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Newspaper
Sandersville Herald
Location
Sandersville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
2
A reflection on Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem Miniver Cheevy from Scribner’s, describing a man born too late who longs for medieval glory, laments modern life, and chases unfulfilled romantic ideals.
In a cluttered house two twins Faye and Fern play hide and seek as a storeroom mystery unfolds. A hidden mirror reveals the truth about their sighting of the storeroom tiger carving and a lesson on honesty ends with the family planning four monkeys reminding each other to think no evil.
A Washington Post item lampoons sticky bureau drawers and predicts a Himalayan fortune for the furniture maker who produces a bureau with drawers that open and close smoothly. It narrates a tale of a man, tested by a stubborn drawer, who destroys a bureau in a fit of temper and must move.
A humorous quip contrasts optimism and pessimism in Harper's Weekly. An optimist sees ripe times while a pessimist sees rotten times, delivered in a playful exchange.
Reflections on virtue and character drawn from Sentence Sermons. The piece cites lines about truth, kindness, forgiveness, and self inquiry, urging personal responsibility and communal betterment as guiding religious ethics.
A Flatdweller complains of a fresh ceiling stain from a leaky steam radiator and urges proper radiator maintenance. Neighbors debate radiator damage versus plasterer revenue while emphasizing mutual consideration among residents.
In La Haye Malherbe Normandy a bride and groom faced a delay when a village registrar revealed the bride’s birth had been misregistered as a boy. Officials insisted on correcting the record before authorizing the marriage, delaying the ceremony amid bureaucratic red tape.
Magistrate-Pat Murphy reports you were fighting. Murphy claims he wore a clean white shirt and started a small altercation to borrow a coat, then they left to show it. The exchange reflects a light, humorous court moment from Tid-Bits.
A Savannah grand jury returned sixteen indictments naming forty individuals linked to locker clubs. Also reported were the formation of a Grand Army of the Republic branch at St George with 25 members, and other state news including college milestones and railroad actions.
A quarrel among workers at the Congleton Williams lumber camp on Rose Creek near Evelynn Kentucky led to a gunfight. John Hamilton James Bowles Richard Spicer and George Frazier were killed while a fourth man was mortally wounded. The dispute arose from a quarrel between the children of Bowles and Frazier and those of Spicer and Hamilton. The men used revolvers as the conflict escalated.
Advices from Lisbon say the motive behind the assassination of King Carlos and Prince Luiz may never be fully understood. The new government prefers to view the crime as the act of individuals driven by political passions, with republicans hoping to avoid blame.
A massive blaze raged 9 am to 1 pm destroying 308 buildings across 55 acres in Tampa's northeastern section between Twelfth and Michigan avenues and Sixteenth to Twentieth streets. Four large cigar factories and many homes were lost, with total damage about 600000 dollars and one Cuban woman dead.
Andrew Hamilton longtime counsel to New York Life and other insurers and leader in insurance litigation was found dead in his New York City residence on Sunday morning. He managed the Yellow Dog Fund for insurers and supervised insurance legislative matters nationwide and in Canada.
The arraigned defendant Giuseppe Allo pleaded not guilty to murder in Denver Colorado on a Saturday session. Judge Whitmore adjourned the trial date to Monday March 9. Peter Bossie WaCut was dismissed as interpreter due to a stated anarchist affiliation.
Anthony Schultz and three children Nellie Joseph and May perished in a blaze that consumed their Depew home on Sunday. Mrs Schultz and the couple’s two youngest children were rescued from the fire.
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