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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1907
Page
2
The piece surveys editorials from multiple papers on morals in government and business, curiosity about Mars, American cookery abroad, and the legality of foreigners. It reflects on pageant style celebrations versus costly fairs and calls for a controlled, limited use of pageant areas for national expositions.
A fragmentary poem by James MH Richardson contemplates a broken shell as a meditation on fate time and knowledge. The speaker muses on waves rings and a near eternity while seeking glimpses of hidden truths through poetic imagery and symbolic objects.
A famous author visits a country manor during a storm and connects with the family of Beresford Pierson Fortesque. The encounter stirs the woman host’s longing for city life and contrasts with the guest’s celebrated career and the children’s bright world. The motto Laetus Sorte Mea lingers as the two women reflect on life, success, and what a home truly means.
The article notes blasting depth limits in France at 112 meters and prohibits reworking fired holes. It introduces apokonin a road binding from a Saxon firm, outlines a burns treatment using eggs whites egg white paste and castor oil, reports on coin antiseptic effects noting gold's weaker action, and describes a method to measure artesian flow by bottle and cap explosion. It mentions a Canadian Northern railway ballast containing gold dust and Mond gas in English pottery firing offering higher furnace temperatures and smokeless operation.
A Halifax company launches the Sthtastometer for lining up shafting and machinery. It features a rigid gun metal base 16 inches long a glass tube 12 inches long and a brass scale along the tube with about one eighth inch graduations matching one thousandth of an inch per foot. A table shows the required packing thickness to bring shafting to level at a glance.
Swiss and Austrian exploitation of a new motor for crude oil claims perfect combustion and lower consumption. An engine factory is under construction at Kresweil Thurgau with Engineer Oberhausli as head. The device aims to burn any oil including cheap crude oil, reducing fuel use to 7.05 7.8 oz per horsepower hour, with a Vienna trial running 11 hours daily for four months without cleaning.
A Jewish woman visits a doctor complaining of left eyelid pain. The physician identifies a drop of blood in the eye white, sparking shock until the woman reveals her left eye is glass. The exchange ends with the doctor’s bemused correction.
The United States shows an average fire loss over $2 per person compared with about 33 cents per head in six leading European countries. The gap is attributed to looser building laws and raises business costs in the United States.
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