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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
3
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a reliable laxative option. It emphasizes cleansing and gentle relief without debility or dosage escalation, notes physician approval, and urges purchase only from the California Fig Syrup Co. through leading druggists.
A testimonial claims a baby girl with severe eczema was cured in three months using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment after other doctors failed. The note, dated May 2 and 20, 1907, gives the caregiver’s name and address in St. Louis.
An advertisement asserts only one Bromo Quinine exists and carries the signature of E. W. Grove. It claims the product is used worldwide to cure a cold in one day and is priced at 25 cents.
A remark from Lady's Pictorial notes French visitors observe Parisians walk more attentively and find English women lacking in grace, highlighting differences in gait between nations.
Cloverport Kentucky police judge J H Wills offers to answer questions from kidney backache and bladder ailment sufferers. He endorses Dean's Kidney Pills as the best remedy he has known and invites letters. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
A passage from Robert Hichens The Spell of Egypt reflects on the Sphinx as proof of the soul beyond death. It contrasts atheistic awe with reverence for the quiet, sunlike repose of the monument and hints that the Nile’s endless flow mirrors the finite seeking the infinite.
Two travelers recount changing European travel fashions and hotel life. They describe ornate aging beauty efforts culminating in a famous steam facial, then ponder whether youth or virtue should define happiness and a woman’s worth.
Tarbell lauds a 40000 mile pipeline network feeding key Standard Oil refineries including Kansas City Whiting Lima Cleveland Buffalo Olean Pittsburg Philadelphia New York Harbor Baltimore. The system drains and distributes oil with minimal noise, paying producers market price and offering certificates as gold in value.
The piece asserts Peruna as an ethical household remedy offered to the public, not doctors, with labeled ingredients and promises of testimonials, photographs, and openness about composition. It proclaims campaign against imitators and claims Peruna cures catarrh with growing global expansion.
In a London Sketch vignette, Dean Stanley and a friend travel from Monreale to Palermo. Stanley, shivering with cold, unknowingly pulls a night shirt from his bag and wears it over his clothes, entering Palermo amid astonished crowds.
An old negro preacher uses a rough parable about a possum to illustrate a point. He jokes that his text was not exactly in the Bible but he relied on the metaphor to reach his congregation.
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