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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1908
Page
2
The California Humane society will ask the legislature to enact a law for an annual public school observance of Luther Burbank's birthday to promote bird and tree life. The plan honors a living innovator, praised by the Troy Times for his work in improving nature's products and adding value.
The Boston Transcript recalls how even members of the Academie Francaise err in spelling. An anecdote about Gaston Boissier and Renan shows autographs fetch prices based on misspelled words. A 1868 Compiegne dictation by Empress Eugenie and Prosper Merimee reveals many errors among academicians.
Outing Magazine notes varied basket uses in Mexico. Gamecocks are kept in baskets or hats with air holes, and the cock fighting tradition surpasses bull fights in ubiquity. A peasant may house a prized bird in a patio cage, while another odd sight shows a man carrying his ancient great-grandmother in a large basket for coins from passersby.
A group led by H. J. Macomber completed a $25,000, mile long dam near Palcines Rancho fed by seven miles of ditches from the Tres Pinos and San Benito rivers. To deter squirrels a guard with a gun and a cat colony patrol the site while cross marked ribbons flutter to frighten the rodents away.
Two neighbors meet on the street and joke about a son who finished college. The first asks what he learned and the other says he can speak seven languages but lacks ideas to express them, prompting a pun about the boy’s learning.
A society baby tells the nurse heredity influences her mood and says she wants to bawl. The nurse replies with measured questions about how her inclinations manifest.
A mild-mannered man recalls danger in the Maine woods where bullets fell thickest while noting he is not a war veteran but a guide. The exchange highlights peril and rugged travel in remote terrain.
Houston mining prospectors report a small herd of wild camels in a remote New Mexico area after a three day chase. The piece recalls the 1857 US camel experiments in Texas New Mexico and Arizona and notes the herd's history from Galveston to western Texas, its scattering during the Civil War, and lingering myths.
While eating oysters Lucky Lucien Lusk chipped two front teeth on an unusually hard substance found in a blue point oyster market. The object proved to be a pearl, perfect in shape and color, valued at about $1,000.
A new steel light-ship will replace the Sandy Hook craft at Ambrose Channel on December 1. The ship will bear the name Ambrose Channel 87 with the channel marked on her hull, ending the long era of the Sandy Hook light-ship used to guide transatlantic trips.
The Philadelphia mint runs coins as holiday demand grows and about a thousand bronze cents weigh seven and a half pounds. The copper cents contain 90 percent copper and seldom return to the mint for recoining, leaving the origin of the stray pennies a longstanding mystery. The piece also ponders the fate of all the pins.
In June 1907 Massachusetts authorized savings banks to issue life and annuity policies to help workers at low cost. Two banks started insurers, two more filed agencies. The plan aims to lower policy costs and provide old age protection, tying trade unions and savings bank insurance to raise the living wage and ease premium collection through union channels.
A writer describes his simple method: entertain first, ensure the plot drives the story, and let characters serve the plot. He writes for personal joy, aims to relax and please readers, and notes moods influence output. The author cites nine or ten months for long novels and six weeks for short ones, beginning each story on the 26th.
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