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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1907
Page
2
The text notes that George Stevenson's engine driver, who operated the first locomotive, is still living and in good health, illustrating the brief duration of the steam era.
The Mormon faith shows aggressive growth with 1500 to 2000 missionaries serving abroad. In major American cities and many international centers, the faith relies on its strongest members to expand its reach overseas.
The governors of Iowa Ohio Illinois Indiana Mississippi Nebraska Pennsylvania Minnesota Oklahoma Arkansas Missouri have signed two cent railroad rate bills and watch the clash between Governor Glenn of North Carolina and federal authorities with keen interest.
General Greely recalled Alaska conditions two years ago and marveled that government officials remained in place amid mob pressure. Rex Beach echoed the sentiment in a book and was labeled yellow by the Philadelphia Ledger.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports a sharp fall in Iowa farmland values and twelve thousand abandoned farms across twelve million acres. The Herald attributes the drop mainly to cheaper transportation enabling westward land advantage, not merely urban pull.
In Germany unemployed workers join city unions with offices where they register and bathe their clothes. If no city work is available they are sent to farm colonies for reclamation and farming. Unions provide pensions, accident insurance and other benefits to members.
A Vice-Chancellor Leaming decision affirms law supports farmers who signed canning contracts to sell their tomato crop at agreed prices. Farmers are urged to read contracts carefully and adhere to terms, as selling to outsiders at higher prices violates the agreement and may incur legal liability.
The Standard Oil Company withdraws from Japan by selling its works to Japanese speculators. Town Topics notes this move may signal potential war or commercial trouble, suggesting other American interests may also rethink operations abroad. The piece emphasizes Standard Oil as a powerful, far-reaching enterprise.
Glynn returns to Elsie Lambert with his ally Lady Gethin to lay plans for a formal meeting with Elsie and her father Lambert. Deering looms as a suspect while Glynn urges disclosure to end the danger behind a hidden courtship and a potential marriage to Helen.
A Chicago surgeon proposes using a stethoscope and a vibrating tuning fork to locate fractures in long bones. If the bone is continuous the sound through the stethoscope is clear. if a fracture exists the sound is faint and irregular. The method may also reveal when fractures have knitted.
A pious neighbor’s 15-year-old son and other youths in the neighborhood teased by nickels. The father punished the boy with the attic strap, who offered to settle the matter with heads or tails for two lickings or none.
J C Jones known as Buffalo Jones cites a U S and Canada total of not more than 1500 buffalo left. He notes large herds by Flathead Indians in Montana and Austin Corbin in New Hampshire, with Scotty Phillips in North Dakota and Goodnight’s Texas Panhandle ranch also listed. He describes catalo as a buffalo cattle hybrid with mixed traits.
A correspondent recalls a near year end incident near North Berwick. While stopped to chat, a robin perched on the whip shaft within a foot of his face and stared with bold, unafraid eyes for about half a minute despite the man’s talking and empty hands.
Pleasant Hope eclipse tale recounts a man who chopped his foot splitting wood and was told that was the consequence of doing a woman’s work, a remark cited by the Kansas City Star.
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