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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1908
Page
4
A lyric poem expresses a plea for divine and human love. The speaker suggests love resides in the beloved’s silent soul beyond any song, with imagery of sacred wine and spiritual longing, attributed to Edna Kingsley Wallace in Putnam's.
An Englishman returns at sunset to a dry river plain and finds a ragged boy tending cows. The boy speaks of sacrifice to his grandfather a holy saint who gathered followers, offered offerings, and kept a living book of souls in prayer for bread and protection.
An Englishman visits a poor village to meet a boy who heals fever by praying to his revered grandfather. The child explains he performs only small miracles and tends his grandfather's shrine, with his father’s blessing to continue healing in old rituals. The boy coughs blood, foreshadowing ill health and an impending change in guardianship for the shrine.
The London Globe notes two clubs that meet only once a year. The Grass club hosts an asparagus dinner, while the Aberdeen-Angus breeders’ A A club holds its annual dinner on the Saturday before the Smithfield show. The A A club has unique china and hoof-made ornaments from champions. Each guest receives a wooden ladle and whiskey glass, and the year’s chairman must lead speeches starting to his left.
A Scientific American note outlines restoring copper plant prints by tacking the print, brushing, washing in water with ammonia, rinsing, repeating on the back when dry, moistening with dilute vinegar, washing in calcium chloride, then rinsing with creamed water and air drying. The method aims to whiten the paper without harming the print.
A student questions cave inscriptions as the professor interprets them as a lease. The Kansas City Journal records a brief dialogue on prehistoric clues and modern interpretations in an academic setting.
The German population across the globe is reported to be close to 100 million, reflecting a large diaspora and historic demographic footprint.
A damp beggar in worn clothes pleads at a Lombard Street bank counter. A sympathetic clerk offers a threepenny bit. The man vows to spend the money on a good dinner a bath shave and a new suit before returning any left over to the bank.
Sylvanus O Verrill of Milford Maine states a back pain and urine disorder after a 5 year injury. He credits one box of Dean’s Kidney Pills with improved kidney function and pain relief, enabling him to walk with crutches then discard them as his health rapidly recovered. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The Cumberland dredge, a government vessel, sucked up a live octopus into its hull while working with a large suction pump in the Savannah River. The frightened eight tentacled creature died soon after capture, marking a rare instance of a government boat ending an octopus’s life.
A historical ad-style remedy promises to break a cold promptly using one ounce each of Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla and Toris Compound and a half pint of whiskey. Shake well and take a tablespoonful every four hours, claiming an acute cold cure in 24 hours.
A Chinaman of noble birth visits William's home and is treated with respect. The boy, after exposure to explanations of Chinese features, asks if the guest would be funny if he were not their friend, revealing candid curiosity and cultural lessons in a domestic scene.
An elderly reader reports relief from severe hemorrhoids and eczema after using Cuticura Soap,Ointment,and Pills with suppositories. He notes prior failed remedies and high costs, crediting Cuticura for restoring health over months. Also includes several sensational health claims and a teething syrup advertisement.
A London Daily Mail letter by E. King notes several small islands for sale in the South Seas. Sophia Island and Nassau Island lie about seven days by steamer from Samoa and are cocoa nut bearing. The New Hebrides group has islands for sale but fever is common there. The North Marshall group also has purchasable small islands.
A line from The Bohemian depicts Barber warning Jaggs that his hair will fall out by the handful as he staggers home after a night out. Jaggs responds in drunken confusion before facing his wife.
Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease and cannot be cured by local applications. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and targets blood and mucous surfaces. Presented as a genuine prescription from a leading physician, it blends tonics with blood purifiers and promises remarkable catarrh relief. Send for testimonials. F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
A drummer questions an elderly Black man outside a village store about memory of General Washington. The man replies he used to remember him but has not since joining a church. Judge, N.Y. 47.
The passage argues that many operations performed on women in hospitals are unnecessary and could be avoided, reflecting a critical view of surgical interventions in female patients and suggesting widespread overuse of procedures. It emphasizes the fear and dread associated with surgical operations for women.
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been promoted as a standard remedy for female ills. Readers report relief from displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains and backache after using the product and writing for advice.
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