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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1907
Page
2
A mother and her child stroll through a cemetery as bellows of memory rise from the stones. They read epitaphs about a notable figure, John Doe, once praised in statesmanship with tales of wealth redistribution. The visit ends as a train arrives and the child asks to return to dine and learn where sinners lie.
The article portrays Father Macleod, a Newfoundland priest with Scottish Irish roots, fishing near Avalon Peninsula. He battles a formidable salmon nine times, enduring a long, grueling struggle in fog and sun, finally landing the fish and declaring it a “braw salmon” though he would have preferred to keep it if possible.
Five Belgian shepherd dogs arrived aboard the steamship Vaderland to assist New York police. The dogs, trained for thief catching, will be assigned to outlying posts after Deputy Commissioner Wood's foreign study. Lieut Wakefield procured the animals from Ghent, noting their good temper and seaworthiness on arrival.
Reprinted from Batten's Wedge, the item recounts Bill Nye once selling a cow named Rose. The notice claims ill health forced sale at Nye's residence in township 19 range 18, describing a plush eight year old cow with odd traits and a shotgun included. The era spoof highlights Nye’s humor and confuses facts with novelty details.
Frank Melville, New York Hippodrome equestrian director after forty six years in the sawdust ring, says circuses are led by twenty historic families. He notes the arc of lineage spans over a century and a half, with a hundred fifty year tradition forming a circus aristocracy akin to royal clans.
New York leads in willow cultivation for baskets and wicker furniture with strong profits for farmers. A Massachusetts firm reports 99 percent of premium basket willow in the U S is imported from Europe, highlighting underdeveloped domestic production. Mohawk valley dominates willow rod output as demand rises and supply remains tight. European makers fiercely compete for top quality stock, with prices tripling from a few years ago.
A. H. Dunning recalled a tale from New Guinea where he offered smelling salts to a native who reacted in wild contortions. The chain of victims grew as others were brought to try the salts, watched by villagers who savored each reaction and kept the outcome secret.
The Engineering News outlines three Mississippi sections from Joliet to St Louis Cairo and Red Rock with depths and falls. It notes Illinois River slack water is feasible but deep water below St Louis faces flood dynamics and alluvial soil limits. Artificial side channels raise feasibility doubts amid high costs.
A Harper's Magazine passage recalls a white explorer reaching the Himalayan village of Ghoorm with devotees operating presses that produce Tibetan Bibles. The Gos pels are sold to northern traders for smuggling toward Lhasa, illustrating a remarkable religious underground.
The couple wed and left in a new motor car. They spent their honeymoon in a hospital in London, with Tit Bits noting the unusual venue.
Chicago office buildings will produce waste paper for a city collection drive requiring fifty wagons to handle the volume. The program aims to clear paper waste from downtown structures efficiently.
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