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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1908
Page
2
A verse from Young People s Weekly celebrates staying on a small farm. A speaker vows to keep the place rather than sell to others, savoring spring, crops, animals, and country life across the seasons. The lyric reflects devotion to rural roots and a wish to remain at the farm.
Mrs Brownlee tries to help the Harrigans by renting rooms and hiring an expressman to move their furniture. Brownlee and a hired driver end up confronting the Harrigans and a janitor, only to discover the Harrigans moved out and left the belongings. The misadventure ends with the furniture returned and Mrs Brownlee exhausted by the club’s demands.
The article traces the historic gray whale fishery off Magdalena Bay and California coast from 1846 onward. It details migration patterns, early whaling stations, fierce encounters with the whales, and evolving weapons including swivel guns and rocket harpoons. It notes the social setup at shore stations, shares, and eventual decline as oil demand fell and markets shifted.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch cor respondent notes wealthy New York families favor hotel life over city homes due to season length. Many elites stay in large semi private hotels to avoid entertaining burdens and save on time and costs, with one society woman estimating a saving of about 75000 dollars for the winter months.
Three hundred tons of tobacco are allotted annually to sailors of the British navy and sold to them at cost. The measure aims to provide affordable tobacco to crews aboard royal ships.
The Weather Bureau will set up a chain of stations around the Salton Sea to measure evaporation on a large scale. Each station will record evaporation rates and the sea’s falling level, providing a valuable record for the arid region. The Salton Sea covers about 440 square miles and the pre-salt basin level decline will help establish the average evaporation rate.
A Tit Bits fragment depicts a merchant and an office boy in a humorous exchange about stamps. The boy exclaims they have a fresh supply, while the merchant laments the forgotten order at the eleventh hour. A light moment from the column.
An old Dutch Bible discovered in Humansdorp district Cape Colony features a frontispiece that depicts Cain firing a blunderbuss at Abel, illustrating a violent biblical scene.
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