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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1908
Page
3
Mrs. Herman Smith of Athens Georgia says kidney disease led to dropsy and weakness until Dean's Kidney Pills saved her life. She details severe back pain bearing down sensations and swollen limbs. Pills sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
The Evening Post notes coal mining grew from an average 1.23 million tons in the 1870s to 2.76 million in the 1880s and 7.63 million by 1905, reaching 9.78 million tons produced in 1906.
For years Owen suffered from severe eczema described as incurable by doctors. After four hospitalizations and multiple treatments, a Cuticura set cured him six months prior. Mrs. Lily Hedge of Camberwell Green, England, reports the dramatic improvement as of January 12, 1907.
The Chicago News notes plans for a Baltic and Black Sea Canal crossing Russia north to south, a 1000 mile inland waterway with an estimated cost near 500 million dollars likely to rise further. Italy also eyes a Genoa to Lake Constance link via inclined tubular water lifts to cross the Alps and Apennines, enabling steamer travel over Europe's highest mountains.
The text notes envelopes are a relatively modern invention about a hundred years old, credited to Brighton paper maker Brewes. It explains envelopes in their present form emerged slowly and did not become common until around 1850, contrasting with earlier practice of writing on one side, folding, sealing with wafer or wax, and addressing on a blank side.
An advertising claim extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a valued laxative due to cleansing and gentle action with no debilitation. It asserts physicians approve its non objectionable components and urges purchase only from the California Fig Syrup Co. and sold by leading druggists.
A narrator reflects on how his mother always detects when he has been swimming despite attempts to hide dirt and rumpled hair. He admits being found out and muses on a mother's keen, almost magical, knowledge.
Earl Stone and Paris Hattabaugh aged 9 and 10 found a large 33 pound catfish trapped between a log and a stone at the old mill dam one mile east of town. Paris used a hat string to thread through the gills and both boys hauled it ashore, delivering the season’s largest catch to Bloomfield.
A school leader contrasts wages on a railway to urge students to pursue education. He notes the workers shoveling cinders earn modest pay while the engineer and superintendent earn far more, asserting the difference is education. The scene unfolds just before noon at an Ohio school with local officials present.
The article notes that the Americas hold the world monopoly on hummingbirds with about four hundred species, mostly tropical and exclusive to the Americas. Only eighteen species reach the United States, found in the Southwest from Mexico. It corrects the myth that hummingbirds feed mainly on nectar, explaining they rely on small insects and that they help control flower pests by predation.
A fairy tale sketch about Princess Elvira a clever beauty with a future royal match. Her vanity and love of finery distract her as the prince travels to visit, leading to a series of trials that test her character and resolve.
Elvira seeks royal admiration but the prince rejects her. Guided by her governess she pursues learning and self improvement, then abandons wealth to serve the poor. Her humble heart shines. the prince returns, impressed by character and deeds, and makes her queen.
Harold and his father discuss General Washingtons horses in a family tea table story. The tale explains muslin bays and white horses cared for by Bishop and German John, detailing grooming, discipline, and the famed horse Nelson used in the Revolutionary War. Nelson dies of old age at Vernon years after the Revolution.
Tillman Ford of Salem Oregon left in his will that gold watches costing 125 dollars each should be given to thirty nine intimate friends.
Remarks discuss the color of tobacco smoke, a glass encased telephone prototype to show workshop skill and simplicity, and praise for slow speed as essential to meaningful aviation progress rather than relying on high forward velocity for position.
An endurance drum march around Paris restricted to drummers from the military station. The circular route measured 23 1 4 miles with continuous march time drumming. Only one participant completed the full distance in six hours and five minutes.
Scientists note a rare geodetic anomaly where gravity tilts plumb lines. In Puerto Rico the vertical is offset enough that old maps must shift northern and southern coastlines inward about half a mile to align.
A Washington scientist reports experiments on mental fatigue challenging the view that the mind loses power like a rubber ball and that sleep recharges it. He finds the incapacity from mental work is less than assumed and suggests prior studies with children may measure dislike of mental effort rather than true fatigue.
A Paris Academy piece cited by M Gaston Bonnier describes bees testing sugar, then returning with companions. The bees fill their crops with water from a garden fountain, drain it into syrup on sugar, and carry the syrup back to the hive, suggesting understanding of syrup making and communication of discovery.
The Isle of Man's northern area faces a rabbit menace to agriculture. The House of Keys passed a bill to treat rabbits as vermin and allows landowners to shoot without a license and authorize others to do likewise for destruction.
A New York Press item quotes Gerald and Geraldine in a witty exchange about marriage and romance. The gag centers on a phonograph as a stand‑in for a suitor and the comic clash over modern courtship.
During the last twelve months there were 186 children injured by vehicles in the streets of New York City and ninety seven of them were killed.
Lena V Henry of Norristown Ga writes that after faint hope from surgery she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and was cured. She urges every woman with female trouble to try the tonic.
The ad promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the standard remedy for female ills after thirty years of use. It claims to cure displacement inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and pains and invites women to write for advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
The piece argues against linking fatness to lack of genius citing Luther Calvin Renan and other luminaries. It quotes C H Spurgeon who insists he is bone and flesh not fat and defends mental clarity despite body size.
A homeopathic physician's young daughter receives a ring with a pearl on the Christmas tree. Two days later she sobs at her father's office door and reveals she has lost the little pill from the ring, a small domestic mishap recounted in the Christian Register.
A Somerset frontier note cites the Somerville Journal quip that a woman keeps poetry in her pocketbook and a bachelor carries a safety pin in his pocket, implying prudent habits.
A reader attributes long illness to caffeine in coffee and credits Postum with recovery after switching to the beverage. The letter claims rapid improvement within weeks and lasting health after five months, endorsed by the Postum Company for Battle Creek Michigan with a plug for The Road to Wellville.
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