From 1908 to 1988 the ferry served as the primary transport between the island of Honshū and the northern island of Hokkaidō.

In 1908 the church received its first warm air heating system, which did not work well due to heat losses in long air ducts, and heated only the eastern and northern sanctuaries.

In northern Hokkaidō, the women of the Ainu people performed a crane dance that was captured in 1908 in a photograph by Arnold Genthe.

It was built on the site of the grounds of the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition and close to the White City Stadium and has given its name to the northern part of Shepherds Bush which is now better known as White City.

In 1908, Pernier found the Phaistos disc at the basements of the northern group of the palace.

Caroline Astor spent her last several years suffering from periodic dementia, and she died at age 78 in 1908 and was interred in the Trinity Church Cemetery located in the far northern section of Manhattan.

* P. p. caspica Witherby, 1908 – Azerbaijan and northern Iran.

After returning to Argentina in 1908, Leloir lived together with his eight siblings on their family's extensive property El Tuyú that his grandparents had purchased after their immigration from the Basque Country of northern Spain: El Tuyú comprises 400 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of rocky land that along the coastline from San Clemente del Tuyú to Mar de Ajó which has since become a popular tourist attraction.

* Kantōgun ( often known as the " Kwantung Army ") originated as the division-level garrison of a Japanese colony in northeast China, in 1908 ; it remained in northern China until the end of World War II.

Because of the difficulty of managing such a large tract of land, the northern portion was reassigned to Trinity National Forest, then the final boundaries of the new Stony Creek forest were drawn and was signed into law by executive order of the president on July 2, 1908 and renamed the California National Forest.

The Edersee Dam is a hydroelectric dam constructed between 1908 and 1914 across the Eder river, near the small town of Waldeck in northern Hesse, Germany.

Harvey first arrived in Canada in 1908 where he worked as a surveyor in northern Alberta and High River.

In 1908, Henry Richardson, an English surveyor laid out the town and named it Margate after another seaside resort on the northern coast of the county of Kent, in the United Kingdom.

The Chicago Lake Shore and South Bend Railroad ( CLS & SB ) began serving northern Indiana in 1908.

Anderson participated in the Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition which explored Alaska and the northern Yukon from 1908 to 1912 and was part of the Canadian Arctic Expedition led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson from 1913 to 1916.

Daniel William Fry was born on July 19, 1908 near a small steamboat landing on the Mississippi River called Verdon Township in the northern part of Aitkin County, Minnesota to Fred Nelson Fry and Clara Jane Baehr.

The Inland Line () is a railway line between Kristinehamn and Gällivare in Sweden It runs through the central parts of northern Sweden, and was built between 1908 and 1937.

Forrest County was carved out of the western portion of Perry County in 1908.

v. ( 1908 ), has been recognized by Eduard Meyer, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Georg Busolt as a portion of the Hellenics.

The parkway hosted races on its first open portion in 1908 and on the full road in 1909 and 1910, but an accident in the latter year, killing four with additional injuries, caused the New York Legislature to ban racing except on race tracks, ending the parkway's career as a racing road.

Formed in 1908 the Federal Bureau of Investigation began as an entity which could investigate and enforce specific federal laws as an investigative and " law enforcement agency " in the United States ; this, however, has constituted only a small portion of overall policing activity.

In 1908 the British constructed a fence in a portion claimed to be the British half of the neutral territory.

A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines in South East London, including the southern portion of the East London Line

File: Bricklayers Arms & New Cross, Midhurst RJD 91. jpg | A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines in South East London, including the southern portion of the East London Line

A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines in South East London, including the southern portion of the East London Line

Two years later, in 1908, the bank acquired Fratelli Pasquali, a bank in Chiasso, Switzerland, its first representation in the Italian-speaking portion of the country.

The central portion of the present building on Central Park West was completed in 1908, to designs by architects York and Sawyer, who were known for their bank designs.

This designation was dropped after the administrative transition to the National Forests on March 4, 1907. the Sequoia National Forest on July 1, 1908 Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks were established from this south portion of Sierra National Forest.

In 1908, parimutuel betting machines were introduced as gambling began to be less controversial again, and the wagering portion of the track's business became more profitable.

In 1991, the Washington State Parks system acquired the right-of-way and established the Columbia Plateau Trail State Park This park is a ,-long rail-bed trail that traces that portion of the 1908 route of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad between Cheney and Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River.

Applying the same techniques ( which involved gradual immunization of horses and sheep by administering small doses of venoms, and then extracting, purifying and freeze-drying the antibody portion from the blood of injected animals ), Vital Brazil and his coworkers were able to discover the first sera against two species of scorpions ' ( 1908 ) and spiders ' ( 1925 ) venoms.

It was only allowed two minutes to do this ( reduced to a single minute in 1908 ), and the Felixstowe portion continued on its way just three minutes later.

Sequoia National Forest was established on July 1, 1908 from a portion of Sierra Forest Reserve.

Formerly a station and passing track on the CPR, this portion of the line from Bala to Sudbury was opened to traffic June 15, 1908.

In 1908, the boarding portion of the school was closed, and by September 1912, the high school served 379 boys.

Kaniksu National Forest was established on July 1, 1908 from a portion of Priest River National Forest.

The portion from Harriman to Otisville was built in 1904 – 1908 as a low-level freight bypass named the Graham Line.

On July 1, 1908 a portion of Diamond Mountain National Forest was added.

", he played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, during which he captained England, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, the Gentlemen, MCC, the United South of England Eleven and several other teams.

With the demise of London County as a first-class team, the number of Grace's appearances dwindled over the next four seasons until he called it a day in 1908.

* The current Lafayette County Courthouse built in 1908.

* The Marion County Republican ( 1908 – 1909 )

In the presidential election of 1908 Winkler County supported William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate.

* 1908 Current Hays County Courthouse in San Marcos erected.

Stark County received a minor boundary change in 1908 when Dunn County was formally organized.

Sheridan County was formed by the 1872 – 1873 territorial legislature but was attached to McLean County for judicial purposes until the 1908 general election, when voters decided to split Sheridan from McLean County entirely.

The name was then brought back in the 1908 general election under a proposal to divide Ward County.

At the November 3, 1908, general election, a vote was held in Ward County on whether to recreate Mountrail with different boundaries.

However, Clark County, Nevada, including Las Vegas, was separated from Lincoln County effective July 1, 1908, by act of the Nevada Legislature.

Morrill County was formed in 1908 " carved out of Cheyenne County ".

The grounds once housed a football ground, which hosted the FA Cup final from 1895 to 1914 as well as London County Cricket Club games from 1900 to 1908, when they folded, and Crystal Palace F. C.

That building burned in 1907, and the fourth and current Warren County courthouse was completed on the same site in 1908 at a cost of $ 115, 000.

* Forsyth County News, Your " Hometown Paper " Since 1908

In 1908, the southern tip of Jefferson County was transferred to Park County, reducing Jefferson County to its present length of.