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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
6
Discussion on how public libraries should choose books highlights dangers of praising weak works. Librarians urge against funding only popular fiction, favoring quality reads and restraint. The piece also notes a long pending Rome case from 1870 involving two boys and a pistol, with potential resolution for the older accused.
The article notes new ships under construction reaching 1,000 feet in length and 60,000 tons displacement, vastly surpassing Lusitania and Mauretania. It compares them to historic fleets like Spain’s Armada and highlights advances in naval construction and power. It also touches on culinary temperature cautions and Dr. Cook’s polar expedition updates.
The piece argues that railways already connect most human settlements and will dominate transport as capital costs rise. It questions the practicality of air navigation, noting winds and instability, and says air travel remains unreliable, expensive, and largely unnecessary compared to ground and sea routes. It downplays futuristic airship promises as few and unimportant exceptions.
The Chinese Emperor Kuang Hsu died Saturday after a prolonged illness. Dowager Empress Taze Hel An followed him in death Sunday. Prince Pu Yi, three years old, is named heir and placed on the throne, with mourning declared for three years and provincial administrations to continue.
At the twenty eighth annual AFL convention in Denver, leaders including President Gompers call for a new Labor party to mobilize labor power. Delegates discuss organizing nationwide campaigns and fund protection amid looming legal challenges.
The government crop reports aid farmers by informing them about national conditions and prospects, while also countering false reports from speculators. Local buyers and reporters cannot replace the disinterested data these reports provide, which shape prices beyond local conditions.
Oscar Wilde advised dramatists to seek the audience’s ultimate verdict rather than the first-night crowd. The piece argues that new plays benefit from matinee previews to avoid biased critics and audiences, favoring a broader public judgment over traditional routine.
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, uncle to Emperor Nicholas, died in Paris on Saturday from pneumonia. He served as head of the navy for twenty four years retiring in 1903 after criticism of naval administration. Born in 1865 he visited the United States in 1872 including a buffalo hunt in Denver.
Plans outlined at the Colorado and Southern Railway directors meeting call for a new 62 mile road from Pueblo to Walsenburg Colorado and a connection from Welling to Cheyenne Wyoming as initial construction. An early extension from Orin Junction to Forsythe Montana on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul is planned. The line would, with the C M St P into Seattle, become a transcontinental route enabling through Galveston to Puget Sound trains via Denver.
President elect Taft said he would convene a special session of the Sixty first Congress to address tariff revision shortly after his inauguration. The plan follows his return to the White House after a day with President Roosevelt.
Governor Campbell issued a rigid quarantine proclamation effective the 16th covering smallpox yellow fever cholera typhoid fever bubonic plague and other communicable diseases in and out of Texas. The order marks a radical departure from prior state quarantines and aims to curb disease spread.
The Outlook editor may align with Roosevelt after his term, but ownership and stock are not controlled by James H. Stillman. Howland states Stillman owns under ten percent, while the White House says Roosevelt has no concern with stockholders, only policy.
Early Havana results show the Liberal Party winning decisively with 184 438 votes to 116 339 for General Maris of the Conservative party. The tally comes from 1 869 of the total districts reporting, pointing to a strong electoral mandate for Carrise Guba.
A dated poetic meditation describes prayer through nature and history. The speaker seeks a soul greater than past and present life, drawing energy from the earth, plants, animals, and human achievement to surpass the cosmos.
J. H. Henderson of Hopkinton New York 80 recounts a three year struggle with bleeding piles and eczema. After trials and costs he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills and syringe treatments to reach a fairly healthy state.
Mark Twain and friends visit a young sculptor's studio and praise a statue of a young woman calling up her hair. Twain remains silent then remarks it is beautiful but not true to nature. The group asks for reasons and Twain quips that she should have her mouth full of hairpins.
A teacher asks a primary pupil to name a graceful horned animal hunted in autumn. The child replies with a joke about what his father calls his mother when he returns home. The exchange ends with a pun about Betsy and a plaguing wife.
A historical notice questions a belief that deafness is curable and suggests ear tube inflation as a remedy. It warns lasting hearing loss could occur from improper treatments and hints at staged or fraudulent pills sold by Cheney & Co and Toleta Od.
In a droll exchange from London Opinion, Percy dreams Edith accepts him, she reveals the omen means a marriage, and he presses for when they might wed as she hints at another dream to confirm.
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