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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
2
The Salt Lake Tribune cites educated needs for a spelling bee. The New York American questions a two cent postal union for European countries. The New York Sun weighs whether papers should be sealed in divorce cases based on legal or moral grounds.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes an Indian banker convicted of horse theft also runs an unusual sideline. Puck adds society is something to keep people out of, yet worth entering if it truly arrests doubt about its value.
A Portland woman who speaks nine languages gains attention from the Richmond Times Dispatch, nearing the realm of hard money status for her linguistic skill and cultural breadth.
The Pittsburg Gazette Times comments on tying a summer to a small umpire salary. It cites The Dial and Thoreau on the idea that both the walker and the poet are born, not made, noting disagreement among authorities.
The Philadelphia Press suggests wind power could lessen strain on wood and coal supplies while supplementing water power to provide electric energy for commercial use. The idea targets expanding local power generation and reducing reliance on dwindling resources.
A German journal reports oceans contain 2,000,000 tons of dissolved silver, stirring talk of a new mine issue. The Louisville Courier Journal cautions about amalgamated oceans and market opportunities, while editorials urge prudent resource use and economies after prior waste.
Piano dealers in New York announced the end of the square piano at their annual session. The instrument's decline has been expected for years as newer styles take its place, leaving memories of family gatherings and its role as a furniture piece for newspapers and bric-a-brac.
Quoted poem fragment requests both delight and despair, contrasting joy and sorrow as a reflective plea. The lines evoke music laughter and tears, tying beauty to toil, light, and stormy memories within a McClure's Magazine context.
Old Joe from Newport, Ky arrives in London with a bogus dollar and schemes to conquer the market by selling used coats and outfits through the Great Central American Second-Hand Clothing Company. He manipulates crowds, buys out Nathaniel Weihrauch, and expands to multiple stores while earning a yacht life and royal reception.
Chicago railroad man Daniel W. Thornton showed in Canton a remarkable satin copy of General Andrew Jacksons farewell address from 1837. One of fourteen printed on white satin, the 11 000 word document survived with the others gone in a Canton editor's fire. The piece warns against civil war and criticizes banking power, with the Civil War following 24 years later.
Influential London women including the Countess of Jersey and Mrs Humphrey Ward join a organized effort to oppose granting women suffrage, as reported by the New Haven Register via the New York Herald.
Peterborough mourns Miss Anne Mander oldest resident and believed country’s oldest spinster. She neared her centenary and on her ninety ninth birthday received a congratulatory letter from Queen Victoria.
The Indianapolis News notes that some people possess the gift of sleep, while others do not. It praises mothers and grandmothers for their ability to take quiet naps during the day, especially amid busy schedules, calling this a clever attainment of the eternal feminine.
Mrs Carroll Mercer former Marquise St Allaire once praised by Queen Victoria for beauty signs a contract with a renowned decorator in New York City. She abandons society life to pursue profitable work as an interior decorator after leaving her Norfolk home as a bride.
The article describes making decorative pottery at home using plasta or plasterine. With simple tools and water, one kneads and rolls the material, shapes bowls and jardinieres, and fires the pieces in a kiln. Finished pieces can be colored with oil paints and given a wax mat glaze.
A pear pudding recipe combines crushed soda crackers with milk and a rich custard of butter sugar orange rind and juice and egg yolks. Dried pears simmered and folded in, baked slowly for three hours, served warm or cold with sauces. Frances E. Peck.
The Birmingham Age Herald weighs in on gender roles noting two thirds of girls on stage would choose the kitchen over theater. A wry quip imagines how the average chorus girl would prepare a dinner, provoking thought and humor.
Washington society figure Mrs Mercer hosted distinguished foreign visitors at her home, a hub for the capital’s Southern and diplomatic set. Her maiden name was Minna Tunis, and she is descended from the last Earl of Anendale.
The London Opinion laments working women mimicking the Gibson girl and pleads for a natural, plain yet graceful ideal. It envisions a fresh English maiden with simple fashion, natural hair, and genuine charm, urging guidance to restore old dignities and curb vanity.
Silk muslin gowns feature refined hems and new petticoats. Filigree trims rise in popularity while parasols stay simple. Dotted Swiss fabrics show smart colored effects and stonework. lacework and jabots gain delicate finishes. Green trims and embroidered lingerie lighten gowns as Paris designs shift between walking coats, directoire styles, and Shantung skirts with subtle finishing touches.
Madrid police finally clear the streets of beggars, allowing only blind individuals to remain as observers of the city scene, reflecting a harsh public order action.
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