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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
3
A Piermont mother recalls her son’s severe eczema starting at four months and spreading to nearly the whole body. After using three Cutiura remedies for about two months he improved and was fully well in six months. The note is dated Oct. 24, 1905.
A Kansas editor writes to promissory note holders from the Leavenworth Times. He encloses a check to pay interest and renew the note and adds If you are not willing to renew it I really do not know what advice to give you. The missive blends humor with a request for renewal.
An advertisement proclaims deafness in nine of ten cases caused by catarrh and inflam mation of the Eustachian tube. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness cure not achieved by Hall's Catarrh Cure and urges sending for circulars. The note lists FJ Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The sulphur bottom or blue whale is the largest living animal and the largest that has ever lived, reaching eighty feet in length. The article lists measurements for a large whale including skull, jawbone, flippers, blubber, viscera, and total weight around sixty tons, with large individuals reaching sixty-five tons. It notes the brontosaurus as the largest animal of the past at about thirty eight tons.
Advertises paid daily work at three dollars in cash with all capital supplied. Seeks applicants in Philadelphia at 1024 Race Street and promises the offer will not appear again.
A brief cleaning note advises discarding tea coffee and fruit stains from linen by rubbing with butter, then rubbing in and soaking the fabric in hot water.
A New York Journal note describes a woman using a pedometer during housework. Under optimal conditions she covers about 7.38 miles daily while performing household tasks.
The New York Press notes holes from hanging pictures can be repaired by mixing plaster of Paris with water to form a paste. Apply to the hole, let it dry hard, then paint or cover with wall paper.
Two pounds of whiting one-fourth pound cream of tartar and one and one-half ounces calcined magnesia form a best quality silver polish. Mix well store in a dry dark place. Moisten canton flannel with alcohol or water apply dry polish and rub. Good for metal and glass.
The New York Journal warns that powder puffs are unsanitary if dirty and should be kept clean. Old puffs injure skin and push grime into the cuticle. a puff’s life is a few weeks and requires thorough cleansing.
The Washington Star suggests saving green corn husks as stuffing for extra summer pillows and drying them for a crisp filling. Add dried rose geranium or lemon verbena for fragrance, with pink and white clover blossoms as alternatives. Include hop pillows to ease nervousness and insomnia, and place a newspaper inside the pillow case to stay cool while sleeping.
A collection of home cooking directions including Spanish Rice with tomatoes and onions, Surprise Cake with pastry flour eggs and milk, Salmon Cutlets with mashed potatoes and breadcrumbs, Cuban Hash with Hamburg steak and macaroni, Cold Roast Beef alternative, and Fish Curry with onions flour curry powder stock and lemon served with rice.
A father divides his two valued possessions between his two sons the elder dutiful and the younger crafty. The younger seeks the blessing and the camels are allotted to the elder after a dispute leading to the elder being beaten for vacapity.
The article notes an a verage ten year ratio of eighty four tons iron per one ton copper with demand and production trends for both metals shifting. Copper production rose from 405,350 tons in 1897 to 718,368 tons in 1906, a 4.3 percent ten year average, while 1905 to 1906 showed a small 2.03 percent gain of 15,754 tons, explaining price rises due to iron ore abundance and greater iron-smelting capacity.
A bishop recounts a small town scene where ladies cook early and sing Nearer My God to Thee. He praises the hostess's piety, then she explains the hymn is simply the egg boiling tune, with three verses for soft eggs and five for hard.
The sea-wolf or orca dominates Arctic and sub Arctic seas as a 14 foot, 3000 pound predator. It moves swiftly and cunningly with an insatiable appetite, feeding mainly on young seals walruses whales and the tongue of adult whales.
A riddle from Puck describes a man with two hobbies one costing 22000 yearly and the other 600. One is air called and the other naturally cool. One is used at night the other goes out alone. One has one sparker the other several. He cranks one while the other is self cranking. Both are inconsistent and unreliable. Which hobby is the wife and which is the automobile.
An Ohio woman describes years of indigestion and constipation and fear of a serious illness. After using Grape-Nuts she reports regular bowels and improved memory, noting food changes and a promotional booklet from Postum Co. in Battle Creek Michigan.
An ad laden note cites practices in Russia where wives are obtained by purchase and promotes medical quackery including Dr Kline's nerve restorer with a trial bottle. It also mentions flat-houses in Philadelphia and Woolford's Lotion claiming fast itch relief and a balloon race grim prophecy.
An advertisement extols Southern California as a place where crops grow daily and acre yields range from 80 to 500 dollars, featuring orderly communities, strong schools, safe trolley roads, and a mild climate. The ad invites readers to send ten cents and the ad to the Examiner in Los Angeles to receive the Fourth Anniversary number publishing December 1 2 with full details.
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