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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1907
Page
2
Will F. Griffin writes from Milwaukee Sentinel about a traveller drawn by the road and sea. The speaker rejects city noise and factory life to answer the road’s chant, seeking freedom across hills and shore in a poetic ode to wandering.
A narrator recounts malaria illness and a hospital transfer to Taboga island during Panama Canal work in 1906. He recalls a night encounter with a fearsome creature mistaken for a Gila monster, later identified as a guana eaten as chicken by the island’s resident Rafaela Marel, then details reflections on life on Taboga and local cuisine.
An enterprising New York dressmaker shows a circular base device to set skirt length by raising a disc above the floor with pegs for precise marking. A fractions teaching sphere, divided into halves and quarters, demonstrates quick division for pupils. Washington Star.
Judge Brewer cites a striking example of the kind of trickery that can hinder justice. A witness testified Mary was present at a conversation and the inquiry what Mary said was blocked. On appeal the higher court ordered a new trial, finding Mary’s words should have been answered.
In Chicago News a humorous piece has Weary Willie say a wife should seek neatness cleanliness industry sobriety honesty and courage in a husband while a battered bachelor exclaims he can claim security from the female sex.
Joel Chandler Harris, famed teller of Uncle Remus stories, is known widely. He resides in Atlanta, Georgia, and is now fifty eight years old.
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