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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1908
Page
2
A collage of editorials cites varied views from papers like the Louisville Courier-Journal and Chicago News on wealth taxes, prohibition, insurance, reform, and the Manchuria issue. It threads concerns about housing for domestic workers, seafaring labor, and the Army canteen debate with calls for action.
A fragment from Bohemian sources describes a death scene with burning embers fading, ash, a chilly room, and a stark, dim candle glow. The speaker recalls a lover associated with flowers and wonders at the fragility of life as bloodstains fade into frost.
In 1779 Colonel John Gillespie leads a small North Carolina partisan band against a Tory camp by Deep River. When thirty of his men are captured, Gillespie rides alone to distract the camp, while John Hall and others are freed by a daring breakout that ends in a chaotic horse chase and a dramatic reveal. The tale highlights frontier bravery and the volatile, brother-against-brother nature of the Carolina struggle for independence.
Father Collins of St. Agnes parish shares a self deprecating joke about sailors debating a bird in Golden Gate Park aviary. One sailor asks his opinion, the priest declares the bird a skylark, prompting a quip about him being a sky pilot. The tale appears in the San Francisco Call.
In Germany vaccination of cattle against the fatal disease black leg becomes widespread and highly effective, with only three deaths reported in five years.
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