01 Aug 1907
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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
1
CHAS. A. SCOTT vice president and Orange cashier promotes Tower enterprises with conservative banking. The ad proclaims the bank as the Financial Bureau of Information for Orange County and offers four percent interest on time deposits with deposits starting at one dollar.
A poem and prose narrative contrast Pat and a younger speaker as they claim halves of a rural domain and wealth. Pat controls water power, livestock, crops, and land while the speaker cherishes sky and light, expressing concern money cannot buy these joys. The tale shifts to a young woman in the city seeking work, facing hardship, and reuniting with Fred who offers home and stability.
A young woman named Amy comes to Atlanta to pursue a business career. Her parents worry about her leaving home and seek to protect her. She recalls declining suitor Fred, who teaches winter schools and runs summer farms, and weighs independence against love.
A stranger observes two weary tramps named Tired Tim and partner waiting in the sun for fortune. They admit hunger and fatigue and propose rolling dice to decide who must beg from a nearby farmhouse after hoping an earthquake will shake the dice box.
The Duchess of Argyll painted the inn sign at Rose Neath on the Clyde to pass time. She is a well known artist with a Kensington Palace studio and praised for sculpting skill by the late Sir Edgar Boehm. Florida bans sponge diving to protect beds.
Green food for young chicks is prepared from oats using a shallow box and daily sprinkling of water to sprout tender greens. Milking advice covers regular frequent milking for goats and children's help, plus breeding age and rough range guidance. Also notes the value of a well stocked tool house to improve farm work and reduce wasted time.
Farmers rush to purchase heavy draft brood mares at the Chicago stock yards with prices from two to two fifty dollars for sound animals. A Shire mare sold for 150 dollars despite injuries, highlighting bets on breeding value and care to yield robust foals yearly. Sugar used to revive tired horses reported from France aiding National Military College service during rainy, strenuous seasons.
A military surgeon reports sugar fed to animals in large doses restored fatigue and strength, with many previously useless creatures recovering. The Bob White is praised for consuming weed seeds and destroying crop pests, while urging protection. Pruning fruit trees guides and timing, with summer pruning boosting fruiting and winter pruning promoting growth. England reports 30,000 people with a missing limb.
An inventor Lieut. H. Ekelund of Jonkopin Sweden claims peat powder can supply heat to forge steel without coal. An Austrian surgeon favors the hard palate as a unique criminal identifier. A Swiss engineer unveils a folding fire escape with connected ladders tested by Vienna fire brigades.
The United States coal output in 1906 reached 414,039,581 short tons valued at 512,610,774 dollars, up 5 percent in quantity and 7 percent in value from 1905. West Virginia moved to second in state production behind Pennsylvania, following strikes in Illinois during April and part of May over wage scales.
The passage argues imagination as the seed of major business successes, with calculation, energy, and hustling pushing a money making scheme forward but imagination initiates the idea. It reflects on imagination as the primary driver behind enduring ventures.
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