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Newspaper
Grayson Tribune
Location
Grayson, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
7
The account of Thomas Rose's Libby prison tunnel work details patient toil from a kitchen fireplace approach to the underground exit. Comrade Hamilton risks danger to free Rose when he becomes trapped, with guards puzzled by missing prisoners as the tunnel advanced and Rose emerges to see the sky at last.
Sergeant A. C. Van Dusen, artillery veteran, recalls guarding Jefferson Davis at Fort Monroe. He notes Davis’s courteous manner, breaking orders to talk, and moments when tobacco and cigars were supplied. Van Dusen, from New Glatz, Prince George's County, Maryland, reflects on wartime duty and Davis's captivity.
The article explains Lent as the 40 day fast before Easter, following Moses, Elijah, and Christ. It notes Greek Tessarakoste and Latin Quadragesima, Italian Quaresima, French Careme, German Fasten zeit, Dutch Vasten, and the English Lent from Anglo Saxon Lenden meaning spring.
Senator Perkins of California told the senate that naval spending since 1883 totaled about 1.24 billion dollars and built up iron and steel industries, boosting wages from 140,000 workers in 1880 to 857,000 in 1905 while expanding allied trades and farmer and merchant prosperity. He argues government revenue invested in a navy yields broad prosperity and warns against industrial stagnation.
The Ripon Wisconsin schoolhouse where the Republican Party began in 1854 is urged to be protected as a sacred relic. The piece argues to honor the birthplace alongside Lincoln and Grant sites, noting the party’s formation by citizens from Whigs and Free Soilers and its enduring national development and prosperity.
Rogers W. Cox of Scranton describes enlisting as a drummer at 15 years old in Company BD, 143rd Pennsylvania, serving as foot orderly for General Doubleday and later fighting on picket lines near Richmond. He was wounded twice, carried the regimental flag through battles from the Wilderness to Hatcher's Run, and mustered out after nearly three years with full duty aside from a frog felon on his hand.
The president urges Congress to remove the duty on wood pulp as a forerunner to broad protective tariff reform. The move is framed as safeguarding national assets, with forests highlighted as the priority. The proposal aligns with Republican protective principles and signals a next congress review.
Official data for seven months ending January 1908 report American exports of food stuffs totaling $258,391,644 with breadstuffs and meat dairy products leading. Raw cotton exports add $316,862,105, bringing farm produced goods to $575,253,749 in that period. The claim of farmer distress from lack of foreign markets is challenged by these figures.
The president denounces anarchistic literature as a path to murder and urges immediate Justice Department inquiry into suppressing inflammatory papers. He suggests Congress consider a special law or amendments this session to curb circulation through government channels.
Step by step instructions describe weaving a circular bag from heavy cord and twine. A 20 inch cord forms the spine, two ends tied to chair backs, with 24 twenty five inch twine strands woven to create a hammock like mesh. The bottom closes with tied sides and fringe, finishing with two handles attached to the cord circle.
The text describes fastening handles to a bag by looping ends under the cord at the top, bringing ends up to each side of the handle, sewing ends to the handle, and tying the sewn portions with fine cord as shown in the diagram. It emphasizes secure attachment and neat binding.
A school mystery unfolds as a freckled boy refuses to reveal his father's occupation. After coaxing, he tears up and confesses that his father has no regular work and is the bearded lady at the circus, warned by his mother not to speak.
The New York Tribune notes pay as you enter cars solve exit issues for women with front door grab handles. It remarks this forces exits facing direction of travel and claims it will please lovers of beauty in art or nature.
A Valparaiso mother, fearing a looming quake, sent her sons to a friend in the country. Days later the friend sent a note advising them to take the boys with you and send the earthquake along.
A simple device using falling water drops near a rubber sheet and a metal tube can replicate a microphone by magnifying feeble sounds. By aligning a glass dropper and a watch close to the stream, the ticking is echoed through the water and rubber, and gains further amplification with a funnel connected to the tube.
A boy aged 13 or 14 borrowed Ramsey's Life of Washington from neighbor Crawford. A storm drenched the book soaking its value. He vowed repayment, offered to work to cover the cost, and earned the book by completing the debt to Crawford.
A man claims you cannot make four equal triangles from six matches. The diagram arranges three matches as a base triangle and three standing upright to meet at a common point above, producing four triangles in total.
In a quiet family scene a boy named Bobby visits his English aunt in Canada. At lunch she offers curried chicken and he answers with silence and confusion, then mutters I don’t know. She clarifies the family custom, explaining they do not curry their chicken but instead pick them.
A child explains why a splinter makes blood spill when the finger already bleeds. The teacher confirms the concept of limited blood capacity in the thumb and the resulting overflow as the explanation.
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