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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1908
Page
2
The Nashville American reports a curious scene with a gas meter and a dramatic exclamation about sitting still and getting hustle. No clear individuals or organizations are confirmed in the readable text.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes Russia owes about 4.25 billion dollars and seeks new borrowing. The columnist warns that taking a second mortgage on the country would mark the lender as highly reckless.
The Atlanta Constitution notes lagging public interest in the canal project and calls for active patriotic publicity to keep attention focused on the gigantic endeavor until completion.
The Boston Transcript laments 350 lives lost in the North Atlantic last winter and honors the heroic and efficient efforts of the national life-saving service that prevented a greater disaster.
The Washington Post says a finished orator quits when through and many would quit before they began, notes the Norfolk Virginian Pilot in an Irish expression. The comment contrasts public speaking stamina with prudence in rhetoric.
Prof. W. N. Ferris of Big Rapids Michigan argues against football for his son and supports boxing gloves for girls as a means to prepare them for marriage and potential suitors within remarks to the Southern Indiana Teachers Association.
The New York Journal suggests a quiet island retreat for anarchists, either by their request or after legal conviction for violence. It proposes they govern themselves with no government and bear no protection for property beyond inmate honesty.
The Birmingham Ledger cautions it may be impossible to curb stock trading by law. It says some actions cannot or should not be criminalized, faults a law that only a few want enforced, and notes New York exchanges resemble highway robbery yet cannot be shut by statute.
Dr Buckley highlights a college tale of Bishop Charles H Fowler praising his prowess in mathematics. He reportedly never failed to answer a question, solved multiple examples in the time others took one, and memorized the table of logarithms to recite like a multiplication table.
The New York Tribune notes the rural delivery branch is no longer operating at a loss. It credits extensions and improvements as prudent long term investments that eventually pay for themselves within a decade. The system is praised for education, civilization, and reducing rural isolation by linking distant communities with towns and cities.
This piece urges self examination by personifying the reader as another you. Stand aside and watch yourself go by to critique motives cowardice and falseness without excuse, then return with renewed tolerance and stronger self discipline.
Kate Edwards drives through a wood fire to deliver three kegs of gunpowder to her father for a lumbering jam. She hides the powder in mud and damp sand on a pond shore and ferries the buckboard across a fire-swept trail, keeping the powder safe until a rescue party retrieves it.
A collection of global responses to the question what women would do if they ruled. Opinions range from immediate power and equality to caution on reform, including remarks by Lady Alma Tadema, Mme. Despres, Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Somerset, Yvette Guilbert, Ellen Key, and Belva Lockwood.
A German inventor created a horseshoe from paper saturated with oil turpentine and other ingredients. Thin layers are glued to the hoof to the required thickness, producing a durable and supposedly impenetrable shoe.
It is predicted that in ten to fifteen years four scientifically cultivated rubber could crowd the wild rubber of the Congo and the Latin Americas from the world markets.
Brig. Gen. William Crozier chief of ordnance reports a new rifle bullet with a redesigned head and a powder enabling an accurate life of about 4500 rounds. Early tests reduced rifle accuracy after only 1000 rounds before improvements restored performance.
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