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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1908
Page
3
The Toledo Blade advises that persons who can afford it should take a few days of rest after their vacation. The reminder emphasizes taking time to recover before resuming daily routines.
An advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can restore hearing damaged by catarrh. It asserts deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tubes and offers one hundred dollars for any cure it cannot effect. Cited as Toledo Ohio based, urging readers to buy Hall's Family Medicines for constipation as well.
The Chicago Tribune reports visions of at least three Andean railways including a trans continental line. The Valparaiso to Juncal route will extend through a long tunnel to Mendoza connecting with Argentina. A central Peruvian road climbs 6000 feet in fifty miles and will soon reach the Ucayali River, with a 2000 mile ocean navigation head.
In Claiborne County Tennessee more than 700 acres were planted to tomatoes in 1907 to support an estimated 1 000 000 bushels. About 2 000 000 quart cans were brought into the county at an outlay of 10 000 dollars. Nearly fifty canneries a mix of large and small processed the crop for Southern Farm Magazine.
A reader recounts a mother plagued by seven years of nervous headaches who switched from coffee to Postum Food Coffee. After a proper preparation, her headaches vanished and coffee disappeared from the home. A friend also switches after tasting Postum and is taught how to brew it properly, leading to a coffee ban in both households.
On July 30 Lieutenant Shackleton sails for the Antarctic and fixes base on King Edward's Land the easternmost point reached by the 1901-04 expedition. He will lead three sledging expeditions aided by a motor car built by Arrol-Johnston, Paisley, with cold resistant design and three wheel sets. Siberian ponies also form part of the experimental plan.
The article describes a double color brush invented by a New Jersey man. It explains color carried by the brushes ensures a more even wash and permits covering the entire surface before drying. Two colors can be carried on the brush, one on each side, aiding artists applying two colors simultaneously.
News agg from Albany to California notes J M Harlan denying presidential candidacy in light of roiling GOP chatter. Hughes silent on a boom while Cortelyou hails Roosevelt as the force. Taft endorsed by Oklahoma Republicans and Lincoln and Roosevelt clubs back Taft. Wisconsin and Chicago groups boost La Follette as others push Bryan in Democratic circles.
Highlights include 167256 Pennsylvania births with 87000 boys. Mulai Hafik proclaimed Sultan of Fez with a Moroccan holy war declared. American sailors riot in Pernam buco. first vessel to fly Panama flag launched in England. US national debt about 900 million. 1907 exports average 2 million daily. Henry Farman wins 10000 prize in Paris for a kilometer circle. Korean insurgents surrender arms. Baron Takahira named US ambassador. Dr Wyman links fleas to bubonic plague. US battleship log notes fleet exercises. TB congress to meet in Washington. Carnegie Steel buys a hardening armor plate invention.
George Sutton and Jacob Schaefer split the world billiard honors for 1907. Roger Bresnahan signs to catch for New York. Jockey Mountain suspended by Crescent City stewards. Harvard routs Columbia 14 to 1 in intercollegiate hockey. Moran and Attell draw after 25 rounds. Maher spends winter hunting hounds. Arabo donated to New York State Breeding Bureau. Public outcry over Denmark comments echoed by athletes. Driscoll named England’s featherweight champion. Yale’s Howard H. Jones named Syracuse football coach for 1908.
Mrs A Gregory of Denver writes that after six years of female troubles and an attempted operation she was restored to health by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter promotes the tonic for displacements, inflammation, ulcers and other female ailments and invites further advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. Africa leads in gold production, America is next.
Mrs. Frank Donahue reports her son suffered severe itching sores spreading from hands to body. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for four nights, he was completely cured. She cites Kokomo Indiana as the source and date September 16, 1907.
A nondescript seed catalog notice from Berliner Earliest Cauliflower Salter Seed Co. of La Crosse Wisconsin promotes new vegetable and flower seeds. It highlights cabbage, cucumber, lettuce, onion, melon, radish and other offerings with postpaid and mailing options.
Brief excerpt describes a medical exchange aboard a ship with a first interne noting a possible incision or leak, and the surgeon commander directing treatment with sterilized cotton and plaster while promising a consultation if symptoms persist. The published dialogue reflects naval medical practice and onboard triage.
Bernard P. Woods of Lonaconing Maryland describes fifteen years of kidney weakness from heavy work, with tired mornings and dizzy spells, then notes steady improvement and cure after using Deans Kidney Pills, offered by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo at 50 cents a box.
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