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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
3
A Washington Star fragment shows Ted and Ned and Lou around a fire dreaming of one wish each. Ted contemplates travel and becoming a lord while Ned yearns to be a singer and star on stage. Lou muses on wishing for two wishes, hesitating over her choice.
Fish have no eyelids so they cannot close their eyes. Some fish such as mackerel and sea mullet have a transparent film over the eyeball and certain sharks possess a nictitating membrane that can wink, controlled by a muscle.
A twelve year old girl at the New York Central Park Zoo sparked curiosity among about twenty women and men by asking why the giraffe has a long neck and fore legs. The explanation points to feeding height and defense, noting the animal’s need to reach leaves and to spot threats from a distance.
A Field and Stream feature describes how squirrels vanish and avoid detection. Varying poses including flat against trunks, on a branch, or curled up with a flicking tail help concealment. The piece notes their alert signals and rapid leaps to vanish beyond the ridge.
Ruth helps in a kitchen scene as grandma teaches that whistling empties the cup while singing fills it. Ruth is told to sing about Little Jack Horner to make the cup full, and she does so successfully. Characters include Ruth grandma mamma and Hannah with a goose and pudding for company.
A description of a magician style trick using a glass jar with a liquid mass to keep an egg perpetually rotating within without surfacing or sinking. The text notes a peculiarity in the shell allows the experiment to be performed and begins with filling a jar half full.
An egg sinks through water into an underlying layer of hydrochloric acid, then is coated by bubbles that reduce its density. It settles on the boundary, rotates slowly around its axis for over an hour, as bubbles shift from top to bottom and dissolve, raising the egg’s center of gravity.
The Russian novelist Turgenieff recalls a boyhood bird shooting incident. A golden pheasant’s mother shields her nest while the dying chick triggers guilt. His father approves the shot, but the boy vows never to harm living creatures, declaring life more beautiful than death.
A Washington Star item describes simple magnet experiments using a horseshoe magnet and needles. Readers test poles, magnetize needles, float them on cork sails to form shapes, and observe movement under a magnet, with notes on heating and cooling nails affecting attraction.
The Well-Informed world favors a gentle yet prompt liquid laxative made of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. The California Fig Syrup Co. markets this genuine mixture as a trustworthy, ethical remedy used by physicians for family use. Price fifty cents per bottle.
Public notice touts salt usage in Britain at seventy two pounds per person annually. It promotes Peco Ointment claiming cure from piles in six to fourteen days with money back guarantee. Fifty cents price stated for treatment.
Automatic umbrella distributors will be installed in all Berlin railway stations next month to serve travelers at fifty cents per umbrella. If the umbrella is returned within two days the borrower receives forty cents.
Mrs. James M. Long of Staunton Virginia testifies that Doan’s Kidney Pills cured her backache and urinary troubles in January 1903 and, four and a half years later in June 1907, she reports no kidney trouble since. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A suburban minister preached that each blade of grass holds a sermon and the next day a congregant finds him mowing the lawn, remarking that he appears to be cutting his sermons short.
Mrs David Brown of Locke Arkansas reports two years of eczema relief after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills. She suffered itching burning sleeplessness and immobility before selecting the remedies. After three uses her ankles healed quickly and a year later no eczema returned. Swans have been known to live 300 years.
The piece argues young people fall into two groups those who never think and those who think wrongly. It says right thinking requires knowledge, which the young lack in abundance. A youth voicing mistaken opinions isn’t foolish but shows he has begun to think and is in a hopeful path toward progress.
The snippet touts a laxative product Bromo Quinine with a claimed one day cold cure and mentions a signature E. W. Grove. It adds a note about ground chestnuts replacing flour in parts of France and cites a 25 cent price.
An assortment of agricultural and medicinal ads tout Emperor William Oats and Silver King Barley with claimed high yields and $3,500 per 5 acres in 1907. The notice offers seed catalogs for 10c and a free additional seed package, alongside various tonics and remedies such as Kline's Great Nervine, Brown's Bronchial Tracts, Garfield Tea, and Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
The article portrays a vast duck presence in China with ducks seen everywhere from roads and ponds to farms and cities. It notes extensive duck-hatching facilities able to produce tens of thousands of ducklings annually and calls ducks a staple delicacy across the country.
A patient is urged to write to Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts for confidential guidance on female illness. The article touts her thirty years of correspondence with sick women and claims her letters reveal powerful knowledge to help cases.
Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allentown Pa describes years of organic derangement and female weakness with headaches and nerves. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after following advice, claiming she is now well and urging others to try the remedy.
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been presented as a standard remedy for females. It claims to cure displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains backache bearing-down feeling flatulency indigestion dizziness and nervous prostration.
A government issued work titled The Horse Book has reportedly sold over 3,000,000 copies, marking it as one of the era’s top selling titles.
The aphorism mislabels the canary as a petite eater, noting that a canary consumes more than its own weight in food each day, a claim attributed to a New York brief.
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