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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1909
Page
4
An advertisement invites readers suffering from frequent urination, back pain, constipation, biliousness, or other kidney or liver problems to send their name and address to Dr. David Kennedy's Sons in Rondout for a free sample of David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. It promises free mail and a complete medical treatise on kidney and liver issues.
The Hedjaz Railway linking Damascus and Medina is praised as a sacred Turkish project with corruption-free pledge. At the inauguration Grand Mufti of Damascus and Ali Kiamil spoke on three events: Medina pilgrimage, railway opening, and the Khalif’s constitutional anniversary. The electric plant lighted the Prophet’s tomb mosque as fireworks illuminated Medina’s sacred sites.
Tit-Bits recounts escapes of political prisoners from Russia arriving in London. A Warsaw coup escape involved a ten man transfer that vanished, with a prison van and guard details later found on city outskirts. Another Siberian inmate hid in a pickled cabbage barrel to reach safety in the east end.
A herd of about five hundred thousand caribou, described as likely the largest on earth, is trekking across Yukon terrain. Guided by Chris Williams and others arriving at Dawson from LaDue Valley, the herd shifts winter quarters from Sixty Mile Creek toward the Na River, spanning eighteen to twenty miles.
Leslie is captured after a fall in a heath and finds himself confined by a deaf mute shepherd in a rough hut. The mute keeper shows kindness, hides him from searchers, and a plan to contact his wife unfolds with the shepherd ferrying signals and money to the village. The scene ends with uncertainty as the note delivery remains unresolved.
Horwood of the Leicester Museum explains that birds eggs show protective resemblance. White eggs come from hole nesters in dark sites while ground nesters favor olive green or brown ground colors. Heather and sand colored eggs mimic their surroundings for grouse ptarmigan plover tern and lapwing and young chicks share these protective hues.
A franchise reform bill passed Sweden’s two parliamentary chambers after two years in debate at Stockholm. The first chamber approved 119 to 22 and the second 153 to 43 with the Social Democrats in the minority. The reform adopts proportional representation for both chambers and universal suffrage for the second chamber, with election qualifications lowered to include those earning up to $1500 annually.
A collection of old household hacks covers reinforcing husbands trousers by sewing inside hat felts, thawing frozen water pipes with unslaked lime cloth, and reviving chiffon using Parisian dye bags. The notes offer practical, era specific advice from the Boston Post and Indianapolis News.
Sixty carloads of Canadian made harvest ing machinery ordered for Bix shat Native Bromo? signature of E W Grove. Also mentions a Japanese sword of emperors about 800 B C and a fictional anecdote about a young Englishman in Devil's Valley with a bath habit.
A New York Tribune piece surveys common servant superstitions held by housekeepers. Signs include signs of long tenure, firings at dawn, Friday hires predicting smashed china, and Friday hires predicting chaos, along with cues from a servant’s scars, finger shape, hair, and calling you lady.
A set of old kitchen directions describes Spanish onion soup with butter sugar and white stock served on toast. It also provides recipes for White Loaf Cake Sponge Cake and notes on beating mixing baking and flavoring steps with details on eggs milk flour sugar butter and leavening agents.
A Washington woman claims coffee caused health problems including rheumatic attacks and tooth decay in children. After quitting coffee and using Postum for six months she reports full health recovery, better sleep, and disappearance of rheumatism. The letter from Postum Co. promotes its product and refers readers to The Road to Wellville.
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