09 Jul 1908
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
1
A community notice lists city officials including D W Cameron T Larson T D Collins M Q Axelton and others. It outlines regular worship times across denominations Methodist Catholic Lutheran and Lutheran services held weekly at local churches with pastors named and Sunday school schedules.
The Graettinger Times shows subscription terms from Merriman Publishing Company offering one year not in advance at $1.60, six months at $0.218, and one year strictly in advance at $1.00.
The Philippines offers a clear test of indigenous workers as rapid railway construction pushes forward. In three months, laborers fresh from plantations, with no prior exposure to tools or white foremen, graded at about 110000 yards monthly with picks shovels and wheelbarrows, with rock work averaging 30000 yards per month. Four foot grades were achieved, despite foremen being uneven and largely detached from regular business. The article notes reliance on manual methods and foremen’s limitations.
A Bronx Zoo keeper describes wild animals showing taste for tobacco. Bears, goats, yomas, and monkeys seek fumes. a sleeping lion sneezed after smoke. a camel spit when teased, complaining of tobacco breath amid circus antics in Brooklyn.
A Georgia mountaineer accused of illicit distilling faced United States Judge Emory Speer in the Southern district of Georgia. When asked his name the prisoner quipped Joshua who made the sun stand still, prompting light humor from the judge who then sentenced with notable leniency.
A mother bird complains of being shot at with a device as she fears waking the nestling. The exchange captures a humorous domestic moment with anthropomorphic dialogue reflecting parental concern.
Princess Fedora of Schleswig Holstein, sister of the German empress, published a new novel in Germany titled Hahn Berta. Her romantic tale follows her declined marriage offers after the death of her fiancé Duke Frederick of Mecklenburg Schwerin.
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