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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1908
Page
2
An old advertisement asserts deafness from Eustachian tube inflammation can be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promises $100 for any deafness case not cured and claims other products like Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Chicago Tribune notes prophecies of at least three railways across the Andes within years. A Valparaiso to Juncal line will extend through a long tunnel to Mendoza, with a trans continental tie to Argentina. A central Peruvian road rises 6000 feet in fifty miles and will reach the Ucayali River, then an 800 mile river trip to ocean navigation, 2000 miles from the Atlantic. A northern line could shorten travel further.
More than 700 acres were planted in tomatoes in 1907 in Claiborne County Tennessee for an estimated 1,000,000 bushels. About 2,000,000 quart cans were brought into the county at an outlay of $10,000. Nearly fifty canneries, large and small, handled the crop.
A reader describes abandoning coffee for Postum Food Coffee after a relative and herself experienced headaches. After trial, headaches vanished and she and another household banished coffee, with a friend switching after proper preparation. Postum Co. of Battle Creek, Michigan is cited. Read the booklet The Road to Wellness.
A collection of old kitchen preparations including Parkish Stew with browned beef and tomato sauce served over rice, Rolled Stuffed Steak with cherry stuffing and horse radish, Creole Danube slow cooked with beef and spices, and Eecalioped Oysters baked with buttered crumbs and oyster liquor.
The Senate favors the Haleavy measure while the House opposes it. Prohibitionists organize to push national legislation. A 3.5 million dollar appropriation for a New York post office passed. Senator Jeff Davis assails trusts in the Senate. Regis L. Post nomination as Governor of Porto Rico confirmed. Four Ohio postmasters nominated but rejected at Foraker and Dick’s request. Taft backs labor protection against injunctions. House session focused on rooms in the new Office Building. A joint resolution remitting 13 million dollars of Boxer indemnity to China passed the Senate. Culberson’s Panama bond information resolution adopted. Sixtieth Congress opened December 2 and adjourned December 21 for Christmas. 14,780 bills introduced that session. Several nominations favorable in the Senate include Frank Pierce for Interior, Ralph W. Taylor for Navy, and William C. Ralston for Assistant Treasurer.
A University Correspondent lists common exam mistakes and quirky misreadings. The piece parodies student errors by equating titles and terms with unrelated phrases and languages, highlighting humorous mistranslations and wordplay.
A New York Press column extols how the office boy shapes publication success and gates authorial fame amid rising paper costs and a crowded field. The piece argues the office boy holds influence over editors and writers, directing publishing outcomes.
A country editor, hurried by a line, clips an obituary, two want ads, and part of the society column from a city exchange. He pastes and alters them in a blank pager, reshaping the page from an east window viewpoint.
Dr John G Schurman president of Corbell University opposes the elective principle college. Lord Kelvin left an estate valued at 5 million dollars. Robert 8 McCormick Chicagoan received the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan. Yale President Hadley to finish Roosevelt lectureship in Berlin then return. Baron Takahira to succeed Viscount Aoki as Japanese Ambassador to the United States celebrated in Washington. Macon Eve worn in As a member of Privy Councils colleague and ae Sharles Tupper clerk of the Appropriations Committee of the House enters thirtieth year in service. General Eli Torrence of Minneapolis sent 70 to Alabama Home for Confederate Veterans. If Senator William James Bryan serves fifty years he would still be younger than Senator William Pinkney Whyte. Yale faculty persuaded Dean Henry P Wright to stay on as dean another year. he retires 1909 after a quarter century.
Hudson Wisconsin reports a new machinists union while Glass Workers Union holds 6000 members and $100000. British miners see wage Readjustments. Denver bartenders seek eight hours. Hamilton barbers demand higher wages. Notable notes include Russian Jewish labor progress and U S union actions in Baltimore backing police days off. T S Lewis elected UMWA president defeating W B Wilson by about 40000 in a 200000 vote.
Americans gave $12,500 to a memorial home. The Supreme Court ruled employer liability unconstitutional. Panama Canal costs rise to 200 million. Roosevelt sent photos of European officers to Congress. Britain faces railway and coal news amid international tensions. Public clemency and vivisection debates surface in the Northeast.
Mrs. Eliza Allen of Augusta Maine aged fifty is a great grandmother at forty nine. Mrs Theodore W Birney founder of Mothers Congress dies in Washington D C. A Devonshire farmer offers to marry Mrs Pankhurst England. Mrs Cobden Sanderson spoke in Faneuil Hall Boston to women. Mary Ramsey Lemons Wood died in Oregon aged 120 believed oldest in U S. Duch ess of Manchester born Helen Zimmerman Cincinnati has a daughter at Kylemore Castle Dublin. Henrietta Crosman and Maurice Campbell file for bankruptcy jointly owing 119447 dollars. Paris Polytechnic girls study mandolin while one learns automobiles. Mme Gould may resume American citizenship within one year. Henry Miller of California bequeaths six acres near Gilroy for girls training.
Phil King retires from racing. Lipton to challenge for America's Cup again. Keene enters Colin in Suburban. New Philadelphia Brooklyn Newark Paterson Baltimore Reading baseball league formed with Al W. Lawson president. Naval Academy dual meets at Annapolis with Carlisle Swarthmore and Penn State. Joe Thomas eyes heavyweight title after loss to Ketchel. Minot offers three cups for jumps weights and hurdles. Michigan football shows profit in 1907 with Ferry Field upgrades and over seven thousand cash on hand. Lipton Cup race likely Gravesend Bay to Fire Island Lightship and back. Keene says American turf needs more gentlemen racers focused on sport.
Mrs A Gregory of 2355 Lawrence St Denver writes she was nearly invalid for six years due to female troubles and an operation. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she regained perfect health and urges other suffering women with backache and bearing down pains to try it.
An old advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy for women’s ailments lasting thirty years. It claims to cure displacements inflammation fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration and invites readers to write for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
Africa leads gold production, with America following. The brief notes regional output rankings and shifts in global mining activity, highlighting the dominance of African nations in mining capacity and the rising role of the United States in the sector.
Mrs Frank Donahue recalls a boy with itching sores spreading from hands to body. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for four nights, the child was entirely cured. The note cites Kokomo Indiana and the date September 16, 1907.
Illinois reader sent 12c a year ago and earned 37.76 from a remarkable seed collection. Advertised seeds include Quick Carrot Earliest Cabbage Earliest Emerald Cucumber Market Lettuce Early Dinner Onion Strawberry Muskmelon Thirteen Day Radish and Berliner Earliest Cauliflower mailed postpaid. Joh Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wis A. C. L.
A dramatic wartime exchange aboard a ship shows a first interne and the Surgeon Commander diagnosing an apparent wound as a leak termed an incision on the outer integument. The commander orders treatment with sterilized cotton and plaster and to report if symptoms persist for possible consultation.
Bernard P. Woods of Lonaconing Maryland reports that hard work damaged his kidneys, causing fatigue dizziness and headaches for fifteen years. After using Deans Kidney Pills his condition improved steadily and he claims he was cured. The advertisement notes the pills cost 50 cents a box and were sold by all dealers through Boster-Milburn Co Buffland.
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