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Newspaper
Sandersville Herald
Location
Sandersville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
9
A merchant in ancient Baghdad hoards wealth and neglects the hungry and needy. His heart hardens as his gold seems to vanish, replaced by a handful of leaves he eyes in fear. The tale warns that generous deeds return as true wealth to the givers.
Bu Gidri a Berber who serves at the British consulate in Fez rides to Tangier with his pacing pony to bury his deceased son. He travels through heat and peril, crosses rivers, and reaches a village cemetery where he places the little bundle in a grave before returning to Fez, his duty done.
A Pearson's Weekly piece recounts an odd ancient crime test where a prisoner faced a church altar ritual with blessed bread and cheese. If the condemned swallowed without choking he was freed. if not he faced death, leaving many innocent victims over time.
Gilbert M. Sims of Donegal township Washington county claims the belt as champion bee hunter of western Pennsylvania. He has studied bees since age 15 and found 168 bee trees, including 13 in Ohio county West Virginia 21 in Brooke county West Virginia and 74 in Washington county. In his sixty sixth year he located and captured seven trees last summer.
Georgia reports a call by President O Connell of the Georgia State Federation of Labor for the annual session in Macon on June 17. The piece also covers a statewide plea for lunacy to stay the execution of Porter Cooper, railroad news, a judge's death, and various agricultural and legislative updates across the state.
The Pensacola Florida streetcar strike has eased into a test of endurance as regular service resumes with strikebreakers at the controls. Striking workers urge residents to avoid the cars while continuing to operate motor cars and trucks fitted with seats for those reliant on the service.
Kuhn Loeb and the Rothschilds announce a New York deal to take a $40,000,000 forty year four per cent bond issue of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The sale uses a 1873 authorization of $100,000,000 with about $12,500,000 outstanding.
Returns from Tuesday's Louisiana state election show the Democratic ticket led by J. Y. Sanders has been elected governor.
In Pensacola, Fla an injunction restrains Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees and allies from interfering with car operations after a mob attack. Conductor G Hoffman was mortally wounded in a trolley assault amid ongoing turmoil as a bystander W L Wittich Jr was shot at but escaped unharmed.
More than 150 men have had their citizenship rights revoked by Chicago circuit and superior courts amid wartime actions against anarchists. Judge Pinckney canceled fifty-five naturalizations for suspected anarchist ties, while Judge Ball stripped ninety-nine for oath violations. Twenty-five similar cases remain to be heard.
The Associated Press gathered for its annual meeting at the Waldorf Astoria New York noting large attendance. The key action was a formal address urging President Roosevelt and Congress to grant immediate relief from the exactions of a combine of paper makers.
Remarks from Uniontown Pennsylvania indicate rapid progress on three new coke plants by the H. C. Frick Company in the Connellsville region. Projected cost reaches multiple millions.
A board of food and drug inspectors with approval from Secretary Wilson restricts the term mocha to coffee grown in the Yemen region north and east of Hedge. The ruling aims to regulate market labeling and protect the term from misleading use.
A massive landslide engulfs the little Ontario town of Notre Dame de Salette along the Lievre River. About half the hamlet is buried under rock and earth, with at least thirty residents confirmed dead amid a stranded, telegraphless settlement.
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