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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1908
Page
2
A poem urges readers that achievement comes from sustained effort across fields. It declares battles for military prowess, statecraft, lyric mastery, scholarly savant work, and spiritual discipline require daily toil from dawn to night until success is earned. It ends by stressing that many deeds and races must be run to reach the final goal.
A couple visits a dimly lit Bohemian dining room run by a patriarchal proprietor. Exiled artists, Italian spouses, and South American officials mingle over polenta, veal, and lively debate. The girl seeks authentic Bohemia, while her companion Hal wavers, ending with a playful warning about repeating the outing.
The British attache at Pekin reports Manchuria lacks a unified currency. Southern and northern South Manchurian Railway areas use small silver coins at a nearly twenty percent discount. Silver dollars are scarce. Yokohama and Russo-Chinese Bank dollars trade at small discounts. The railway only accepts gold yen, while Chinese bank notes circulate. Northern Manchuria uses rubles and other coins, with the Chinese Eastern Railway restricting accepted coins.
Egypt will raise the Assouan Dam by fifteen feet to increase Nile water storage and reduce flood risk. The project aims to boost irrigation capacity and generate more power, enhancing regional drainage and agricultural stability.
Debates in Congress during the presidential year strain official reporters who must capture fast moving speeches. Phonographs, relays, and shaving machines help produce a timely, verbatim record for both houses, with contracts in the Senate and salaries in the House.
The Baltimore News notes a sequence of attempted monarch assassinations in Portugal Servia and Sweden as signs of an assassination wave. It argues many attackers are unbalanced and urges correction through strong deterrence to curb further acts.
An old Bible in the Wolfenbüttel library carries a famed error from 1580 when a printing quarrel led to a printer’s wife replacing herr with narr in Genesis. She was punished and later died in prison after the copies were ordered destroyed except for one surviving copy.
Mrs Simon Kruse once Edna Dickerson built a court reporting business into a sizable local enterprise. With twenty five employees and a nearly two million dollar legacy she stands as owner of a prominent firm in the city.
A Cynical Bachelor notes that married life is often unhappy because a woman cannot always distinguish a man's peace of mind from a piece of hers in a Philadelphia Record quotation.
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