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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1908
Page
1
The New York state school for the blind at Batavia shows strong progress in physical training across eight classes from kindergarten to senior levels. Emphasis on marching, dumbbells, rings, and barbells aims to boost self-reliance and bodily improvement among the students.
A New York Sun glimpse shows Aunt Mary visiting a city women’s club. She admires the smoking room and facilities while the younger women debate propriety and a sewing room mystery later reveals a misread cue about needles and thread.
A traveler describes religious mixing in Macedonia and nearby regions. He notes an educated Sarajevo Mohamad kin descendent of Bogomils who served in Austria’s government and welcomed ham and whisky, labeling himself liberal. He also recalls an Albanian chief who attends mosques yet guards a Greek monastery with a monk in captivity.
The oyster opener debunks the idea that cornmeal or oatmeal fatten oysters. He explains oysters swell from water, not feed, noting stains from grains on Saddlerock shells and likening water uptake to dropsy. He prefers oysters with water rather than fattened ones.
An observer fears public sentiment has waned since earlier times. Senator Sorghum replies that the issue can wait until campaign funds are gathered, noting sentiment has value in its own arena but remains secondary to fundraising efforts.
Washington report notes strong demand in China for cotton umbrellas and patent medicines. Canton shows rapid umbrella sales since 1906, with 60 854 sold in six months this year. Chinese buyers favor quick pain relief and Western cholera preventives, signaling fortunes for individual sellers despite broader trade slumps.
Alastair Wilkie of Perth Scotland arrives in New York with a ten foot beard. He says the long whiskers are not for show but to attract an American wife. He plans to stay about a month, relies on character and wealth, and hopes to return to Scotland married if he finds love.
John and Marianna Stras, nearing a century old and married sixty years, live on ten cents a day in St. Louis. He lost an eye, now earns about one dollar weekly mending for neighbors. They say they need little and would share any surplus with the poor.
A brief, wry note from the Atchison Globe reflecting on marital dynamics. It suggests a wife’s tenderness toward a flawed husband is shaped by a stubborn, bargaining mindset and pride in whatever she receives.
Tokyo reports a previously unknown island about 280 miles east of Formose. The Japanese flag is raised, Nishigawa named for the island. Natural wealth includes shells, mother of pearl, coral, calcium phosphate fertilizer, osadori birds, plumage for Europe, tropical flora, and a rabbit-sized rat.
Mrs Mary E Hart formerly of Los Angeles and now in Seattle after Alaska trip becomes first person to stake a mining claim on an actively moving glacier at Muir Glacier near Skagway. Onboard the Seattle Sidney Morse of Hunt Gray notes passengers landed for the first time in nine years as moraines laden with ore solidified. Hart, well acquainted with Alaska mining, had previously worked a pick in her own claim and has long supervised mining ventures.
Mrs. Bessie Haney sued for divorce from John Edward Haney after five weeks of religious conduct and devotion to the Methodist church. She complained he gave a third of his income to religion and prayed nightly for her soul. She plans to remarry in St Paul after meeting Guo Weatphal in Sioux City. she was born Bessie Dunetan of Troy New York, married in Newark New Jersey in 1907.
New York dealer Patterson & Co. challenged 60 percent ad valorem duty on horsehair braids imported as silk by similitude. Circuit court affirmed, appeal to circuit court of appeals argued horsehair is vegetable growth like straw. Court asked to classify horsehair as vegetable rather than animal product.
An examination of divorce causes argues that fault is spread among spouses and social factors. It notes that women initiate in some cases, desertion and collusion blur blame, and near relatives' meddling can influence couples. The piece urges creating a wholesome atmosphere to sustain marriage.
A nineteenth century voice argues women bear criticism for extravagance in beauty yet should invest in improving expression. It links mind and body, urges daily honest self-scrutiny before a mirror, and treats facial lines as signs of character, not age, urging self knowledge and betterment.
The article argues the theater has grown from a small, selective troupe to a nationwide presence with 25 000 actors by 1908. It asserts public taste often lags art and that artistic truth endures public ignorance and not crowd verdicts.
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