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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1908
Page
2
Goshen Daily Democrat notes the New York tenant strike of January 1 as an act against rising rents tied to land costs and subletting abuses. It links crowded city tenements to poverty, calls for relocation efforts, and highlights health officials' involvement and broad social tensions.
A meditation on the Sphinx’s conception and stone realization, lauding the mind behind the statue. The piece notes England Germany tradeoffs in Africa, Guatemala railroad progress, and potential canal traffic impact, plus society vignettes including Mrs Pankhurst and Monaco debts.
A Chicago man recalls his conversion at 11, early church life, and growing disillusion by 21 as he moved to Chicago and stopped attending. He notes widespread church enrollments while asking where members go when they stop attending, not blaming the church or Billy Sunday.
Ida Vera Simonton returns from Africa to donate bulbs of camelia rose and rare orchids to the Phipps conservatory and Carnegie museum. The gifts include the gloriana superba lily, and religious artifacts and dyed textiles from western Africa, reflecting Egyptian influences and mummy-era dye techniques.
A passage from Robert Hichens' The Spell of Egypt notes how the Sphinx inspires awe beyond belief and stirs thoughts of the soul's life after death. The author contrasts finite greatness with the infinite, likening the Nile's flow to a spiritual journey.
J M Cage and E F L Russell unveil a nine foot three inch steel submarine with dual motors for vertical propellers, electric batteries, and shore switchboard control. The Sagebrush model tests aim to prove absolute submerged control and potential wartime use. Government experts will evaluate after initial Denver tests.
Baltimore funeral directors and independent undertakers clash over price cutting. Bold billboards show enormous coffins with slogans promising best service at a flat $75. Advertisers tout modern conveniences and no extra charges, while rivals dispute quality and ethics.
Two blind Columbia University sophomores, J. H. Mullen and B. Berinstein, top their class in midyear grades with three A’s and three B’s for Berinstein and A, B, C for Mullen. Both are possible Phi Beta Kappa candidates, facing exams with normal standards through private guidance and typewriter answer submissions.
London scientist Frederick Hovenden claims to photograph etheric waves of heat and electricity as a visible fluid. He demonstrates by illuminating tobacco smoke in a glass box and watching rays from a lamp permeate the smoke and finger. He also shows air appears coal black when illuminated and magnifies air molecules under a microscope.
New York report details William Cullen Bryant Kemp, a Columbia University student for 27 years, bound by a will to remain enrolled to receive $2,500 yearly. The court upheld the arrangement, mandating dormitory residence and preventing marriage. Kemp plans further study possibly toward multiple advanced degrees.
Frederick Thompson, manager of Luna Park, gains control of the Pennsylvania Terminal roof under a 20 year lease from the Pennsylvania Railroad. The roof garden will span Seventh avenue to Thirty-third street and be larger than Madison Square Garden with winter ice rinks and summer open park.
Dr W J Sinclair of the University of California issues a bulletin disputing Prof J D Whitney's claim of early human life in California. The study, titled Recent Investigations Hearing on the Question of the Occurrence of Neocene Man in the Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada, critiques Whitney's deductions based on the Calaveras skull and auriferous gravels examined by UC anthropology.
The essay argues heredity and environment shape humanity and endorses persuasive rather than mandatory measures to steer marriage. It advocates easy marriage but difficult divorce to promote stable families, warns that public policy should respect individual choice while guiding unions for race improvement.
Advice column argues that marrying a flirt leads to happiness and outlines the positive traits of a flirt. It cites historical figures to illustrate flirtatious influence and suggests women with spirit and energy can be good wives and mothers, bringing vitality and sunshine to daily life.
A shift in orthodox prayer views is described as science broadens life laws. Prayer becomes gratitude and effort toward right relations with life order. Daily work replaces rain dances and sermons. sanitation, irrigation, and policy become prayers in practice.
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