The Schooner Versus Square Riggers
James Q. McCurdy argues in Outing Magazine that fore and aft schooners outperform square riggers for modern cargo needs. Lower operating costs, wind efficiency, deck loading flexibility, and easier handling from deck or with steam power make schooners better suited to Pacific Northwest lumber trade and versatile loading and unloading.
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Pacific Northwest
James Q. McCurdy
Outing Magazine
Poker Lesson on Strangers Ends in Loss at Sea
A noted card sharp aboard a liner used a poker run to expose risk of playing with strangers. He claimed triumph with a straight flush and forced payment to the steward, declaring the exercise an object lesson.
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Queenstown
New York Tribune
Queer Marriages in Southern India Ceremony with Plantain Tree
In southern India a man who has lost two wives and seeks a third plans a formal marriage to a plantain tree. The tree is later cut down to symbolize the union. The third marriage is deemed inauspicious and may prompt him to seek a fourth marriage with a third woman.
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Southern
India
The Modern Version and Classic Quotations
A compact sketch surveys a quotation from the Washington Herald noting a boy earning a living and a quip about earning it. It contrasts a Mr Merger remark with Dr Johnsons blunt line on hypocrisy as a burden of vanity.
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Washington Herald
Real estate and business purchases offered in Dahlonega
Advertiser Manson Milier of Dahlonega Georgia offers to buy any kind of business or real estate at 46 price. The notice requests readers to send requirements to R F D No 8.
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Manson Milier
Dahlonega
North Georgia Agricultural College
G. R. Glenn
Fairmount Land Auction Promises Growth and Mountain Town Opportunity
Pioneer developers describe Fairmount as rich and rapidly growing after the L N line connects Atlanta to Cincinnati. The sale on May 20 1907 offers 200 unsold lots with terms one fifth cash and balance over five years at 8 percent. A free barbecue is planned on May 30 1907 to attract buyers and investors.
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Eph Strickland
White
Thomas Byrd
Milton Watts
Columbus Watts
van Watts
Rice Ramsaur
Miller Erwin
John Stanton
Solomon Fuller
Jim Collier
Obediah Taylor
John Patton
Dave Mahan
Mose Finley
George Jefferson
Thomas Hutcherson
John Johnson
Virginia
Carolinas
Tennessee
Salacoa
Atlanta
Cincinnati
Fairmount
North Georgia
M. Tate
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