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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1909
Page
4
A movement in Boston seeks to found a social clubhouse for girl students. The New York Sun notes 20 000 women studying in the city and says the clubhouse would safeguard their welfare. Miss Green toured New York Philadelphia Boston Chicago and concludes most girls in big cities can find work and shelter leading to advancement.
Miss Claudia McKenzie won first prize with a portrait by Ben Ali Haggin while Mrs. Bradley Jones took second with a miniature by Martha Wheeler Baxter. Hats trimmed by the club were donated to a Sunday school class on the East Side.
Silman Jay Kaufman argues against intermarriage, citing social pressure and shallow gossip. He foresees a future where ancestry is deemphasized and descendants replace ancestors, suggesting intermarriage will vanish when spiritual pygmies are uprooted.
Ida Falbe Hansen, General Superintendent of Public Schools of Denmark, recently marked her sixtieth birthday. She is praised as a beloved and brilliant woman, and recognized as a pioneer in advancing education.
A Harper's Bazaar excerpt urges girls to understand themselves and others. It cautions against rude growth and insists that true conviction requires calmness and kindness even when changing beliefs or churches. It warns that half formed thoughts lead to irritability and poor guidance of others.
Apple tapioca prepared as a dessert: soak tapioca in six cups boiling water until clear, stir often. In a baking dish place six cups peeled apples with lemon peel or nutmeg, one cup sugar, and a scant teaspoon salt. Pour tapioca over fruit and bake slowly until done. serve hot or cold with cream. Cherries may substitute for apples with sugar added.
A Danish woman overcame many obstacles to enter and graduate from the university. She taught at the Normal College of Copenhagen for years and in 1903 became General Supervisor of Public Schools, the first woman to hold the post in Denmark.
The piece describes artificial flowers and la cage Sorel in coiffure fashion inspired by Grecian statuary. Hair is parted to one side with a large puff on the left, a chignon of short curls, ribbons, laurel leaves, gold berries, oak rosettes, and pearl strings winding through the tresses.
Lucy Green, a seventeen year old girl with five dollars arrives at South Station and is guided to Franklin House. She praises the hotel for working girls with its comforts and low board. She then visits the Young Women's Christian Association seeking work and is offered a position with the association.
The latest fashion notes show bodice chains as a fad with gold net lining for yokes. Patch pockets, lace in millinery, and straw trimmings mark the season, while long coats wane and varied coat shapes and colors dominate.
A man who had wandered in a delirious state for a week awakens in Anaconda. He asks a police officer what town this is and laments his capture with the line I’ve got ’em again. The report captures a dazed recovery in a strange city.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh at all stages as a constitutional disease. The ad claims internal use affects blood and mucous surfaces, offering $100 for any case it fails to cure and urging requests for testimonials from Oweney & Co. in Toledo, CA. Sold by Druggists for 75 cents. Vale Family Pills also recommended for constipation.
A roundup of notable figures includes William E. B. Corey linked to a large copper venture, Colonel John Jacob Astor owning a vast personal automobile collection, Jacob Riis named honorary president of the Playground Association of America, and Rear-Admiral Harber and his squadron hosted in Tokyo. Also noted are magistrate Walsh's charitable fund, Cambridge scholar Charles Waldstein’s London wedding, Vand funding a New York park restoration, Marquis de Villalobar's London post, Rodman Griscom meeting King Victor Emmanuel, and Dr Harvey Wiley leading delegates to London.
In seven sleeping sickness in uda has kaiad no teractan 200,000 out a population of 300,000.
The article praises Kemp's cough cure, long valued by doctors and nurses for cough relief. It notes Kemp's Balsam as a reliable remedy with a popular standing among the well informed. It mentions druggists selling the product for 25 cents and recalls the first balloon ascent in Paris in 1784.
An ad fragment references Marine Eye Remedy and a product for teething by Mrs Winslow. It notes a shilling profitability claim and lists Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children with claims to soften gums reduce inflammation ease teething and cure wind colic priced at 25 cents a bottle.
A terse exchange has a doctor urging a young aeronaut to leave the office for outdoor air. The patient states his occupation as aeronaut, highlighting a clash between medicine and occupation in this vignette from Life.
The English mercantile marine, forming more than half of world shipping, contributes about $450,000,000 annually to the country. N.Y.-21
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