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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1908
Page
3
A lyrical reflection praises blue grass as untamed and enduring across sunlit dingle and fence row. The verse contrasts its purity with fading seasonal vestures while recalling schoolboys turning to the blue grass cool and clean in a homespun pastoral scene.
A woman rushes to catch the eight o'clock car and endures public laughter when her glove reveals a baby's black sock. A familiar, tactful man sits beside her, easing her discomfort as she recounts her mother's health and finds relief in his quiet support.
A brief note from the Boston Sunday Post mentions a mission to visit a small house at the hill’s base and a quip about a baby receiving affection with the return of a tiny black sock.
Dr Samuel McComb argues nervous distress stems from egotism and self centered thought. A moralist psychologist should re educate the inner life to redirect attention from morbid ideas to balanced mental discipline.
A selection of maxims on worry, pain, labor, belief, sacrifice, pleasure, and charity. Includes statements about forgiveness, work, friendship, and personal conduct sourced from The Chicago Tribune’s Sentence Sermons.
The Phoenicians first conveyed distant lands to other nations and Greek geography originated with Herodotus of Halicarnassus around 484 BC. Earlier sailors crossed the Western ocean, producing the first rough world charts.
Leslie's Weekly reports the ex-Emperor of Korea, deposed by Japanese forces, lives in a small Seoul cottage under tight guard. His fortune vanished into the treasury, and he is cut off from contact, while his son rules under Japanese escort amid suspected insurrection.
A vintage advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous membrane remedy. Endorsers Walding and Marvin of Toledo attest to F. J. Cheney & Co. honesty and ability. Includes price 75 cents per bottle and a constipation remedy recommendation.
A pompous deacon fielding a class of boys asks why people call him a Christian. A bright boy answers simply, because they don’t know you, delivering a gentle, guileless punchline that amuses the class.
An advertisement extols a wellbeing product as a trusted family laxative. It urges buying the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. version and notes it is approved by physicians and the Well-Informed of the World and sold by leading druggists.
After twenty five years of operation of the postal savings bank of India the depositors number 1 190 220 and the deposits amount to 49 223 283 dollars.
Mrs Enos Shearer of Centralia Washington recounts years of weakness sleepless nights swelling limbs and pain. After doctors gave up she found relief using Deans Kidney Pills sold 60 cents a box by Wester Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A teacher asks students to define eloped from Ivanhoe. Silence falls before a pupil explains it means ran away or carried away. A boy then mocks with a sentence about Mr. Green's dog eloping with his father's dinner.
A Dumid Virginia mother recalls her six month old daughter suffering extreme eczema with nearly no skin and blood oozing. After trying many remedies, she says the child improved after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, with the family noting no further signs of the illness by age three.
The medical fraternity discusses increased whiskey use for lame back rheumatism. A shown formula mixes half a pint of whiskey with one ounce Toris Compound and one ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound. Take in tablespoon doses before meals and at night. Toris Compound is a Globe Pharmaceutical Co. product from Chicago.
South Russia hosts valuable mineral wealth including rock salt coal copro lites kaolin sands for glass making manganese and iron ore. The iron ore is the most important, high quality free of phosphorus and with little sulphur.
Lena V. Henry of Norristown Ga writes that she suffered severe female troubles and feared surgery. After trying Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she improved before finishing one bottle and is now entirely cured. She urges all women with such troubles to take the remedy.
The text praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard cure for female ailments including displacements, inflammation, ulcers, fibroid tumors, irregularities, backache, flatulence, indigestion, dizziness, and nervous prostration. It invites women to write for advice and provides Lynn, Massachusetts address.
Trimmed with fifteen ostrich feathers each two yards long the hat to be worn by Miss Madge Temple at the London Coliseum is valued at 600 dollars. The note from New York indicates the price and display context.
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