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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1908
Page
3
The suffragettes who break Premier Asquith's windows and threaten to throw bombs are doing what they can to prove that women are not too good for the dirty work of politics.
The article notes Pittsburg bankers adopting Bertillon system profiling for employees, with New York Herald speculating on handcuffing and desk confinement, and locking in safes at night. It contrasts athletic rejection by police surgeons, and surveys on immigration language shift, labor arbitration in New Zealand, and German Americanization trends.
A short moral poem by John Kendrick Bangs in Youth's Companion. It imagines a mind cultivated like a garden where kind deeds and helpful intents bloom as roses while evil thoughts wither as grim thorns. The verse urges uplift and virtue to sprout openly within the soul.
A winter blizzard traps two boys on a farm where snow reveals animal tracks. Old John guides them as they follow fox prints and partridge tracks through fresh drifts, sparking wonder about the woods and wildlife.
In a dawn trek out of the house, David and Philip fear a giant animal prints across fresh snow. The boys rush back with the heavy shovel until Old John identifies the tracks as snowshoe marks, revealing Farmer Brown’s snowshoes.
Governor Hoch appointed Mrs. Levi Cooper as Probate Judge in Mitchell County, citing her prior deputy work and value in the office. She is noted as the first and only woman Probate Judge in the state, with rivals P. G Chubbie and Cyrus Gaston having agreed to support her.
A light sketch notes how Americans chat about trains. two people mirror the scene with a playful exchange. The piece uses the theme to capture travel culture and the speed of modern rail, reflects on punctuality, and nods to travel optimism.
Beat yolks and whites separately then fold in cream and powdered crackers. Butter a hot dish and cook gently until the middle sets, then finish in the oven for a minute. Serve immediately.
A Delineator note recalls a New York restaurant summer dish of green corn and fresh peppers. The method: boil peppers, chop. boil corn in the same water, cut from the cob, then mix with butter and peppers, season with salt, heat and serve at once.
A stuffed leg of pork is prepared by making deep bone parallel incisions and filling with mashed potato onion and sage. The skin is overlaid and roasted, then served with parsley horseradish Apple sauce and lemon crescents.
Cleaning bamboo use brush and warm water with salt to prevent yellowing. Use a paint brush for carved crevices. Ink stains vanish with lemon juice and repeated rubbing. Raw potato cleans oil paintings. wooden trays polish with lemon salts and beeswax. Finger marks disappear with kerosene, doors stay painted. Hearthrugs scrubbed with naphtha soap then vinegar rinse and air dry. Cover boxes with sateen or cretonne to improve appearance.
An ounce of eggs will produce 73 000 silk worms, indicating a high multiplier in silk production. The note underscores efficiency in worm rearing and potential industry implications.
The article notes electric lighting ease with wall switches, plans to electrify 124 miles of the Texas Midland railroad, and third rail use. It reports liquefying helium at 450 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, a new 100000 volt switching device by General Electric, and wave reduction experiments at Havre with a hemp network buoy. It also mentions typhoid links to New York oysters being minimal, radium curing lupus, and cancer treatments from radium bromide exposure per Sir William Ramsay.
Dr Ainley Walker of University College Oxford reports evidence supporting the belief that bee stings may act as a prophylactic and cure for rheumatism. He seeks correspondence from witnesses and notes a proposed link between rheumatic fever and formic acid produced in the human body.
Dr Alexander W Blain of Detroit describes seven adult cases of urticaria after a second dose of antitoxin given for a presumed Klebs Loeffler infection that was actually tonsillitis. He notes blondes suffer more severe reactions and urges cautious dosing and confirmation of infection before further antitoxin use.
Portland residents read of an immediate hotel reconstruction at Mount Washington summit to replace last week’s destroyed building. The article recalls early challenges of hauling materials up slopes by horse and man, noting the railroad now eases the work.
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