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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1908
Page
2
A Kansas City firm touts pecan orchards as highly profitable with tame trees bearing in five years and seedlings delaying to ten or more. Five-year-old orchards fetch about 500 per acre and ten-year-old ones about 1,000 per acre, with a listed 4,000 acre operation. The News seeks reader experiences while urging landowners to investigate planting pecans.
As the county seat it is the duty to provide a fair. Cotton warehouses could host events until the association can build on its own land. A county fair would draw crowds, boost commerce, inspire better farming and stock, and raise land values. Now is the time to plan.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes rising nervousness in America as pennant races intensify, asking how else fans can react to the recent high-stakes baseball chase.
The city highlights its 846 churches 884 asylums 511 public schools and 1400 charitable associations. It reports cent locomotives built daily and yearly hat production large enough to reach the Rockies.
The Galveston News quips that a woman who trots around by day and a woman who runs by night will eventually collide with a speed limit in time.
An old exchange proclaims that seizing opportunities builds competence while exploiting others yields wealth. The saying contrasts personal development with greed and warnings about unethical gain.
The abrupt end of the Bryan Roosevelt Haskell dispute prompted speculation about a restraining order. No official document was reported, but observers noted the sudden halt as if a court action had been taken.
The text urges establishing a commercial club in Prescott as a condition to advance plans, stressing the need for a formal business presence before progress can occur.
Notice of an election in LA County Arkansas on a November 1908 date to choose nine Presidential electors and one Congressman. Polling sites listed include Albany Falcon Laneburg Sutton Boughton Rosston Cale Emmet Morris Hatley s Store Glenville Court House Kiof P Hall Bodeaw Brisbane Lackland Wire Road School House Willisville Pleasant Hill Bluff City and Union. Sheriff E D Hood subscribes the proclamation on a mid October Sunday in 1908.
A New York broker's office tale shows a young man asking for a raise, claiming to do two men's work and meet many unseen demands. The boss presses him about personal expenses and dryly warns that a $15 weekly raise might invite larger demands if the other matters are as appealing as the Waldorf companion.
The Gome ro of the Canary Islands communicates by whistling with fingers and lips to convey speech. A Cameroon man uses a carved drum with two unequal surfaces to produce two notes. The drum, struck like a telegraph code, signals syllables of their language.
Dr James Augustus Henry Murray, famed editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, is knighted by King Edward on the king's recent birthday anniversary. Percy William Bunting, editor of the Contemporary Review, is noted as the source of the knighthood.
Prof. B. D. Campbell, director of University of Michigan chemical laboratories, lost his sight 18 years ago in an accident. He has risen to a high place in education and conducted original research of value in the chemistry of iron and cement.
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