19 Jul 1907
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1907
Page
1
The term impertinent originated as not belonging to, with Wycliffe noting many in its world were impertinent to earthly lords meaning lacking inesters. Shakespeare later shifted sense to irrelevant, and about two centuries ago it was defined as absurd or silly.
A Malay archipelago device uses two necked bottles and a sand timer with a dozen notched rods to mark hours, overseen by an attendant who signals time. In Paris the municipal council ends the post of organiser of funeral pomp, a figures in three cornered hat and city colors.
The funeral honored a woman who served four years in one Lincolnshire family as a nurse. Her pallbearers were the four sons she nursed, each now heads of large families. A Washington Star quote imagines a millionaire choosing Europe over a palace.
In appointing his son Lord Bruce as private secretary, the earl of Elgin mirrors a Gladstone precedent set in 1889 when William Gladstone named Ferhart Gladstone to a similar post at age 20.
A Belgian cavalry expert estimates the world horse population at about 1 000 0000. He cites 22 000 000 in Russia and notes Germany and Austria-Hungary each exceed the British Isles, where around 6 000 000 are counted.
An old text notes road dust as a plague and cites causes of heart trouble: underwork mainly, then overwork, with physical stress on athletes and predisposed children. A health board study of about 10 000 primary school children links physical defects to insufficient nutrition and lung and heart ailments, highlighting vision issues.
A sixpence was recovered from the stomach of a bullock slaughtered recently by a Yarmouth England butcher. The coin’s finding occurred at the bullock’s meat processing, raising curiosity about the animal’s fate and prior history.
The government is called to subsidize 43 new railroad lines in Canada at a total cost of $9,220,000 to cover 2,885 ralles. The note cites limits on arts not their powers and quotes Mme. De Stal on genius and fitness.
County records list numerous allowed bills for salaries, jail guards, pauper aid, election officials, court interpreters, repairs, gallows frame work, pauper burial, supplies, and misc. expenses. Includes bond approval for D Disinger as inspector of weights and measures. continues on page 2.
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