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Georgetown Daily Item

Location

Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Aug 25, 1908

Page

3

Saved at the Crisis Kidney Pills Credited with Life Save

Mrs Herman Smith of 901 Broad Street Athens Ga credits Dean's Kidney Pills with saving her life during a kidney disease period marked by weakness backache and swelling. She states doctors offered no help and urges others to buy the product sold by dealers for 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.

Herman Smith Broad Street Athens Dean Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo N. Y

India Coal Output Growth Through Decades

Report notes India's coal mining industry expanded from 1.23 million tons average per year in the 1870s to 2.76 million in the 1880s and 7.63 million by 1900s, with 9.78 million tons produced in 1906 according to the Evening Post.

India Evening Post

Cure for Eczema Proves Possible with Cuticura

From infancy to adolescence a boy suffered severe eczema until a Cuticura remedy set was tried. After multiple hospital discharges as hopeless, six months of treatment led to a remarkable improvement and full recovery. Mrs. Lily Hedge of Camberwell Green England reports the cure on January 12, 1907.

Owen Lily Hedge Camblewell Green England

Labor Union Movements and International Trades Highlights

A French leather workers delegation tours U S factories while Boston Hebrew painters reform their union. San Francisco Building Trades forms athletic group. Mexico City carpenters join the AFL. Potters fix apprentice age limits. Chicago reports rising union buttons. New Orleans longshoremen sign a five year deal with stevedores. A seceding Brotherhood of Railroad Employes faction renames as Railroad Station Employes. International Bookbinders set June 1910 Cedar Rapids convention. St Paul Typographical Union plans a Minnesota State Fair label exhibit. Railway trackmen seek a home for aged members near Fort Scott Kansas. NYC New Haven Hartford rail unions join the federated council.

Boston Mass San Francisco Cal Building Trades Council Carpenters City of Mexico A. F. of L National Brotherhood of Operative Potters Chicago Road's Service

Truth and Quality Appeal to the Well Informed

The advertisement extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a valued laxative helping cleanse and relieve internal organs without debility or dosage increases. It asserts physician approval and warns to buy only the genuine California Fig Syrup Co product through leading druggists.

California

New York City Fashion Describes Overs blouse Styles

A description from New York City extols the beauty of the over blouse style. It details fabric widths including one and one half yards forty four inches wide and various cuts for the centre front and trimming to illustrate the fashion.

New York City

Tailored Costumes Feature Chiffon Velvet Trim

A fashion note describes tail ored and semi-tailored costumes using a thin weave of chiffon velvet as a decorative trim.

Lightweight White Serge Coat for Girls with Sailor Collar

A simple versatile coat for young girls replaces the reefer with ease. Made in white serge with Copenhagen blue collar and cuffs, it suits all popular materials from linen to pongee. The loose front and back feature a big sailor collar and a detachable shield.

Copenhagen

Graceful semi princ ess dress design described

The article details a graceful semi princess dress pattern for girls, using pongee and taf feta with embroidery. It notes center front contrast fabrics, Oriental-inspired bands, and possible banding options, with a single garment forming blouse and sleeves, back closure, and rolled cuffs.

Milk Cure Attracts Fashionable Attention In Sunbury

A fashion trend, the milk cure, gains society interest for skin care. It involves nightly milk rub with soft linen, drying, then washing in milk each morning without soap, claimed to render skin sunburn resistant per Indian Lancet.

Freshening a Linen Frock with Colored Bands

The New York Press describes lengthening shrunk linen frocks or coats with bands of colored linen as a fashionable trim this season. Colors such as yellow on white with white soutache braiding, pink and blue, and side bands with color edged hems are noted.

New York

How to Keen Water Cold from a Home Guide

A Woman's Home Companion writer describes a method to keep ice water cold in a pitcher. Layer thick brown paper and cotton around the pitcher, seal ends, and cover one end like a stovepipe hat to exclude air. place over the ice water and observe extended coldness after ice melts.

Woman’s Home Companion

A Handsome Portiere Craft From Woman's Life

A step by step guide to making a decorative portiere from serge or linen. Create a two inch top hem and attach to gilded harness rings, then fringe bottom, outline a bold design in colors, and dye inside the outline. Add a rope across the top for tassels and consider tar water to deter moths.

Simple Historic Desserts and Ice Cream Notes

Recipes describe Kisses with stiff egg whites and sugar to bake flaky cookies, Coffee Cake with flour soda tartar and butter, Cup Custard with yolks whites and vanilla, Philadelphia Vanilla Ice Cream with cream sugar and vanilla. Directions cover mixing, baking, and freezing steps.

Philadelphia

Woman Credits Lydia E Pinkham Compound For Cure

Lena V He of Norristown Ga says she suffered female troubles and feared an operation until Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After one bottle she improved greatly and is now cured, urging others with similar issues to try the remedy.

Lydia E. Pinkham Lena V. He Norristown Lydia Pinkham

Facts for Sick Women by Lydia E Pinkham

A historical advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the standard remedy for female ailments. It claims the product has cured thousands of women from displacements inflammation and other disorders and invites readers to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.

Lydia E. Pinkham

Chorus Girl Famine Hits London Theatres

London theatres face a shortage of chorus girls who are pleasing to see and hear. Managers report more applicants than in years, but few meet all requirements for singing, dancing, and appearance. One manager tested 200 with none qualifying.

London

Russians Withdraw from Manchuria to Aid Entente

The Russo-Chinese Bank at Mukden will immediately close its branches in Southern Manchuria despite protests from the Russian legation in Pekin. The move sharpens the Russo Japanese entente by clearly demarcating spheres of influence in Manchuria.

Manchuria Mukden Pekin Japan

Jamaica's First Strike In Kingston Cigarmakers Walkout

Jamaica's first strike occurred in Kingston when workers for the Jamaica Tobacco Company, part of the American Tobacco Company, quit in protest after the firm ended the longstanding privilege that allowed them to make cigars daily for personal use.

Jamaica Kingston Jamaica Tobacco Company American Tobacco Company

Coffee to Postum Cure Story Underlines Health Gain

A reader recalls pale health after years of coffee use and credits switching to Postum. After five months of drinking Postum, headaches fade, appetite returns, sleep improves, and weight rises to 148 pounds, with continued vitality attributed to Postum. The letter ends with a promotional tag and a nod to The Road to Wellville.

Postum Postum Co Battle Creek Mich Wellville

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