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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
2
The New York American says private family secrets are out in the open, urging a candid pose for newspaper photographs to accompany public interest stories about domestic life. The shift signals a tabloid friendly trend toward intimate portraits.
The Toledo Blade comments on the small number of men who can truly carry a fashion-plate appearance and live up to such high standards.
The Indianapolis News jokes a caller would fine the telephone company 29 000 000 and sentence 4000 years. The New York World questions Swarthmore’s ban on football and basketball as a precedent. The New York Mail notes Europe’s peasant becoming a citizen and landowner, while Americans label immigrants as farmers in a broad, changing identity.
The Boston Transcript notes postal savings banks flourish in the Philippines but lack authorization for the United States. The plan rests with Postmaster General Meyer and awaits the next Congress session due to time constraints. Proponents argue banks would keep immigrant funds from flowing to Europe and serve sparsely settled Western districts with safe deposit options.
The Norfolk Virginian Pilot argues Spiritualists should reach disembodied messengers to translate Martian communications. It questions mediums ability to contact guiding spirits and penetrate sidereal regions to reveal what Martians want conveyed.
Editorials warn against the buttercut scent due to disease risk while Boston physicians find little basis for alarm in the Boston Transcript inquiry. The piece notes that individuals can react differently to certain foods and scents and cites odd cases such as fainting at a forty-five degree angle.
The New York Mail notes Walt Whitman shaped his words with clear purpose while Tennyson dominates as the master of musical English. It credits Shakespeare for magic in words and Wordsworth for lofty dreaming, arguing the word itself reveals divine vision.
The farmer builds wealth through mind money machinery and muscle earning enough in seventeen days to secure a buyout of Standard Oil, a sum that would require thirty thousand million dollars to purchase.
An essay extols the modern American farmer as a businesslike innovator who drives national prosperity. It highlights earnings, machine use, diversified farming, farm machinery pioneering, Iowa and Ames as exemplars, and the shift from manual labor to scientific agriculture aided by the Weather Bureau and federal support.
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