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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
2
The Chattanooga Times suggests a changing day for the more hired organ while the Atlanta Journal laments the ongoing pace of paper mill mercers.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat jokes about four hours of sleep being enough, and quips that piano fiends and milk wagon drivers should settle on which four hours to choose.
The New York Herald notes a new fashion of daggering through women’s hats causes panic, though the weapon is not concealed and wearers are reportedly immune from police interference.
In Oregon a public office candidate may not ask a friend to vote for him or treat a constituent on election day. The rule also prohibits giving campaign buttons to friends and making untruthful statements about an opponent.
The Louisville Courier Journal favors the spelling driver over chauffeur and urges accurate pronunciation, presenting a note on simplification in language for friendly consideration.
The Brooklyn Eagle warns that two hundred million dollars yearly are wasted on coal and a future of electric heaters may come as coal reserves dwindle. The text also claims Talo will become the hub of the universe, signaling a grand, speculative city-wide vision.
Dr H Walford Davies in the London Record laments that church music is often purely plain in thousands of churches while concert music at festivals and elsewhere shows such care and excellence that average church choirs would seem contemptible. He calls this a grave national reproach.
The Argonaut laments wasted energy in fruitless disputes over minor issues while important questions of justice and prudence suffer. The piece urges grownups to focus on large issues affecting the city and to demand common sense and integrity from municipal leadership.
The extended campaign of Massachusetts milk producers reports gains for shippers to Boston market. Abolishing the double milk standard and winter reductions may move toward a simpler standard. Advocates for milk sold under purity guarantees without a definite standard remain unsatisfied and likely to renew the contest next year.
The Philadelphia Record argues providence in edible plant abundance during meat famine. It suggests meals can skip chops or porterhouse without harm, noting U S per capita meat consumption at 185 pounds versus lower European figures, implying a possible fifty percent reduction without risk.
A society column argues that dancing was valued by great figures from biblical times to Sully and Richelieu and urges modern men to embrace dancing rather than scorn it. It cites David Socrates Plato and classic leaders to prove dancing elevates character and intellect.
The verse defines a contemporary hero as one who seizes the moment, guides through struggle, and shapes action toward the Ideal. It contrasts ancient autocrats with modern virtue, praising the arbiter of events and the knight who disciplines chaos to advance noble aims.
A man lounges with a Keats volume as his wife sleeps. He imagines her lack of appreciation and secretly leaves to socialize with friends. He returns to bed and jokes about reading to make her sleep. She calmly acknowledges waking and asks to sleep on.
A Washington Star excerpt recalls a husband who reads aloud to his wife to stay awake, then sneaks out nightly. The ruse unfolds as the wife quietly uncovers the affair, confronting his deception only after weeks of shifting alibis and feigned sleep.
An old man explains to his son a parable about a bundle of sticks, showing how capital benefits from unity while labor tied together risks being unionized. The lesson stresses keeping capital sticks tied and labor sticks separate, with a sharp exchange on fairness.
The London Chronicle notes American periodicals lean on English reports amid sparse local news. It cites the 1829 Universal Instructor in Arts and Sciences and Pennsylvania Gazette and laments scarce court and cabinet updates until spring vessels bring more information.
A Bohemian article quotes Thomas Speed Mosby offering quirky housekeeper tips. It jokes about skeletons in closets, jam jars, twins, cuckoo clocks in Switzerland, and clever ways to manage neighbors, staff, and household habits with wry humor and period tone.
The passage collects short maxims and reflections from ancient and early modern writers. It offers guidance on trust, self-discipline, courage, deceit, poverty, mercy, mortality, and providence through terse, quotable lines attributed to Nepos, Bishop Hannington, Herodotus, Thomas a Kempis, Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, St Augustine, Antiphanes, and Browning.
A chemist explains turning old boots into combs in a factory yard. Leather is cut, dipped in sulfur chloride, washed and ground to powder, then mixed with glue and pressed into comb molds. The remark highlights a strange reuse of discarded footwear.
The Field notes the puzzling color variations of cuckoo eggs and questions any protective or nutritional purpose. It observes that resemblance to host eggs offers no clear defense and dismisses the diet theory as untenable, leaving the mystery unsolved.
Dr Lomer quotes Prince Bismarck in a Berlin review claiming North America England and Germany will be future world masters. He asserts Germanic and English races conquer and that Celtic Slavic and Latin peoples are lesser without masculine influence. He sees the future as belonging to northern races and notes mixed populations as key.
An Irish inventor patents a textile process for bleaching linen yarn in bank. After boiling large quantities are immersed in a tank with sour soap and size, washed and dried without handling. The method speeds production from weeks to days, yields uniform color, and reduces damage risk.
A Chicago lawyer recalls a Nevada town tale where a popular man faced an assault with intent to kill charge. After a short jury deliberation the foreman announced the verdict: not guilty of intent to kill but guilty of paralyzing, leading to an acquittal amid applause.
A New York Herald note highlights the Smith family owning 742 telephones in New York City. It reports rapid building growth, water consumption of 500 million gallons daily, and Manhattan land's immense value and endlessly high profits.
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