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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
3
The General Demand for a simple pleasant liquid laxative is met by the California Fig Syrup Co with Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. Physicians approve its known components and gentle prompt action. Sold by leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
A fragmentary note references a metal point on a shoestring and a woman who devised the idea. The wording suggests a humorous or local story about invention and recognition within a community.
From October to May pois are the most frequent cause of headaches. Larabive and Bromo Quinine remove the cause. Grove on box. Tvem known Re lapidary has been found in the United States.
A quick remedy scene urges readers to ask druggists for Brown's Bronchial Traches to relieve a cough. The ad then touts Woolford's Sanitary Lotion claiming 64 beet sugar factories and 16 in the United States with a 30 minute itch cure, marketed as never failing.
Stephen Tasker of Philadelphia recalls a Labrador expedition with his wife and notes it was hardly an ideal pleasure trip for a quiet married couple. A widow asks a tombstone maker for a plate reading To My Husband and the stone ends with a pun on Slab.
A Gentlewoman reflection critiques modern excess in hospitality urging restraint in dinners concerts parties or dances to avoid accusations of failing to entertain friends on the same scale as the season.
The Rev John Schaeffer said to be the oldest minister in the world marks his 102nd birthday on November 22 1907 at his home near North Brenton Ohio.
An ad extols Grape-Nuts as ideal for aging eaters, stressing easy digestion and brain nerve nourishment. Testimonials claim long use, greater vigor at 74, a 92 year old customer, and improved regularity and mental clarity. The ad urges Postum as a companion drink and cites The Road to Wellville.
The article advises preserving dead game and poultry by rubbing powdered borax under wings legs and tail and placing some in the bird’s mouth to keep it sweet for weeks. It emphasizes direct application to maintain freshness.
Old stockings are saved and cut to about four inches above the feet to wear over shoes on slick days. This method reportedly helps both young and old prevent falls, as noted by the New York World.
The New Haven Register cautions that old lopsided brooms spread germs and fail to clean floors. It urges rinsing broom heads in water with a little ammonia and replacing damaged brooms for easier sweeping.
A New Haven Register tip praises bundling like items after laundry. Gather sheets pillow cases and other articles into separate piles tie with white tape and store them in drawers. Include sandalwood envelopes between packages to add a pleasant scent.
The Washington Star advises that the table be laid in the afternoon with extra plates on a side table. If no serving table exists, arrange a common one for the occasion. The hostess should not move about during dinner and the host must remain seated to preside.
Peep into a historical cookbook style set of recipes. Baked apples with nuts and citrus peel stewed to jelly like juice, date pie with milk and yolk custard, and suet dumplings boiled then served with maple syrup or jam. Leftovers fry well for breakfast.
Shepard Kollock of 44 Wallace Street Red Bank New Jersey aged 98 endured kidney trouble for 40 years with back pain nightly trips to the bed and heavy kidney secretions. After starting Deans Kidney Pills he reports complete relief and urges others to try the remedy sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Two well known doctors offer practical guidance for current cold air and epidemic conditions. They recommend fresh air and walking as part of daily routines to bolster health.
A distorted fragment notes Garfield Tea for sallow skin and headaches. It mentions Mountain Gullach in Switzerland at 7000 feet and cites HB Green's Sons of Atlanta as exclusive dropsy specialists with an offer advertised in another column.
Burlington Magazine notes that foreigners struggle to obtain representative English paintings. It argues English art yields vibrant hybrids and remains more fruitful than other nations in this regard.
J Cheney & Co., Toledo, offers one hundred dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The firm swears to the oath before a notary on December 6 and recommends the internal remedy that acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Requires testimonials and notes constipation remedy promos.
In a Travel Magazine excerpt the writer notes a grapevine at Hampton Court with a forty five inch girth stem and a branch one hundred fourteen feet long. Only about twelve hundred bunches reach maturity while excess are pinched off to improve quality. The vine sustains the glass house ceiling and the royal family alone enjoys its fruit.
Dorothy sees her father, a militia colonel, in brave array at the head of his regiment. She praises his handsome uniform and raised head but notes she wished for a drum to play. The remark comes from a Youth's Companion piece reflecting on pride and duty.
The Virginia plover makes a migratory feat, flying from North America to the coast of Brazil in one nonstop 15 hour voyage. It crosses the Atlantic at about four miles a minute, covering over 3000 miles.
A man with seven years of eczema on his hands reports little relief from many remedies until two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and one cake of Soap cured his condition. He notes a slate pencil could fit in the cracks before treatment. The testimonial is dated March 28 1907 and credits W H Dean Newark Del. Another note states typhoid fever causes nearly one third of deaths in the British army in India.
An Iowa farmer on 100 acres sold 3800 dollars worth of seed and produced 300 tons of hay with Billion Dollar Grass. The ad touts seed catalogs and exotic varieties promising high yields and cheap access to new crops, urging readers to mail 10 and 14 cent offers for samples and seed packages.
Paro Ointment promises cure for piles including blind bleeding or protruding types in six to fourteen days or money back. Price listed as 50c.
Mohammed reminded readers that the Koran was written in Arabic not a foreign language for scholars alone. The work shows uneven style with much prosaic text and occasional flashes of sublimity.
The passage questions how many American women in lonely homes long for happiness and to voice those words but suffer from organic derangement denying them. It states every interested woman should know that preparation for healthy maternity is accomplished by the use of
Mrs Maggie Gilmer of West Union South Carolina writes the remedy restored her health and made her a mother. Mrs Josephine Hall Bardstown Kentucky says the compound cured her female troubles and she is a proud mother. For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been a standard remedy for female ailments and has helped with displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and other symptoms. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
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