Inn
Inns of Chancery
Cor
Loudon Chronicle
Thackeray Heroines in Pink Bonnets and Wit
A fragmented sketch notes Thackeray's habit of dressing notable female characters in pink bonnets. It mentions Becky Sharp, Ammetia, and Beatrix, then shifts to unrelated lines about Bohemian gossip and a Detroit Free Press quip. The passage ends with a French proverb about a generous confession disarming slaps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thackeray
Becky
Ametia
Beatrix Nine
Beauly Oy
Men of Earler Ages and Savage Intellectual Equality
The text argues that advances in science do not prove greater intellect over earlier humans. History and monuments show no clear moral or mental progress. Savages are not mentally inferior. as they are studied they resemble us, with complex language and social rules. Even Australian groups show noble character and similar inner nature, though less material progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alm
Instinct and Reason Distinguish Mind Faculties
The text defines instinct as mind faculties guiding adaptive actions without knowledge of means and ends, while reason uses knowledge of the relation between means and ends. It adds that the real difference between instinct and reason is unknown and probably unknowable. New York Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Americats
Death of E. B. Angel ER FP
E. B. Angel aged 68 died at his Gra ham home Tuesday night after a short pneumonia illness. Native of Richmond he moved to the area young, served in the Confederate Army, farmed in Giles county, and was sheriff there. Formerly a Northfork police officer and lifelong Christian. Funeral today at 2 at Pembroke. interment Lybrook cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angel
Graham
Mr. Angel
Richmond
Sarah Lowe
Monroe County
Nellie Snidow
Giles County
Credt
Northfork
Christian Church
Pembroke
Lybrook Cemetry
Official Call to Republican State Convention Parkersburg WV
Official notice directs the Republican state convention at Parkersburg Wood County on April 29 1908 to elect four delegates at large four alternates to the Chicago National Convention June 16 1908 and to nominate four Supreme Court of Appeals candidates plus conduct other business The convention will convene at 1 pm and includes county delegations apportioned by 1904 Roosevelt vote totals for each county
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
State Central Committee
Parkersburg
Wood
Chicago
United States
Supreme Court of Appeals of
Theodore Roosevelt
Deleg
Berkeley
Boomo
Isisservens Beree
Mfariok Lances Iscetanes
Calhoun
Ceessnecssere
Doddridge Oo
Payette
Sat Gee
Jackson
Jefferson
Kanawha
Lewis
jLinecoln
Logan
Marion
Marshall
MASON
Putnam
Sinvessio Lane
Raleigh
Dame Os
Randolph
Ritchie
Teesecees
Taylor
Aedcca Saat
Tucker
Wetzel
Wyoming
Republican State Committee
Clarksburg
Republican County Committee
H. C. Woodyard
Postoffice
Spencer
W. Va
Virgil L. Highland
Republican county convention notice 1908
Official notice of Republican county convention rules and delegate election process for West Virginia counties. Details include apportionment, ballot timing, certification of delegates, notice periods, and names H C Woodyard and Virgil L Highland as officials. February 3 1908 Spencer and Clarksburg offices.
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Pedigo’s
Panama
China
Shantung
Mr. Pedigo
Mrs. Browning
E. S. Pedigo
Princeton Ave
Follansbee
Bland Street
Belmont
D. B. Mastin
Prop
Cafe
P.M
J. F. Thompson, Mer
GlobeWernicke Elastic
A. Steel, of
Coeburn
R. T. Bowen
Roanoke
B. J. Wysor
A. A. Wysor
Tazewell
H. D. Hatfield
Eckman
J. R. Payne
Pocahontas
T. H. Lyon
Charles &. Fisher
Josephine Warden
Kimball
Kate Perkins
Isaac T. Mann
James Elwood Jones
Switchback
Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company
F. T. Hutson
Keystone
F. W. Atkinson
Lonnie Earley
Belspring
Ola Barry
B. 8. Higginbotham
Cora
Beulah Rader
Christiansburg
WHITE
Bluefield Normal & Business College
The
Daily Telegraph
Monsieur
Vales
Sublette
Barnes
Sublette & Barnes
Metroplitan Men
M. G. Whitlow Hardware Co
Bluefield, W. VA
Samuel Turk
Princeton Avenue
West Va
Pourty
Detroit Free Press
E. B. Angel
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