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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
11
The 1908 US coinage totaled 215 7 4 862 with gold 2179 238 397 and silver 16 532 477. Seven Philippine issues and one Mexican peso centavo coinage varieties accompanied a note on bronze tablets planned for Brandywine Park Wilmington. A Rubinstein anecdote follows, illustrating a rail car affront.
The article notes almost a doubling of physicians in ten years with about 20 000 in practice and nearly 2 000 graduates each year from medical schools. Fees fall due to competition and improved hygiene reducing disease, with some Paris districts charging only a franc for a doctor’s call. Panama hats are described as crafted from cremlors screw pine leaves through special treatment and underwater weaving. Baltimore hires a shepherd in kilts to tend sheep in Druid Hill park, sending for Edinburgh kilts to outfit him.
Charolles a small town near Macon in France reports a shower of sulphur. Roofs gardens fields vineyards rivers and oil are coated with yellow dust. Peasants in fields suffer a sulphurous biting odor that makes breathing difficult for a time.
Excavations in Olympia Greece near the altar of Zeus uncover neolithic houses and tools, suggesting human habitation over 2000 years before Christ. The report notes ongoing public works with a 34 million dollar federal project and around 100 unfinished initiatives from prior years.
The report totals Colorado land by category with reservations and Indian land, state ownership, and open lands. it also notes YMCA Philadelphia branch size, total season attendance, and a butcher shop upgrade to an electric saw. It mentions Wesley Brotherhood and Brotherhood of St Paul union increasing Methodist membership from 160,000 to 1,500 apotle ties amid wartime context.
The Paris dispatch says the submarine at Sherbourg will be 208 feet long with substantial displacement and a projected speed of 15 knots. It notes government spending on agriculture exceeding 200 million dollars, employing up to 8,000 experts and 17,675 publications. India’s government earmarks over 1 million for loans to farmers to sink wells and improve irrigation embankments. A London charity case describes a young woman seeking workers' compensation after injuries from falling angels on a muddy surface near Madetto.
fragmentary report notes John Conners and a farmer near Bewlah Kansas selling cornhusks to wrap tamales and mentions a 155,280 dollar remittance and a 10 percent share. references Australian wireless stations planned along Ita.
The Independence party in Chicago sets forth a conservative program to restore government to the people. It calls for public ownership, eight hour workday, labor protections, antitrust enforcement, postal reform, and a strong navy while opposing Asiatic immigration and political bosses. The platform emphasizes democracy, liberty, and equal rights.
Maggie Bowls spinator of Iowa wed John Lee widower who made a fortune in Horse Heaven southwest of Spokane. The ceremony took place at the groom’s home in Prosser Washington performed by Rev. W W Adams. A lawn reception followed with a stable tet in Wegh noted in local reports.
First Baptist deacons of Atlantic City send wives to LaCrosse Wisconsin to urge Rev. John W. Hoag to wed and relocate. They carry a promise to establish housekeeping and urge a summer wedding despite the bride's reluctance.
The Franco British exposition's success spurs a new European Amusement Parks United venture with $2,500,000 capital led by J Henry Iles Frank C Bostock and Joseph Menchen. The plan includes new rides and Wars in the Clouds aerial battle spectacle to lure European crowds.
A Newark Ohio dry goods merchant and detectives stopped a pair of con men before they boarded the Cunard Ine ship Charmania. Henry Dougherty and Ernest Weber attempted to cash checks totaling 1200 dollars tied to a scheme to steal a passenger’s luggage. Police traced the suspects, exposing a larger tramp ring.
The Rev Hiram Bingham arrived from Honolulu on the Winer Alameda and became a noted figure in the Gilbert Islands history. He observed natives with no writing and no paper before the mission. A stolen parcel carried scraps of paper led to a myth that it was white man’s food.
A fragment from the Chicago Tribune discusses a curious usage in older speech, asking what the honorific Hon. before a name signified and noting it is now of little consequence.
A garbled extract recounts the Enoch Arden tale of bigamy and absence ending in death, noting Annie Lane or Lane and Philip’s relationships, with Mrs Arden left in a village shop scene. The piece references James Amith in Melbourne Punch and Alfred Tony near the Isle of Wight.
In Youkers Statesman a market scene features a woman asking about chicken prices. The German vendor replies he sells at two conte per pound and notes the stock was 22 cents yesterday, already prepared for sale.
The scene in a savings bank queue shows a steady flow of mothers with babies and women aging toward thrift and future plans. Many accounts are held for children while men move through quickly, reflecting everyday banking amid family life and quiet dignity.
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