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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1908
Page
2
The Milwaukee Sentinel urges residents to halt fly habitats in yards and alleys with practical precautions as the campaign progresses.
The Springfield Republican quotes the governors of South Carolina and North Carolina urging water conservation. The exchange underlines regional concern over water supply amid drought conditions and shared resource management.
The Indianapolis News notes a Columbia University professor has devised an electric light that yields more illumination using less current and will outlast bulbs supplied by the city’s electric company.
The New York Tribune lauds Aniceto Garcia Menocal as a major authority on the isthmian canal and a strong promoter of the project. It notes his preference for Nicaragua over Panama and his opposition to Ferdinand de Lesseps. Menocal’s efforts helped rally American sentiment for an canal under U S control.
The Census Bureau analyzes two decades of divorce records showing 1.3 million applications for dissolution of marriage. The Argonaut warns government action alone cannot relieve churches homes schools and presses of duty to promote happy marriages and the sacredness of wedlock.
The Christian Register argues Adam was a gentleman and Eve a lady in response to scornful questions about early humanity. It notes they belonged to a society that later included Cincinnatus and George Washington, praising merit and honoring those who return to the soil as world workers.
A London physician Dr H H Riddle argues high temperatures benefit human life. He notes humans rely on perspiration, not lungs, to regulate heat. Experiments in India show breath rate and heart action fall, while liver and spleen bear the main burden from heat.
Katharine Tynan portrays a man who valued spiritual riches over earthly possessions. He gave worldly prizes to others, saved only what endures, and leaves behind a widow and orphans with pain. He travels light toward Paradise, eighty years old, carrying faith, hope, and living waters.
In a moonlit churchyard Mr. Richard Burrows listens as two burglars break into St Marys. A wary plan to steal yields a failed heist with Bill’s reluctant conscience and Arry’s nerves, ending in an empty safe and Burrows noting every profession has its setbacks.
It is unsafe to paint cement before a year of weather exposure unless washed with a weak acid to counteract alkali. A German biologist estimates the human brain has 300 million nerve cells with about 5 million dying and being replaced daily, yielding a completely new brain every sixty days.
An Englishman traveling in Sumatra learns from locals of the existence of flying snakes. He discovers these reptiles actually exist and possess an anatomical peculiarity that lets them descend safely from high trees to ground or water.
French astronomer M Camille Flammarion cites recent measurements showing Europe growing colder with Paris recording about one degree below normal. Spring is most affected, and England Belgium Spain Italy Austria and Germany report similar trends.
Auer von Welsbach’s accidental discovery shows an iron alloy with cerium and other earths that sparks when struck and can ignite gas or alcohol soaked wicks. The process matches Ethiopian and Egyptain methods shown in Florentine stone depictions of slave bellows and hammering.
The article anticipates a near term rise of motive power applied to agricultural operations, predicting a great development in farm power and mechanization of farming. It notes Country Life as the source of the quotation.
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