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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1908
Page
3
A correspondent notes medieval sport and animal terms with examples like a pride of lions a herd of deer and a skulk of thieves. It traces how groups and people received figurative nouns from animals to roles in society across history.
Vladimar Poulsen a 38 year old Danish inventor and son of a High Criminal Court judge in Copenhagen has achieved a wireless telephone link between Lyngby and Weissensee covering 250 miles.
A motor vehicle purchased by the town of Tynemouth, England, is adaptable for use as a prison van a fire appliance or an ambulance, reflecting a flexible asset for local services.
A Oswego Montana woman developed gradual eye trouble, described as increasing weakness and flashing lines of light. She quit coffee and switched to Postum Food Coffee, reporting her eyesight fully recovered after about three months with no medicines, and her nursing baby remained healthy. A friend with dyspepsia and headaches also improved after replacing coffee with Postum. There's a Reason. Grape Nuts No 1797.
The frame maker overemphasizes his role in business similar to a gasfitter insisting on a large boiler in the center of a room. The consequence is that household picture frames tend to be overly gaudy and ornate.
The frost from a cold night can fluff feathers better than soap. Put the pillow outdoors for two nights until light and fluffy, then fill a clean ticking pillow case with the feathers for a refreshed pillow.
A dated household guide lists standard measures for kitchen use including teaspoons tablespoons gills cups pints quarts and weights. It covers dry and liquid quantities for ingredients such as butter sugar flour coffee and powdered sugar with exact spoonful and cup conversions.
A Boston Post idea describes a simple wardrobe built from two foot wide by five foot high boards set as a frame with top and bottom rails. Castere in the base corners and brass rings on the top rail hold brass curtains that reach the floor. Shelves can replace hooks to create a nursery bookcase.
The Boston Post describes lace tinting using French and tapestry dyes diluted with water to create delicate or deep hues. Techniques include painting Valenciennes and other thin laces on padded boards, blotting to prevent overrun on fabrics, and drying with hot pressing for a finished look. Ornamental uses include lace curtains doilies and table covers for the coming season.
A dated cooking column lists multiple dessert and loaf recipes. Johnnycake uses milk and Indian meal. Beef Loaf blends round steak crackers eggs sage salt and pepper. Mystery Pudding requires milk eggs sugar nutmeg cider and freezing. Washington Pie uses eggs sugar water flour baking powder and salt with a raisin filling and frosting.
Lionel M Heath of 158 Eighth Street San Bernardino says he suffered back pains frequent micturition dropsy rheumatic aches and kidney trouble for fifteen years before using Deans Kidney Pills. He claims a thorough cure five years ago and now repeats the endorsement. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Vienna approves a 15 million pound municipal loan spread over ninety years at four percent. Funds will finance electric lighting, tramways, gas, a municipal brewery, cemetery buildings, markets, coal depots, and a jubilee hospital among other projects. The Lower Austrian Diet plans a large provincial loan, raising tax implications for Vienna citizens.
A historically styled snippet describes a gloves maker finding ratskin gloves riddled with cuts and scars, arguing such flaws render hides useless for commerce. The piece then advertises Garfield Tea as a laxative and other 19th century remedies, including Woolford’s Lotion and Mrs Winslow’s Syrup, finishing with a claim about a gimlet painting screw worth a million dollars.
A reflection notes widows find amiability and kindness win in marriage, claiming the game of matrimony teaches that softer virtues prevail over other attractions.
A city mission cared for a young woman in a severe condition with scabies incipient paresis rheumatism and sores from scratching. After seven weeks of treatment including Cuticura Soap Resolvent Ointment she recovered enough to seek work. Laura Jane Bates New York cites the case dated March 11 1907.
A brief humorous exchange on a railroad train. A portly passenger asks what would happen if he sat on the hat of the man beside him. The man replies to sit on it and then ask, and the portly passenger admits he already did.
There is more catarrh in this region than all other diseases combined and long treated as local. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is advertised as the only constitutional remedy, taken orally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. A hundred dollar reward is offered for any case not cured and testimonials are provided. Sold by druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A critic notes the tension between judgment and sympathy as he surveys a rural landscape. He recalls a Baltimore American critic who asked an artist what consistent features define the scene. The reply highlights the hill’s brow above the stream’s mouth as the key element.
A front building sign declares the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company invites verification of all advertisement claims. It asks if the vegetable compound cures and if letters from over a million women prove efficacy, urging doubters to come and see the process and results.
The Indianapolis News recalls a time in Morgan and Brown Counties when venison sold for far less than pork, and a full grown wild turkey and dozen quail cost less than today’s sausage or a “short-billed snipe.”
The 12,147 Chinese residents are noted in New York City demographics. The figure appears in a brief notice from the New York area listing community counts and local context for the district.
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