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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1908
Page
2
The Atlanta Constitution quotes Rear-Admiral Evans urging more battleships and fewer statesmen to preserve peace among nations, arguing stronger naval power as a deterrent.
The Christian Register notes that steady effort leads to success but true achievement comes when labor becomes automatic and the result feels spontaneous.
M Briand, France's Minister of Justice, introduces a bill to widen jury scope beyond verdicts. In verdicts of condemnation jurors may also express opinions on the amount and kind of punishment to be inflicted.
The London and Southwestern Railway general manager asserts that enacting Daylight Saving would be worth about ten thousand dollars weekly to his line, a claim the New York Herald acknowledges as more than a joke.
The Southern Workman states Hampton's magazine aims to develop practical education. It seeks learning by doing, connecting classroom recitations to shop problems, teaching girls sewing housekeeping gardening and cooking, and boys agriculture and mechanics. The plan is ideal for Government Indian schools regardless of day or boarding status or location.
The Dial condemns the reckless exaggerator who drains strong phrases on trivial topics. When a great event calls for forceful description, the once-adequate terms sound worn. Funds that should accumulate for an earthquake pestilence or war are spent on daily bread, while the few prudent bear the many’s misdeeds.
An Oxford anecdote recalls Mr. Gladstone arriving in the afternoon and meeting fellows in the coffee room. M. B. had earlier opposed meeting him but relented when introduced. Gladstone remarked on the charm of Oxford for familiar names in learning, and M. B. happily served sugar and cream to the visitor thereafter.
A ghostly worker nicknamed Slim faces a print shop closing as proofs are read. The piece measures the man’s steady, solid output, jokes about overtime and pay, and ends with a prayer as dawn rises uptown over the last form.
A shy middle aged woman visits a bustling Chicago beauty parlor where Jessie the trainee quietly guides her hair wash and explains available services from facial massages to wrinkle removers. As the process continues she glimpses her own fading confidence and recalls a past moment prompting a quiet transformation.
A country-born customer visits a beauty parlor and consents to a marcel curl and puffed hairstyle. The resulting look makes her feel aristocratic, but her family reacts with surprise and eventually she abandons the fashion, reverting to her old style the next day. The incident is recounted in a Chicago News note.
In Moamba natives blamed witchcraft for drought and seized Mahelembaan’s goods before he fled to the fort. Nearby, Bob was beaten by a mob for allegedly blocking rain with an invisible skin, his family displaced and property destroyed.
The Board of Curators of Missouri State University in Columbia plans a full daily newspaper plant with telegraph service and a capable newspaper man as head. Walter Williams will serve as Dean of the new journalism school. The plant will be on campus with standards similar to other collegiate departments.
The French flag’s three colors originated with Mary Stuart wife of Francois II. White symbolized the royal house of France blue stood for Scotland and red for Switzerland in honor of the Swiss Guards. The 1789 revolutionists reportedly adopted red and blue but Lafayette urged keeping white to show no hostility to the king.
A wide survey traces royal golf from English monarchs like Edward VII to Catherine of Aragon era notes, and extends to Spain Greece Norway and Germany. It highlights royal links at Windsor Sandringham Sunningdale and Madrid plus royal children learning the sport.
The anecdote recalls Speaker Cannon in the Washington residence of Vice President Fairbanks greeting guests. His daughter Lydia Pinkham steps forward, and he asks her name. She replies Lydia Pinkham, prompting him to remark the resemblance in perceived value between her remedies and his presidential boom.
At 80 years old Mrs John Harris of Bluffton paid her first visit to any school yesterday. Her education is said to be good and was earned through her own efforts. Findlay correspondence Columbus Despatch.
A description states that hasheesh, in effect like opium, is prepared from the gum of hemp. The note highlights the drug's origin and its similarity to opium in action.
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