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Newspaper
Sandersville Herald
Location
Sandersville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
3
Excerpt blends poetical meditation on duty and learning with a narrative fragment from Dublin University Magazine and Chicago News. A pink bows scene shows two girls escaping to play while defying homework and future career plans.
Victoria laments exile row and notes from Jimmie Gates about gum and mischief at school. Gladys consoles and schemes to dodge punishment while dodging accusations of snitching as they argue over seating, teachers, and classmates.
Vice-Consul H H Byington transmits H M Haigh’s Bari report on southern Italian olive culture. Growers rarely mill locally. olives sold on trees to speculators. Temolo price ranges 0.68–1.16 francs. picking costs about 4 per ton. Sanse waste used to produce green sulphur oil for soap and silk dyeing. Italy’s olive oil industry tied to a Bari based trust. new groves on mountain slopes yield good oil.
Mrs. Jenkins seeks Mrs. Brady amid rumors and finds her under bonds to keep the peace after threatening her husband. The magistrate warned she would face a 40 shilling fine if she confronts him again, while Brady claims she works hard to save the money.
E W Scripture argues that many scholars including Crookes Hyslop and Milesi are credulous about spiritualist claims. He cites abuses by mediums, telepathy, clairvoyance and levitations as showcases of clever tricks. He notes a few believers lack scientific worth and warns professors are easy marks for swindlers.
Consular Clerk Constantine M. Carafa reports Greece has 865 miles of steam railways with a total capitalization of 42,215,209 dollars. Private ownership remains, with government permission and a rail department supervise and regulate rates and details, while state rights include potential purchase after set periods. The first line Athens to Piraeus began in 1869 and shifted from steam to electricity about two years ago.
At the Georgia Tax Officers Association annual meeting in Columbus resolutions urged the legislature to appoint boards of tax assessors in every county. Other items note pension reform pleas, a murder bound over, land grants, fertiliser tax reports, a Crisp County warehouse purchase, bauxite discovered in Wilkinson County, an embezzlement plea in Savannah, a planned Georgia state fair in Atlanta, road work on the Georgia and Florida railroad, March 14 tax valuation day, convicts lease issues, and related state affairs.
An explosion of gas in the basement of the Natchez Drug company building in Natchez Mississippi caused eight deaths and multiple injuries. The blast tore the rear wall, toppled a neighboring tenement, and fire from the wreckage spread to eighteen nearby houses, seven of which were destroyed.
The senate received the nomination of Rix M. Robinson to be postmaster at Pensacola Florida to succeed Northup who was rejected by the senate a year ago Northup has continued in office prompting a senate inquiry and an official explanation that his continuance was an oversight.
A bill of great importance to tobacco interests was passed by the house on Saturday. It provides for removal of the tax on leaf tobacco when bought by storekeepers or dealers and sold to consumers and allows storekeepers to handle it as any commodity without tax, while repealing certain internal revenue rules affecting growers. A pound box of candy will win a girl quicker than a 300 line poem.
President Roosevelt addresses delegates at the International Congress on the Welfare of the Child gathered at the White House. He declares the mother the supreme national asset and calls for practical schooling to prepare both boys for life work and girls for traditional womanhood roles.
The Southern Express Company bans jug liquor shipments in their cars amid a looming embargo. Officials cite rising claims and breakage as the reason, with rush orders aimed at supplying Savannah before the rule takes effect.
A Washington dispatch reports the Senate on Tuesday ratified six of ten treaties negotiated at The Hague conference. The conventions adopted were those to which no opposition had been offered, marking a non opposed set of international agreements.
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