28 Oct 1907
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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1907
Page
1
A worker uses a personal notebook to track every small expense from newspapers to drinks and clothing. Reading entries prompts regret and restraint, helping save the first hundred dollars, then leveraging interest to grow savings. The plan, cheap and practical, appeals especially to workers who chronicle every outlay.
A discussion on limiting the power of concentrated wealth in business and railroads through thoughtful regulation. It argues that change cannot be rapid or solely denunciatory and must be guided by prudent courts and juries, balancing private property and initiative with preventing monopoly by duress.
A reader argues that inmates deemed insane before committing crimes and those found insane after with influence should share humane treatment. He notes many inmates are clearly insane at arrest, calls for committing such individuals to asylum rather than jail, and pleads for compassionate policy to end brutal labeling as criminals.
A great Portuguese ceremony honors Senhor Hintze Ribeiro, twenty years leader of the Conservative party. King Carlos lent a royal hearse, and a long procession of carriages followed the coffin. About 20,000 mourners attended, a figure rarely seen in Portugal, with all diplomatic corps present.
A fragment from a Washington Star exchange questions the notion that people think with their feet. The speakers mock the idea in an era described as two steps and ragtime, calling the theory horrible.
The Milwaukee Sentinel notes the traveler Poor Breaks came home yesterday half starved after a quiet resort stay where attention to food was expected. The remark contrasts vacation comfort with evident hunger.
A whimsical reading excerpt describes playful scenes and dreamy imagery as a childlike narrator recalls sunny days, singing adventures, oiled seals, and imagined journeys to a distant place. The prose preserves a gentle, lullaby tone characteristic of a bedtime collection.
A Philadelphia Record item tells of a farmer guarding a valued orchard when the son of a neighbor is seen approaching the trees at night. startled, the youth halts and backs toward the gate, declaring he is returning home.
Willie Karew keeps an unusual pet in Wellington New where a pigeon forms a bond with a laying hen. The bird roosts with the hen, covers eggs when she feeds, and becomes jealous when chicks hatch, even attempting to kill the brood.
The article notes white-throated sparrows arrive with the first goldenrod and asters, their initial teep notes hinting at later musical display. These fall songsters are highly sociable, sharing gentle companionship and a plain song during dreamy Indian summer days, as observed by nature lovers in St. Nicholas.
The starling, described as bottle green with a yellow bill, began in Central Park in 1890 and has spread to Ossining Plainfield and Long Island. The bird is viewed with suspicion as a grain feeder, though its early spread has been gradual and its songs praised as melodic.
Policeman John Devlin’s dog Billy visits the hospital every morning at 10 o’clock and howls at the window until the officer leans out to talk. Hospital rules bar dogs inside, but authorities recently stretched the rule to allow Billy a brief outside presence.
The Philadelphia North American recounts a scene of devotion as a faithful animal is rewarded and led to Devlin's room. The dog appears to whine with sorrow, suggesting a heavy emotional moment noted by the newspaper.
A discussion of bird and human eating rates shows a canary weighing 16 grams consuming 512 grams in a month, equivalent to about thirty two times its weight, implying an ordinary bird eats about one fifth of its weight daily. The piece notes smaller birds eat more per weight and compares human appetite to avian standards.
A New Palestine column notes a camp fire game where players match clues to authors. Questions yield Burns Chaucer Pope Taylor Holmes Hood Coleridge Goldsmith Hart Bunyan Browning Hope and Charlotte Yonge with an extra entry Sue and Caine-Indianapolis.
In a Sunday School Times tale from Gertrude L. Stone a warm classroom prompts Earle to jiggle a door ajar. The door seems to close by itself revealing a playful lesson on the word jar and its meanings as Mollie Prescott laughs and Miss Spring explains.
Johnny refuses luncheon and tells his mother he is off to the back lot with the boys to roast sweet potatoes, prompting Mamma to ask where he is rushing. The dialogue captures a humorous domestic moment and a child’s mischief among siblings.
A miscellany of curiosities including a battleship coal tally at Malta, Venice Campanile stability studies, Prof Berg’s spider fish net, cows in Russia suffering snow blindness, a vast iron ore deposit in Sweden, a petrol lamp using porous stone, natural soap baths and a Timor soap spring, Islay desert dunes studied by S I Bailey, and a moving dune weight estimate of 8000 tons carried 126 feet yearly by winds.
The London Globe cites Darwin and Grant Allen on flowers evolving blue due to bee appeal, but G W Bulman in The Nineteenth Century argues bees visit many colors, not just blue, and that the notion of the blue flower evolving for bees is a fairy tale of science.
The collieries reap profits in the first half of 1907 and rapidly near assured prosperity for the next eighteen months. Welsh coal firms are in a stronger position than in 1900, with expectations that prices may not reach those peak levels but remain favorable.
The Lincoln National Bank in Bath Maine traces its roots to a state bank charter in 1818 and later incorporated as a national bank in 1804, marking nearly a century of operation as the oldest banking institution in Maine.
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