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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
6
A naturalist describes patient river expeditions to observe alligators up close. The narrator details quiet waiting on a bed of an alligator’s basking site and the eerie proximity of the creature, noting the thrill and nerves needed to maintain calm under threat.
A clergyman faced repeated money lending pressure from usurers. After dodging calls and letters about life insurance and other matters he declined to visit London. A registered letter then sent £250 in notes with a repayment promise, which the clergyman handed to his solicitor who recovered costs after returning the notes.
In a tale from The High Tops of Black Mount by the Marchioness of Breadalbane, McLeish remains a witty target of Johnson’s dictum about Scots. A Gaelic argument halts at a deer sighting with the marchioness urging English and McLeish replying that learning it earlier would have helped on the hill.
A young Austrian nobleman famed for wit agreed with a friend to remain perfectly silent for the first year of his marriage to a countess’s daughter. He kept the vow, prompting his wife to suspect insanity and seek a brain specialist. The man revealed the wager when the year ended and paid the stake.
A Lexington Dispatch reader dismisses the governor controversy as foolish and urges calm between rival camps. He notes a past meeting between Bill and Locke in Teensboro and suggests even rivals in the plum race should act cordially to avoid needless conflict.
The Washington Post reports on tiny wooden barrels turned from white birch ranging from an inch and a half to ten inches tall. Modern lathes produce barrels quickly, with four machines handling small sizes. Millions are produced yearly and sold in carload lots, 2 000 gross each. Barrels hold candy cups, perfume bottles, savings coins, button boxes, and toys, with many exported worldwide.
A letter from Mrs. Williams of Gardiner Maine credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with saving her from surgery after doctors said it was necessary. A Chicago woman named Alvina Sperling reports cure of a tumor and inflammation without operation.
The Putnam Organs boast strong cases and handsome, up to date designs. They use first class kiln dried lumber, screws dowels and quality glue, hand rubbed varnish, three ply Messany bellows and engine rubber. The firm W. W. Putnam & Co. are veteran voicers and tuners, inspecting each instrument before shipment from a well equipped factory.
R J Bowen and Co reports that Greensboro druggists filled 570 nonprescription liquor prescriptions in May with 385 at one store and 192 at another. Only two licenses exist. a police monthly list shows prescribing doctor and patient. Aldermen discuss liquor ordinance changes. Guilford County Medical Society forms a committee to advise on druggists liquor sales.
A London Saturday Review correspondent describes a deep sea fish with a globular electric light at the front of its mouth and a curved tail springing from the head. The glow illuminates darkness to attract prey, which swim into the waiting larger fish for a swift feast.
A compact moral meditation on honesty kindness and self restraint. The speaker urges earning modestly and spending wisely to support a happy family life. It emphasizes maintaining sincere friendships and inner peace amid adversity, demanding fortitude and delicacy from a man.
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