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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1908
Page
3
Mrs H F Budke of LeSueur Minnesota describes her two month old daughter’s severe eczema. After five months with worsening sores the family tried Cutiura Remedies and within two months the child’s skin cleared completely. No recurrence reported as of April May 1907.
The Methodist Episcopal Church property in this country is valued at about 187 million dollars with an outstanding indebtedness of 12.13 million dollars. The figures reflect the church's financial position and total assets against liabilities.
A damaged OCR item mixes medical claims and curiosities saying a product guarantees cures, mentions brain size comparisons, and notes unrelated medical observations. The text reads like a jumbled 19th century advertisement with misprints and unclear context.
An old catalog style advertisement touts vegetable and flower seeds with prices and percentages. It mentions seeds such as Berlin er Earliest Cauliflower and 13 Day Radish with small print offers, including a 12c to 6c price range and a note about shipments from A. Saiser Co. in La Crosse Wisconsin. The text also briefly notes the Persian Gulf region as the hottest area.
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Kase a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cures retin Bunions Swollen Hot Nails and Ingrowing Toes. Nails are by all dead shotest costs Sample yes Address Atena8 Olmsted LeRoy N
A German mechanic builds the world’s smallest electric motor used as a scarf pin. It runs on a battery in his pocket and remains in constant operation.
Readers learn Hall's Catarrh Cure is advertised as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease claimed to cure by acting on mucous surfaces. The ad offers 100 dollar reward for any case it fails to save and promotes related Hall's pills for constipation with testimonials and Toledo Ohio address.
The excerpt argues that blindness does not erase our value or capacity for good. It asserts that service, friendship, humor, imagination, and wisdom remain accessible, with a divine inner will guiding fate toward spiritual riches and resilience.
Mrs. Thos. Dunn of 153 Wins 8t Columbus Ohio testifies that ten years of backache left her exhausted and nervous until Dean's Kidney Pills provided quick relief and a permanent cure. She praises the remedy and notes it is sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A New York Sun piece surveys British belief in ghosts with the Gray Woman of Windsor as a central figure, noting royal fear and Windsor Castle hauntings. It recounts Queen Victoria, Edward VII, and Victoria's dread, plus a dramatic car chase where Prince Zika’s motorist lover drives recklessly and the chauffeur kills himself after a fatal plunge.
Bucharest reports a sensational love triangle centering on Prince Zika of a noble Romanian family. Two months ago in Milan he engaged an American chauffeur named William Harver, a handsome man about thirty, who has fallen deeply in love.
A Kellogg Durland encounter with a Manchuria veteran leads to a tale of soldiers preferring peace to fighting. Tolstoy’s letters urged quitting war, and a Red Cross nurse recalls a captain wounded while seeking shelter in a ravine after a shell exploded nearby.
On the Seine bridges in Paris a beggar is seen by many as a living symbol of the city. A sister notices a blind man with a cap and an outstretched hand, reads his coat and discovers the name Pierre Du Pont. She learns the humbled figure is her brother and questions him about their kin.
A blind man on a wind swept bridge reconnected with a sister after years believed dead. Police arrested him for obstructing traffic and seized his loyal dog. The next day he was released and asked for his dog, which authorities said was destroyed. He remains on the bridge, cheered only by occasional visits from his sister.
A Copenhagen based society of about 2000 people leads a global campaign to exterminate rats. The plan calls on civilized nations to fund the effort and deploy shooting trapping and poisoning methods with rewards on rat heads.
An oculist from Baltimore tests a new shotgun in reed bird marshes near Washington. He finds the left hand barrel hits, while the other barrel misses. A test with a target shows one barrel true and the other misaligned, prompting the remark that the gun has strabismus with astigmatism.
The London Practical Teacher laments that at least 14 000 Berlin youths rely on bread and coffee as their only home meals. The piece links this hardship to broader social failings in great population centers and calls for reflection on urban life and welfare.
Monday morning a rent collector visits Mrs McPherson's house. Johnny explains his parents are out and asks to call on Friday. He adds they plan to leave on Thursday, leaving the reason unclear. The scene is a light anecdote from Argonaut.
The Nebraska State Journal extols a nourishing breakfast of wheats drizzled with maple syrup. It praises the palatability and even suggests a second helping would improve it as a suggested menu for cold weather mornings.
The New York Press notes that a large transatlantic liner with a full mail carries about 300,000 letters and 400 sacks of newspapers to London alone, plus additional consignments for other destinations.
Bakers test oven heat by casting flour to see browning. If the flour browns quickly the oven is ready for use, a quick oven method cited by the New York Press.
A Harlesden undertaker's shop displays a gravestone advertisement reading You may telephone from here. The London Daily Mail notes the cheeky line as a marketing stunt.
A Columbus Ohio reader Mrs E Hanson at 304 EK Long St writes Mrs Pinkham praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from nervousness headaches and fatigue during the Change of Life. She says she can resume her own work and will tell friends of the benefit.
An advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a standard treatment for female ailments. It claims the remedy cures displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities pains and other related symptoms and invites readers to write Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for advice.
A brief ode to the rose as the American symbol. Mrs. John Lane praises the sturdy beauty of the American Beauty rose, noting its cost, splendor, and unromantic practicality as the national flower.
The fragment advertises headache causes linking October to May with voids as frequent causes. It touts Laxative Bromo Quinine as a remedy and cites EK W Grove on box. It mentions England's high coal use and references Garfield Tea and a British Museum envelope as curiosities.
An old time advertisement touts Brown's Bronchial Traches as a cure for coughs claiming quick relief. It notes girls reach peak growth around fifteen and boys at seventeen and promotes Woolford's Sanitary Lotion promising cure in 30 minutes with druggists selling both.
In Perth Scotland a convivial man named Jamie was found at the foot of an outside stair. Asked if he fell and if he was coming down he answered Aye I fell down but I was coming down whether or no. The remark conveys resignation in a quip from Bellman.
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