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Newspaper
North Platte Semi Weekly Tribune
Location
North Platte, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1908
Page
2
The article describes elephant taming through quiet handling, decoys, and gradual trust. Tamed elephants assist heavy labor in construction, transport, and moving stone, showing judgment and adaptability. It contrasts elephant sagacity with horse work and notes training steps from captivity to field use.
A busy lawyer recalls a visiting middle aged man who credits a firm habit for success in law. The visitor relays a professor's blunt counsel that punctuality and long hours, arriving early and staying late, beat talent wealth or status. The advice proves effective for the speaker.
An evocative fragment describes gray barn and meadow under rain, with silver threads of rain and a warm haymow. The poem laments life and loss yet arouses a wish to make Earth a home, ending with a childlike vow of warmth and purity.
In Asnington Dr. W C Woodward leads a campaign to regulate paid laundering. All launderers must register with the health officer to aid inspections and curb unsanitary conditions in homes of the poor where laundering is done for hire. Licensing may follow and routine inspections would expand beyond lunchrooms.
The article portrays envoys labeled tightwads as Washington hosts lavishly spend on ambassadors and their entourages. It notes James Bryce with a $60,000 annual package and the British embassy’s extravagant hospitality, contrasting French and Italian ambassadors' salaries and social prominence amid calls for reform.
The preliminary report of the Internal Revenue Commissioner notes a drop in whisky and ardent spirits consumption and a rise in beer. For the year ended June 30, revenue from whisky declined by 15.8 million while beer revenue rose by about 200 thousand, with total internal revenue across all sources at 251.7 million, down 17.9 million from the prior year.
Profile of Carrie Babcock Sherman wife of Vice Presidential candidate James Sherman. Describes her as a brilliant conversationalist with keen intellect and central in Washington circles. Notes Utica home, gardens, hospitality, family ties, and social influence among Republicans. mentions upcoming season in Washington and extended family details.
The United States plans to bring top investigators from Great Britain Germany and Belgium to assist in safe mining. The US Geological Survey will run an experimental mine in Pittsburgh testing explosives marked permissible while Congress funded 150000 dollars for this effort.
Thomas A. Daly, the Philadelphia poet, recalls a Bohemian scene at Peanut Street where locals gather in a resort. He notes a waiter scribbling odd phrases on a slate as patrons drink beer and the talk turns to curious terms like Old Shoes and Black Underwear, with Daly ponderous about their meaning.
The article argues Peruna contains two types of remedies: standard catarrh remedies and proven tonics. It states chronic catarrh is common across nose throat lungs stomach and other organs and contends Peruna’s ingredients each have reputations in treating catarrh or acting as tonics. It notes Peruna’s label lists principal active constituents for scrutiny.
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