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Newspaper
North Platte Semi Weekly Tribune
Location
North Platte, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1908
Page
3
Ferris Texas pastor and Bible school dean Rev T J Pittman is said to have completed 240 monthly readings of the New Testament over twenty years. He averages nine chapters daily, sometimes reading Greek original text, and values Bible study as standard daily life. He is life pastor of his church and continues his readings.
Ezra Meeker announces an exact reproduction of early Northwest home life on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition grounds. His team Oxen and "Cave" will help prepare the site with cubing and a pioneer village including a 1856 blockhouse replica and a 50 year old schoolhouse. Relics from Oregon and California will be displayed, with spinning, looms, melodeons, and periodic barbecues for visitors. A big pioneer nostalgia exhibit aims to attract newspapers and relics from old Oregon families.
Miss Gladys Williams a St Louis county teacher told at a county teachers meeting how the word dear transformed a dull pupil into a class leader. An initially hopeless boy heard dear and grew proud seeking further praise, inspiring his brother then excelling, with two brothers becoming top students.
A Washington report says paper will be made from cotton stalks, a by last unused by-product. An Atlanta, Georgia company with $500,000 capital has formed to pursue the project, with fiber obtainable at about 14 dollars per ton.
The State Journal announces a third annual Bargain Week offering full year 1909 subscriptions at 3 dollars without Sunday or 4 dollars with Sunday, valid December 21 to 28. New subscriptions commence January 1, 1909 and run to January 1, 1910 at the reduced rates. The paper highlights advance payment, cost savings from mail delivery, and no liquor or questionable ads, inviting readers to send payment.
A playful portrait of Santa Claus noting his age birthplace and parents are unknown he is a bachelor with a religious aura who gives more to the rich than the poor and avoids politics He appears fat and jolly each Christmas and prefers children over animals though reindeer are excluded from his generosity The piece ends with a whimsical line about his future once children vanish.
Consul General William Michael of Calcutta quotes Dr. Harold Mann arguing Europeans and Americans in India do not need liquors. He asserts abstention from alcohol and vinous beverages, proper dress, weather prep, moderation in food, boiled water, and rest promote health and reduce fevers, with vaccination aiding immunity.
A printed caption defines bachelor as a man who has no wife nor wants no wife nor cant get no wife. The joke plays on double negatives to poke fun at the term bachelor as applied to single men.
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