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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1908
Page
3
A cheerful dog named Bill roams the country and helps a hen who has misplaced an egg. He searches until he finds the unbroken egg in a safe nook. The hen gratefully rewards him with three tail feathers and patent chicken food.
The excerpt extols the wild boar as exceptionally fierce and brave among animals. It notes that a charging boar can fell an elephant, that a boar can hold its own against a full-grown tiger, and that no horse can outrun a boar in a first burst. It also mentions a man on a thoroughbred Arab failing to cut out a boar in retreat.
A child weaver answers adults by saying she completes each tangle first. The tale from Home Herald shows teamwork and patience. A Philadelphia Record memory recalls Charley the wise horse that safely fetched girls from school and was warmly rewarded.
A narrator recalls advice from an old man about crying at different days of the week. It outlines that crying on Monday is unlucky and other days bring various harms such as red eyes, unhappy thoughts, or being hard to stop, ending with a suggestion that children should only account cry.
The passage recalls rules given by an old man to a child about bedtime and behavior. It emphasizes that the guidance is meant for the very young, the millions of little boys and girls who strive to do right, noting that older children may not find them useful.
In a light domestic tale from the Washington Star, teen siblings Ted and Dolly clash over gloves. Ted secretly pilfers Dolly’s tan gloves via a transom heist after church, flaunting the theft with suave pride. Dolly vows to hide future possessions.
German electrician Robert Hopfeldt applies autogenous welding to solder aluminum wires achieving a direct aluminum to aluminum union. Wood shrinkage parallel to grain is negligible compared with perpendicular shrinkage, allowing longitudinal shrinkage to be neglected in volume calculations.
The article notes eucalyptus blue gum shrinking about 26 percent of dry volume, red cedar about 7 percent, hickory around 20 percent, and long leaf pine about 15 percent. It also mentions an inventor claiming to make smokeless coal by extracting smoke forming material before burning and discusses steamboat safety laws needing non-burnable and non-sinkable passenger boats.
Charles Von Soehnen of Colfax Washington testifies that thirty years of kidney trouble and back pain plagued him. After using Deans Kidney Pills he reports near complete relief and praises the product. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Michigan man vows never to cut his hair again until Harriman returns money he got from the Alton deal. The caller suggests the man is either crazy or completely bald.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment that acts on the blood and mucous surfaces. The ad offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and urges readers to send for testimonials from Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Sir William White, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, announced experiments with a torpedo boat fitted with Dr Schilick's gyroscopic stabilizer. He testified to its remarkable steadiness in all cases and said its practical effect was to extinguish the motion.
Humorous quip from Harper's Weekly notes a Yale or Harvard stereotype with light bite. The line contrasts telltale signs of a Harvard man versus general understanding, reflecting campus humor from New Haven.
The Horseless Age argues that France requires capital stock to be tested by a government official before share sale, while England's Pennington-Lawson swindle spurred reform. It claims stock jobbing fuels depressions and urges legislation and public sentiment to curb massive frauds damaging global commerce.
Constantinople report in the London Lancet cites Ottoman focal press asserting remarkable longevity across the empire. Notable case is Hadji Reif of Keni Baghtha said to be 134, a long serving bookbinder at Pancaldi military school, with his father said to have lived 142.
An advertisement promotes John A Salter Seed Co offerings to gain 250000 customers in 1908 mailing free plant and seed catalog with various vegetable and flower seeds, postpaid for 12c or 16c with extra Berliner Earliest Cauliflower. Irrigation tips cited for South Africa and various patent medicine pitches included.
Thezy resident Vacheron near Lyons pursues vipers for a living. He has captured 489 vipers so far this season, with a high of 22 in one day last Monday. Last year he caught 497 vipers.
A Portland resident recalls a Montreal Star anecdote about a mother rebuking her daughter for disrespecting her father. The child replies that the mother chose him, not her. The tale highlights familial tensions and parental authority at a breakfast table.
A Yonkers Statesman snippet recalls an early lecture and jokes about the first South Pole expedition dated 1567. The remark humorously imagines lectures existing in that era.
Mrs Lily Hedge of Camberwell Green England reports her son Owen healed from severe eczema after trying Cuticura Remedies. From infancy to age fifteen his skin was severely raw and he endured sleepless misery. Four hospitals failed to help before the remedies delivered a marvelous cure.
An old advertisement touts Bromo Quinine as the universal cold remedy with a 25 cent price and a signature by E W Grove. It references a rapid itch cure by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion and notes recovery statistics for insanity. Leather trunks are mentioned as an ancient Rome item.
Letters from Mrs. Williams of Gardiner Maine and Mrs Alvina Sli of Chicago praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing female troubles without operation. The ad notes the remedy has helped thousands with displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and related symptoms and invites sick women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
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