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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
2
A poem attributed to Ella Heath in the Saturday Review proclaims the self as reality, transmuter of loss into gain, sun and truth, and eternity. It declares invincibility and divine fusion within the human soul.
On a late September afternoon two men sit beneath an apple tree on the Gray farm as three children return from school to the house where old man Gray lies dead. Martha Gray recalls family traces and reads from the Apocrypha while the sons watch from the yard and the hired man toils nearby.
An older woman recalls a faded attic past as Abram lies in a wedding suit in the fore room. Relatives return for his funeral after seventy years, and Martha Gray speaks softly of a house filled with memories and the children finally come home.
The French revolution spurred simplified fashion in 1800s England with short coats light waistcoats and pantaloons. Hair powder faded as taxes rose and trousers plus Wellington boots entered civilian wear around 1814. The dandy favored starched collars while George IV preferred silk kerchiefs. snuff boxes declined and seals on watch chains became iconic.
Japan reported last fiscal year ending March 31 revenue surpassing estimates by 21 million dollars. The Ministry of Finance released the figures showing higher than expected tax and other income contributing to the gain.
A child explains why a grandmother is cross after a day of chores and mishaps. The speaker confesses attempts to help with breakfast, dusting, and beds, even plunging into the tub with a brother to learn to swim, hoping to please grandma.
Joe Riley, a poor helper for his widowed mother, agrees to keep her woodbox full all winter for a promised reward. Each morning he chops wood and by Christmas finds a winter supply and gifts from the parson, including stockings, gloves, candies, oranges, apples, and nuts.
A gardener watches a cuckoo repeatedly approach a hedge sparrow nest in a city garden. The cuckoo lays its egg in the nest and then removes a sparrow egg after breaking it, leaving two sparrow eggs and the cuckoo egg. The observer notes the nest location amid nearby gardens and houses.
A nature wise lady lends her baby crow to a friend for home study. The crow, fed by relays with eggs bread and worms, creates chaos in the house, climbs to a piano nest, and is moved upstairs after two days of mischief before the owner returns with the crew.
In a Brooklyn Eagle tale Clara Kraker describes Betty who kept a corncob doll in a hollow tree. A wealthy neighbor watched Betty in the woods and swapped the corncob for a wax doll. She reveals the ruse to Betty and her mother and returns a real doll, finding happiness in the outcome.
Willis Hunt Jr twelve years old caught a record trout weighing four pounds twelve and a half ounces and seven fish total at Walker Brook tannery dam after a Sunday morning fishing trip despite his mother’s Sunday fishing ban. The fish were attracted with white millers and various baits and hauled in by hand to land the largest specimen.
A succinct adage notes that harming others harms the one who harms, emphasizing moral consequence. The saying frames wrongdoing as self-defeating and cautions against harming others for personal gain.
During the Norwegian court visit the aged scald from Telemarken impressed the King of Denmark with a three hundred year old langleik lute. He sang folk songs with noble dignity, recalling Harold Fairhaired, and accepted an invitation to visit Copenhagen.
A collection of aphorisms and maxims on virtue, money, friendship, duty, and self control. Notable lines include Plato on private and public virtue, Puck on fools and money, Socrates on justice, and various proverbs from Portuguese German and Spanish sources.
Clarence H. Mackay reports to the US Secretary of State detailing repeated sabotage of Commercial Cable Company lines by British trawlers off the Irish coast. Over the past three months cables were injured two to three at a time, costing over £20,000 in repairs this year, with interruptions forcing refusals of public transmission business. Proof of willful damage is hard to obtain.
A humorous exchange centers on funding a daughter’s music education. One speaker explains it costs much, yet the daughter’s playing finally yields value, prompting a neighborly bargain finally settled after years of trying to buy out at half price.
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