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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
2
A critique of party caucus selection and the direct primary as a remedy for honest efficiency in public office. The piece questions how a senator or local officials are chosen and urges that voters demand qualified, nonpartisan hiring based on merit and performance.
A legislator pledges support for a state direct primary law modeled on Wisconsin, applying to all officials from U S senator to local offices. He vows to abstain from party caucuses on the issue and to cooperate with other supporters regardless of party. He also states he will ensure he is not already someone else’s hired man.
A 1908 essay extols smiles as modern optimism, praising presidents Roosevelt Bryan Taft and the national fad for smile portraits. It argues smiling improves health, spirits, and social harmony, urging readers to practice a broad, contagious grin and claim the “dispensation of optimism.”
October records show transfers including John E. Shafer and Bert A. Shafer to Thomas King for 150 dollars and 125 dollars on Pierce parcels, plus other deeds. Contributions to the Bryan campaign are listed from residents of Greeley with amounts ranging from 50 cents to 2 dollars.
City notes 2,000 residents are unregistered and must register to vote this fall. With less than three weeks remaining, those who moved or did not vote in the last election are urged to register promptly.
Dr. Andrew Wilson explains salt’s prominence among food accessories and its central role in body fluids. He notes salt’s distribution in tissues, presence in excretions, and use in restoring blood salt levels after loss. The piece cites salt deprivation as a severe Dutch penal punishment and reflects on physiology and history.
Uncle Erastus tests his aging eyesight by balancing a musket to point at a bottle. Rufus confirms seeing the bottle, and the old man reassures his grandson that his eyesight remains sharp for years.
About 200 years ago missionaries taught Paraguay natives to weave lace by hand. Lace work is a leading occupation in many towns with most women children and many men involved. Paraguayan lace designs imitate spider webs and are called nanduti meaning spider web.
The rifled gun preserves bullet path by imparting rotational motion, improving accuracy and range. The first rifled gun was made by Anges Koster of Nuremberg in 1520.
It proves beyond doubt that the sponge is an animal with a complete digestive organism. In fact the sponge used for toilet and other uses is the dry flexible skeleton of the creature. Its fibrous material resembles that spun by the silkworm. Observed alive, sponges do not resemble the domes. article-Wide World Magazine.
A U S consul in Chemnitz details waterproofing and parchmentizing paper by German methods. Processes include hot asphalt and turpentine treatments, rosin in oil mixtures, rosin soap baths with zinc chloride, and calendering. Parchmentized sheets become strong, tough, and pliable. nitric acid or nitrate baths with pressure strengthen pasteboard.
A Baltimorean recalls George Ade wintering in Egypt and mocks tourists who pretend fluent Arabic after brief study. He recounts a St Joseph woman unable to understand a guide, and Ade quips that toothless old guides speak gum Arabic, blaming her for poor choice.
A New Orleans attorney recalls exams for admission to the bar where a judge in a district with bad roads and many creeks asks if a candidate can ride own a horse and can swim. If affirmed, the judge welcomes the applicant to practice in his district.
A diner at a restaurant left a five cent tip as a luncheon ending. The waiter read the token as a sign of good luck and thanked the customer softly. He mused that this first gratuity could count as a good starter for his shift.
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