Wheelbarrows in China and Local News in Barrow
An excerpt reports on wheelbarrow use in China with figures from Alexander F. Georgis of Hongkong noting half a ton load capacity and long journeys by barrow. The column from Barrow covers local obituaries, births, and a small school ice cream supper event dated July 1908.
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Washington Herald
China
Alexander F. Georgis
Hongkong
Far East
America
Shanghai
Pekin
Barrow
Stanley School House
Union Cross News Social Roster Visits and Local Figures
Mr and Mrs Seales Draughon of Crutchfield hosted E B Draughon here last weekend. Dickson Booker spent a week in the community. A birthday dinner for Aunt Betsy Snow at Bird Snow's Esquire drew A Dockery Joseph Walters Uncle Sam Dockery and wife plus others. Chesco Sprink and Mrs Spi kle visited Rev A J Williams in Zephyr. Irvin Kiger of Crutchfield was here Saturday. Ex Sheriff John Johnson of
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Seales Draughon
Crutchfield
E. B. Draughon
Dickson Booker
A. Dockery
Joseph Walters
Sam Dockery
Betsy Snow
Bird Snow
A. D. Lundy
Ein Oak
Chesco Sprink
Spikle
A. J. Williams
Zephyr
Irvin Kiger
John Johnson
Serious Fall From Train In Mt Airy Citizen Hurt
Joe Fulp a prominent Mt Airy citizen fell from a moving excursion train near Mocksville junction around 7 PM and sustained serious injuries. Patrolman Apple helped him to the city hospital for treatment including wounds to the left eye and lip. The fall occurred as the train ran at a lively speed and he landed in a bed of cinders.
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Winston-Salem
Joe Fulp
Airy
Granite City
Mocksville Junction
Apple
Cinderella Variants Across Cultures Measured by Miss Cox
The piece notes Miss Cox’s survey of 318 Cinderella variants from around the world. It highlights differences such as scarce suppers and fairy godmothers depicted as beasts in cruder versions, and common elements like the stepsisters and magical gifts including a rat helper and gifts that include a golden slipper in the final scene.
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Miss Cox
Gesie Bop
Rules Governing Marking of Less Than Carload Shipments
Southern Railway announces an August 1 1908 amendment to rule a requiring each package of less than carload freight to be plainly marked with consignee name window town city and state. Freight not marked will be refused for shipment by agents. Signed C H Ackert and J M Culp vice presidents.
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C. H. Acker
Mgr
J. M. Culp
Kidney care ad urges Foley's remedy for overheating
Summer kidney problems from excess drinking or heat require immediate attention. The notice promotes Foley's Kidney remedy sold by J. H. G.
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Foley’s
Kidne
Tragic Train Fall Leaves Fulp Missing Details
The 30 year old Fulp was found dead after a fall from a train with his memory blank after boarding. His wife died ten months ago. He denies intoxication and did not have alcohol in the city, leaving the sequence of events toward the fall unexplained.
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Fulp
Uncertain wisdom in a Tatler exchange
A brief dialogue fragment shows a boy pressed by an uncle about certainty. The uncle asserts that only fools are certain while a question about confidence lingers between them. The line captures a cautious, parental tone typical of the Tatler.
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Tommy
Arctic explorer seeks funds for relief expedition
A fragment from the Philadelphia Public Ledger quotes an Arctic explorer disputing money for a dash to the wala pure and stating they now seek funds for the expedition's relief effort.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
The Landlord's Fix Cartoon Quarrel
A Louisville Courier Journal cartoon captures a comic dispute where a tenant says he cannot live a week longer without his partner, while the landlord insists on a fixed term, highlighting humorous domestic tensions.
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Duke
Smiss
Louisville Courier- Sournal
Poetry Painting and Furniture in Rossetti Circle
Rossetti urged everyone to paint and dismissed books as props for painters. He argued poetry fuels painting, a view echoed in Modern Painters. Morris pursued painting and later furniture making, initially seen as decorative support under Rossetti, crafting large chairs carved with Orris poem motifs.
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Rossetti
Morris
Barbarossa
Testimony of Eyewitness Snow Drift Claims
Two men debate exaggerated snow depths in a humorous exchange quoted from the Chicago Tribune. The witticisms play on tall tales about drifts 600 feet high or 900 feet deep, with a mountain side and a gorge cited for comic effect.
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Chicago Tribune
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Taylor
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Sydnor
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H. L. Stone
R. L. Wolf
Koechintzky
P. Graves
G. C. Welch
F. M. Poore
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S. G. Pace
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Lowgap
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