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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1907
Page
2
An editorial brief discusses gun safety among youths, the responsibility of adults, and potential consequences of stricter laws. It laments inefficiencies in city planning and sewerage lawsuits, notes an upcoming hanging, and critiques legislative petition practices and representative choices.
Cotton prices and notices on page three. Clifton Mangum leaves for Ennis Texas for a new job this week. C E King & Sons ad change on page four about seeds. Durham Water Co. now in new quarters. Manning bill allowing a $300000 Durham county bond passed become law. Architect reviews plans for a new hospital set for early spring. Gen J S Carr donates books to Durham Public Library. R B Boone family moves to Pawhuska Oklahoma. Baxter Boone stays to finalize business.
The speaker notes tax dodging by wealthy individuals like W. K. Vanderbilt and warns that a similar accusation against an ordinary Durham resident would provoke editorials and potential public apologies.
The story tells how Henry Burch, once janitor at Trinity Methodist Church, recalled a thunderstorm during a minister's sermon. The minister admitted a similar storm occurred years earlier when he preached the same sermon. The anecdote appears in the Oil City Blizzard.
A curious Japanese custom known as dolls day or festival of the dolls unfolds each April. Women dress in various attire, mothers decorate the family room with pyol ore, and girls dress their dolls in Sunday clothes and arrange them along the walls. An afternoon feast is prepared for the dolls while adults dine in the evening, a tradition claimed to be unique to Japan.
A 1907 commentary explains Noah's ark tale as a model of faith amid widespread ungodliness. It links Noah’s obedience, the flood, and the ark to covenant themes, atonement ideas, and the need to remain sheltered in God’s plan.
The Journalist argues that undergraduate journalism binds campus life to the larger world. College papers mirror the daily press in shaping student views literature and life, acting as a state in miniature and contributing to national culture.
Schedule excerpt effective November 25 1906 shows daily westbound trains from Lynchburg at 2 30 pm including Roanoke to Knoxville sleeper and calls at Roxboro Denniston S t Boston Houston and Lynchburg. Eastbound service departs 3 35 pm daily toward Farmville Richmond Petersburg Norfolk with parlor car.
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