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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1908
Page
4
"I wish I had as many clothes as my bachelor girl friend" said the impecunious girl "She always is getting something new every time I go there" "Yes" said her companion "but she never looks stylish You are more stylish than she is with all her clothes She is too neat Her excessive neatness stamps her an old maid You must have a sort of reckless dash about your things to look stylish."
A New York Press quote discusses two women who dine nightly in a roomful of men. The speaker notes the women are critical of male manners and appearance while those with male companions are lenient, suggesting tolerance stems from possible good traits.
The Indianapolis News extols sincerity as the source of personal power. It warns that living a perpetual lie saps energy and warps character and urges removing any deceit to face the world honestly. Strength lies in genuine behavior. deceit weakens.
A Charities and Commons writer critiques the rosy view of the haughty servant image. She recalls home scenes from maid advertisements showing seven applicants. three wept at rejection. Most were bedraggled and discouraged as wages seemed unimportant. A deserted wife with three children asked 10 cents for bus fare, and another mother begged to care for her home and her ten year old son.
Mrs Marie Cross Newhaus urges New York Telegram readers to value immigrant contributions. She cites German thrift and citizenship and highlights Italian savings, investments, and labor in railroads, sub ways, and construction, warning that loss of Italian workers would cripple industry.
A Paris dress house plays on American shoppers as a princess enters in grand style. The ruse yields higher prices for Americans while French buyers pay less, a cycle noted by The Woman's Home Companion and the New York Tribune.
Cambridge university extension meeting hosts an Artists League banners display in support of women suffrage on June 13. Flags honor alumnae and notable women such as Mme Curie St Catherine of Siena St Teresa Katherine Barlow Rossetti Mary Wollstonecraft Florence Nightingale Elizabeth Browning and Susan B Anthony among others.
Fashion notes describe sleeves with wide armholes for evening wraps, suede shoes in demand for house wear, and dainty touches on plain gowns. Ribbon and metallic chains, amber tortoise and silver hair ornaments with butterfly and birds wing designs appear, plus new Directoire buckles and puff sleeves for empire styles.
Nat Anderson of Greenwood Illinois reports five years of worsening kidney disease with backache and disordered secretions. After using Dean's Kidney Pills he gained strength and shows no signs of kidney trouble. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Harper's Weekly notes that steady Wright flights fuel belief among some officers that aeroplanes will one day reduce naval power and cut battleship spending, though such a shift would span years. The piece highlights aerial progress as a sign of future budget shifts in warlike nations.
A wife describes her husband’s rheumatic sores and relentless pain lasting fifteen years. After three doctors failed, use of Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent dried the sores in three weeks and ended the burning. Testimony dated July 21 1907 from Mrs V V Albert.
A palm crab from the South Sea Islands climbs cocoanut palms to harvest fruit. Natives capture it with a grass ruff, down it falls stunned, then killed with a stone axe. The crab is carried to camp, roasted between hot stones, and its flesh valued as a delicacy by Islanders.
An 1890s advertisement argues deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tube mucous lining and claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures nine of ten cases caused by catarrh. It offers one hundred dollars for any cure it cannot achieve and promotes Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The rector revived a century old charity custom in Selston, distributing loaves baked with a silver coin from a parish churchyard tombstone. The service followed Lammas bread distribution and Goose Fair bell tolling once practiced in the village.
Berlin unveiled a year round ice skating rink on September 1 making it the fourth permanent rink in Europe after London Paris and Munich. This marks a notable expansion in European winter recreation and sport facilities.
A maternal health appeal discusses the longing of many American women in lonely homes for motherhood. It notes an organic derangement denying happiness and urges preparation for healthy maternity through a described remedy.
Mrs Maggie Gilmer of West Union DC reports recovery and motherhood after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female weakness. Mrs Josephine Hall of Bardstown KY says the remedy cured her disorders and she is now a mother. The advertisement promotes the product as a standard female health tonic made from roots and herbs and invites sick women to write for advice in Lynn Mass.
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