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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1908
Page
3
A Detroit News-Tribune article imagines life on Jupiter and its moons. It describes fierce equatorial winds, rapid rotation, potential Jovian inhabitants, tall stature, floating cities, and long lifespans, with light from moons and varied colors illuminating their night.
Queen Council No 100 meets on the first and third Thursday evenings each month with TE We. Enos serving as President and HA. Wood as Secretary in attendance and conducting.
The Narragansett Tribe No 169 holds weekly Wednesday night meetings at 7 30 p m and monthly Monday sessions in the Odd Fellows hall. Officers include F OT Carey Sachem Malcolmt Sapp and Chief of Records Dawson with Slater presiding and social sessions scheduled for the second Friday each month.
A Chicago merchant, nearly penniless, donated a $5,000 church organ to secure capital for a new business. The bluff attracted investors as ministers and congregants spread the tale, enabling him to raise funds and launch his company. He repaid the organ and grew rapidly, later able to fund further gifts.
A Baltimore American traveler recounts Morelia Michoacan where gentlemen rush to offer seats to women on streetcars. He notes a gubernatorial decree punishing men who keep seats, seeking to avoid public police branding for lack of gentility and praises local politeness.
A philanthropic visitor to a Glasgow slum asks a poor wife if she has read Burns. The wife lifts her arm to show a red burn mark from the steam of boiling water and quips that a burn always stays red after such a morning.
The scene shows a comforting exchange as a woman fears a fallen substance on a coat while a man named Charlie reassures her that it will brush off. Their dialogue conveys concern and affection in a tense moment from the Somerville Journal.
A wry note from the era describes how a character named Tramp-Or continues work after feeding, emphasizing perseverance despite an empty stomach and a full appetite. The tone blends humor with daily labor reality.
A humorous exchange about speed of speaking to a seatmate. The traveler asks how fast he should speak to the girl, and the companion replies in jokey terms that he should move at about a smile a minute.
The article notes that the United States and Great Britain are the only two flags to have the sun shining on them throughout different parts of the year. It explains that from March 22 to September 22 the sun never sets on the American flag, while the British flag is sunlit year round. It cites calculations by the United States Naval Observatory including Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, with Porto Rico at 65 12 W and Balabobo Island in the Philippines at 116 40 E as opposite points. It states that March 22 and September 22 mark north declination, when Porto Rico rises with Balobe’s sunset.
A Chicago Record-Herald excerpt shows a young man removing cloars from his vest pocket and offering them to a girl aboard a plane. She rejects him, saying he has loved before, in a tense moment of cold rebuke.
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