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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
2
A Success Magazine piece critiques boards for passive governance where directors rarely direct. It describes executives drafting papers, directors voting as instructed, attending endless meetings, and collecting fees without deep knowledge of company operations. A famed professional director with fifty three boards exemplifies reliance on brief reports and chairmen’s word.
The piece notes a recent bank run caused by gamblers posing as bankers, triggering a financial panic with no real cause amid prosperity. It argues the panic was engineered to profit, while overall business conditions, employment, and demand remained strong and bank clearings rose from 1906 levels.
A reflection from The Atlantic on urban life where a man can only buy and eat canned squash. The piece contrasts storage, gardening, and home cooking with the commercial preservation of flavor, noting that canned squash may resemble other produce yet remains a pie of tin. It laments urban life reducing taste to tin and commerce.
Taturns is described as a Negro town in northwestern Carter County Oklahoma with zero white or Indian residents. The community has Black preachers teachers sawmillers cotton ginners merchants and some capitalists, all of whom are Black.
Clever Danish inventor Vladimar Poulsen, aged 38, son of a Copenhagen high criminal court judge, connects wireless telephone between Lyngby and Welsensee a distance of 250 miles.
A chaotic digest reports Isaac Brown slain amid Brown Mitchell clash on the Perder river Kentucky while Bob Brown and Will Mitchell are gravely wounded. Charles Ferrilliat of Merchants National Bank New Orleans shoots himself over suspected accounting shortfalls. Journalist Charles Matthias dies by own hand in Hot Springs Ark after nervous troubles. Sabinio Mallilo kills Alfred Bechinois in Jersey City over jealousy. A New York tenement fire roasts a child and injures others. Massachusetts Democrats back Bryan without instruction. Five men drown near Plum Island Massachusetts. Mrs Elma Rottgren of Chicago abandons her two children from a window. Chicago streetcar men vote to strike unless dues are paid. Actor James Taylor dies in Roanoke aged 71. Gussoni & Co bankrupt in New Orleans with debts far exceeding assets. Episcopal Church clubs condemn divorce and remarriage at St Louis. West Virginia Democrats favor Bryan. New York tunnels near completion for Penn Railroad. Kentucky Republicans pledge Taft support. Utah Republicans favor Roosevelt then Taft. Panama canal zone enacts rodent control against plague. Alexandria fires $50,000 incendiary blaze. Pocahontas monument bill advances in Congress. Ralph becomes director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Porto Rico infantry placed on permanent basis. new navigation aids authorized. Government crop statistics protections bill advances in House.
A New York World tip recommends placing a long strip of newspaper under delicate fabric when sewing on a machine. This helps prevent puckering and snags and keeps bias seams from stretching during stitching.
A French criminal court condemns a butcher to one year in prison a 100 dollar fine and 600 dollars damages for supplying unsound meat to the army. In Madrid the Prince of Asturias birthday is commemorated May 10 1907. King Alfonso pardons three anarchists jailed for the assassination attempt on the royal couple.
A terse remark notes that Cordelia rejects footnotes produced by using a shoe horn. It emphasizes a practical stance against this method and hints at a humorous or skeptical undertone in the discussion.
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