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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1908
Page
4
Local notice reports Durham will hold a fiddlers convention on the eighth of the month. Many musicians are expected to participate and the event is described as very interesting.
Aberdeen reports two events of special interest to residents as covered by the Observer. Details forthcoming as information becomes available.
The Department of Education has ordered a large library now cataloguing for student use. It features a broad history of education from ancient to modern times, including Asiatic, European, and American education. A complete set of educational classics, philosophy, psychology, teaching science, and classroom methods will be available to Trinity College students and teachers in Durham.
The letter describes a student at Fayetteville, visiting parents and friends, boasting of drilled drills and uniforms, yet expressing homesickness and longing for a sweetheart. It notes a lack of fun since leaving, and ends with a promise to keep the letter private between the writer and the recipient.
The blustering lawyer presses for how the verdict was reached after his client’s acquittal. The storyman replies that if the defendant were guilty he would not have hired the lawyer, implying the acquittal was earned.
Effective January 5 1908 Seaboard timetable updates introduce the Florida Limited between New York and St Augustine with origin Durham connections. No 238 departs 10 05 AM linking to No 38 at Portsmouth Norfolk and Weldon with A L for Eastern Carolina, connecting to steamship lines to Baltimore and other ports. Other arrivals and connections updated. timetable inquiries directed to W Woodward or R L Montgomery.
A Sunday school teacher explains the parable of the man who fell among thieves to a Scottish class. A boy jokes that the priest and Levite knew he had been rabbit already while comments on tea and gout follow, urging weak fresh brew and green vegetables.
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