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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1906
Page
4
President Eliot favors continuing football at Harvard under new titles after seeing the Carlisle Indians game. The description notes his support follows his firsthand view of the Carlisle team and its style of play.
The Wake County NC Cotton Growers Association backs a plan to collect monthly ginning statistics from ginners to compare with federal reports. The plan would have state and national clerks compile totals for U S Agriculture and notify county farmers’ leaders. Also noted are courthouse vault upgrades, jail expansion progress, election canvass totals, and a governor ordered special term of Alamance county superior court for December 17 in a high profile murder-related case.
A Philadelphia North American note recounts a Michigan tale about Judge B, a non lawyer county judge, ruling that a defendant may open a case. The plaintiff objects, the judge insists the decision stands, and the defendant delays while the plaintiff awaits action, a humorous account of legal quirks.
During a night service at St Pauls Bristow Biland the preacher on the prodigal son invites questions. A man seated in the aisle interrupts aloud admitting he is drunk provoking an electric reaction before the minister silences him and continues the sermon.
A young medical student recalls a Strand Magazine anecdote about a professor renowned as an eminent surgeon. A patient with a crushed leg faced amputation but the surgeon saved the leg by splinting and correcting a mistaken excision, praised as wonderful skill.
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