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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1908
Page
2
Poem by Claire Wallace Flynn imagines a seaside house as a refuge from the world. The speaker cherishes the imagined home’s walls as heart walls and seeks a magic touch to make the dream into a true home.
In Shanghai and Canton, American Consul John Harriman intervenes in a jewel theft scheme tied to Lu Luang. The beetle of the Luang house drives a rescue plan, staging an undercover purchase to recover the family token and save the heir. A mob chases Harriman after a failed bid, but he escapes aboard a steamer with the beetle secured.
A collage of quips and exchanges from various papers. Jokes include a solicitor and subscription humor, a witty car remark, servant references, Mrs Clancy and pay, a child’s mischief, and a financier’s view on a nickel panic. Oddities from Punch and Puck tone the collection.
Southern Indiana farmers convert waste land into fast growing trees like black locusts and catalpas to combat timber shortage for fence posts. Land bought for six to ten dollars an acre could yield a crop in ten to twelve years worth two hundred sixty to eight hundred dollars per acre, with the Forest Service backing the movement.
A Hartford clergyman on Mark Twain’s seventy second birthday praises his kindness and selfless cheer while recounting Twain’s sharp remark after a sermon. Twain said the preacher’s sermon distracted him from his own thoughts, losing him a half hour, as reported by the New York Tribune.
A humorous quip from a Catholic publication notes the typhoid germ stating it fights best when weakened, prompting the grip microbe to ask why. The exchange wryly reflects on resilience and irony in disease portrayal.
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