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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1908
Page
2
The Chicago News notes that many men reflect on past actions and wonder why they behaved heedlessly, conveying a cautious moral tone about personal judgment.
The Atlanta Journal notes a Baltimore citizen raises a question about whether a person bitten by a licensed dog can sue the city. The inquiry centers on municipal liability and state dog bite statutes.
The Chicago Tribune notes that if the prohibition movement continues its momentum the bureau for reclaiming arid lands will need enlargement.
A writer in the Lady's Realm observes that bald men dominate politics. She notes few leaders with hair on the front benches and suggests boldness counts more than appearance in the House of Commons.
The New York Globe discusses the rising number of female smokers in America, amid speculation on causes such as fashion, habit, or desire for nerve sedatives. The piece frames the trend as a noteworthy social development.
In an era of scarce money the Brooklyn Reflector quips that any fool can go to the bad but it takes a man to make good. The remark frames contemporary views on thrift and virtue.
The New York World notes many marriages and business partnerships fail when one member behaves dishonestly or defrauds the others. If the sole bond is sentiment or selfish motive, a shift in feeling dissolves the cohesion and collapses the union.
A New York Evening Post correspondent argues the United States should be officially represented at the Quebec tercentenary. He notes two Royal barregiments raised in New York New Jersey and New England and the Meena' Rangers aiding Wolfe's victory.
The Philadelphia Record argues that when a majority of adult women demand suffrage they will gain power. It questions what privilege they seek that men have denied them and urges equal rights across families.
A Rome church placed a half page ad in a city paper causing wide comment. Proponents praise the bold move while critics doubt its effectiveness. The piece hints that church services could be publicized like lectures as such advertising becomes common.
The Westminster Review says a person’s worth to society rests on contributions to human advancement across intellectual moral scientific esthetic and social fields. A donor who gives more than he receives aids progress. one who takes more than he gives burdens society and lowers development.
The piece argues that foreign nobles may appear courteous and refined, but the New York World notes that true domestic virtue lies with the American man. Frequent divorces of American wives from their titled husbands suggest the foreign noble’s true attitude toward women remains hidden until marriage.
A lyrical piece requests the key to distant fields and woods, longing for peaceful nature and release from urban toil. The speaker yearns for the edge of world landscapes and the All-Mother’s magic, hoping to be gathered back to a life of work after dreamlike exile.
Thomas Cleary, a nearly twelve year old office helper, saves a bank money roll during a city fire. He secures the receipt and escapes with the corals Celia Gilman values, while Celia and Mr. Gilman recognize his courage and reward him with pay raises. The tale ends with the Cleary family welcoming Thomas into their circle as a praised neighborhood figure.
A list of aphorisms covers work and wealth honesty and growth. It includes lines about riches and poverty attention to business competition application perseverance organization and happiness as daily habit.
In a fiery noon blaze Celia is saved by a brave boy named Thomas who enters a smoke filled building to rescue her. The town learns of his risk and wonder why he had been kept away from the Gilman family. Celia mourns the loss of money and questions fate as the fire chief questions where Thomas went.
A science note explains that the top of a moving wheel travels faster through the air than the bottom due to axle rotation. It also describes a rope pump concept where liquid is absorbed by rope and squeezed out between rollers, with friction as the main power cost.
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad uses an axle light system where each car has its own storage battery charged by wheel axles and locomotive head lights draw from the same source. Full trains, excluding the locomotive, produce about 5000 candle power of light.
The German use of industrial oxygen and hydrogen from water electrolysis is proposed to expand hydrogen as a lighting agent. It is already used to inflate military balloons and stored in steel cylinders for fighting purposes. A burner may make hydrogen cheaper than acetylene, with a cost ratio of twenty five to fifty for equal illumination.
The Executive Committee of the Turin International Exhibition of 1911 announces an international competition for fireproofing preparations. A 4000 kreuzer prize plus two gold and two silver medals will be awarded for innovations that render wood and cloth structures incombustible without visible change to color or material strength.
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