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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1908
Page
3
The article describes a fashionable New York City lingerie blouse for young women featuring an Empire silhouette, lace edging, and a deep girdle. It highlights options for garniture from filet lace to all over lace or silk, plus variations in embroidery, soutache, and balls. The design emphasizes a seamless back closure with a single-piece waist and lining.
A detailed description of a girls gown featuring porcelain blue chiffon voile, taffeta trim, and appliqué. It notes a one-piece over-blouse with Japanese sleeves, a founda tion girdle, and draped second layer. It specifies material needs for sixteen year size and options for lining. The neck is finished with a pretty shaped collar.
New parasols keep linen and lace coverings similar to before but introduce revised handles. The latest designs resemble plain polished walking sticks, featuring a cap in gold, silver, or ivory with potential monogram engraving.
A simple luncheon idea using baking powder biscuits baked hollowed shells filled with creamed fish and butter. Each biscuit shell is lined with butter, filled with creamed fish such as limon, topped with extra cream and a parsley sprig for garnish.
A Pittsburg Press recipe combines half a pound of cold veal with half a pound of boiled ham. Mix in parsley bread crumbs lemon peel mace salt pepper eggs and cream to form a loaf. Bake half an hour and brush with egg. Serve with veal relish and orange slices filled with pear preserves.
A physician specializing in stomach and intestinal ailments recommends fresh apples with salt after every meal as a superior aid to digestion. He says apples eaten cooked or fresh improve digestion, prevent indigestion, and can replace sweets in tea or light meals, especially in summer.
Practical household hints cover frost prevention on windows rubbing alcohol antiseptic chair care waxing with white or egg cloth scorch repair using a silver coin velvet refreshing crepe cleansing scalp with corn meal ammonia in gloves and enamel pans cane chair restoration muslin curtains as air filters advise avoiding wet ironing and not dressing or ironing curtains
Paris artist M. Ziem recalls Chopin's sudden inspiration amid a Bohemian gathering at his studio. A skeleton under a curtain teased a mood before Chopin rushed to the piano and improvised the famous Funeral March, leaving friends moved and silent with awe.
A women only sanitarium housed a secret museum of drinking devices once used by female dipsomaniacs. Items included a clock with a hidden half pint, a muff with a rubber flask, a baby bottle mouthpiece, alcohol hidden in bonbons and a fan, purses, a prayer book, and a muff with a round flask. The rate was $125 weekly.
The elderly drummer known as B Reed, noted for the initials as Christian names in his family, died in New York. His father, described as eccentric, named his children alphabetically from A onward, reaching M C and D Reed are said to survive their brother.
Steel box cars recently built will weigh about 3 000 pounds less than wooden cars of the same size and capacity, signaling a shift in railroad rolling stock design and efficiency.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female ailments including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and nervous prostration inviting sick women to write for advice. A separate note mentions a church building on Mahe island built of white coral blocks.
The fragment cites medical quackery and product pitches, noting October to May headaches from colds, Browno Quinine, E. W. Grove on a box, 25c, and Brown's Bronchial Troches for hoarseness. It mentions a world blind population statistic, an electrical plant in Nicaragua, and claims about a tea and Brazilian coconut palms longevity.
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