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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
3
The Well-informed demand a pleasant and efficient liquid laxative with known value. California Fig Syrup Co offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as an ethical, gentle yet prompt remedy. Buy the genuine product from leading druggists, price fifty cents per bottle.
Fogs form over sandbanks as shallow cold water remains cooler than the deep sea. The banks near Newfoundland see fogs intensified by the warm Gulf Stream meeting this cold water layer.
A Lake City Minnesota resident describes severe kidney trouble with back pain dizziness nervousness and vision issues. After using Deans Kidney Pills he claims full recovery and perfect health. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A seven year old asks his physician father for sleep aid. He is told to count to 100, then another hundred, and so on. That night the father finds quiet until the boy asks what comes after trillions, delivering a sly finish from a Bellman line.
A genomic note quotes Francis Bacon on the turning of the cat in the pan a linguistic puzzle where speech appears echoed as if spoken to the speaker. It presents a witty instance of indirect quotation and rhetorical twist in English prose.
A comment reflects on many deeds done in the name of charity and the large number of people involved, as observed by the Philadelphia Ledger.
England still operates 104 miles of horse traction street railways. Of the rest, 64 miles use steam power, 25 miles rely on cable, and 4 miles are gas powered.
A Chicago clerk credits Grape-Nuts with restoring her health and allowing continued work and income. She suffered nervous invalidity from overwork and poor diet, then used Grape-Nuts as a major part of two meals daily. She claims brain fatigue and dyspepsia vanished, enabling her to keep her job.
A recipe from the Indianapolis News describes a sauce for vanilla ice cream using orange halves. Boil sugar and hot water without stirring, dip peeled orange halves in syrup, then serve or mold ice cream with the oranges and syrup poured over.
A preserved excerpt presents Fannie Merritt Farmer guiding readers through a stuffed tomato salad and homemade mayonnaise. It details preparing six small tomatoes with salt, mixing a cheese and herb filling, and crafting a mayonnaise with mustard sugar and cayenne. It includes step by step emulsification and cautions on oil addition.
A narrated collection of housekeeping hacks including treating poison exposure with alcohol, salt on carpets for cleaning, using hot bread to prevent clamminess, cooling baked goods before boxing, whipping egg whites with salt, stiffening clothes with borax in starch, removing finger marks from paint, cleaning silver with magnesia, ironing pleats with towels, removing benzine rings with gypsum, and general stain tricks.
Consul Maxwell Blake warns American travelers in Scotland and Europe to beware of so called antique dealers. He notes shops ranging from big cities to remote villages display and sell reproductions or overprice items with forged age. Seek dealers with written guarantees and avoid famous names said to be overpriced fakes.
United States Weather Bureau reports 6256 buildings damaged by lightning in 1899 with property valued over 3 million dollars. Fatalities exceed 563 and injuries 820. 4250 head of livestock killed. Telegraph wires, poles, and insulators suffer, injuring instruments and affecting farmers and others.
A Pueblo custom described by A W Dimock in Outing Magazine where a lion skin robe wearer whips children aged four to ten once a year to discipline past misdeeds and instill respect for elders, viewed as wisdom akin to Solomon.
A juror in a Far West murder trial is sworn in and declares he will be fair, but explains he believes the prisoner must have done something to be in the dock, promising a guilty verdict to all.
Mrs. Lillie Wildher of Chattanooga reports a running neck sore and facial tetter when Cuticura remedies cured both in a two year span. She notes two cakes of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment relieved severe itching and burning.
A man named John Simmons, once a twenty year abstainer, seeks whisky for a ruse. His boy asks a hotelkeeper for a bottle claiming it is for his father who supposedly abstains. The boy reveals the father wants the cork for a fishing float to enter a secret.
The controversy between dairy interests and oleomargarine makers ends with a decision by the Secretary of Agriculture in favor of the dairy sector. He upholds an inspection mark requirement on oleomargarine wrappers, including the official establishment number, after a full hearing.
Investigation by settlement workers shows extreme poverty widespread on the east side of New York City. The text notes a large number of ties purchased by steam and electric railroads in 1906, indicating demand comprising about 75 percent of the total.
A fruit company shipped 40 million banana bunches last year to England and the United States from Central and South America and Jamaica.
Dr Krause of Berlin claims a serum for viper bites fits and nervous disorders while Dr Kline offers Great Nerve Dive Restorer. Allen’s Foot Ease promises smaller shoes and relief from foot woes. Cattle egret aids grazing cattle in India. Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup soothes teething. Bears taxed in some Japanese villages. N Y 3.
A historical note discusses women fearing surgical operations and asserts that many operations on women in hospitals are unnecessary, with many cases avoided. The fragment hints at widespread concerns about medical overuse.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been promoted as a standard remedy for female ills. The ad cites letters from women claiming life saving relief from severe female troubles and urges others to write for advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
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