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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
3
The article highlights the enduring plain shirt waist as core fashion, noting sleeves and gown contrasts, a versatile blouse with Bretelles, and various fabrics from madras to linen. It also covers bonnet hat decorations featuring real blue and meadow brown butterflies and care for color retention.
In ancient times dentistry spread from Phoenicians to Etruscans and Greeks, with Romans popularizing dentures. Notable finds include bone and horn dental appliances, gold wiring in bodies, and ivory and jeweled teeth, dating from five to six thousand years before Christ to the first century. The craft waned in the Middle Ages but revived under surgeons like Ambroise Paré and the era of Louis XIV. Also included is a tale of a burning ice lake caused by natural gas bubbles warming via a skate-hole blaze in Atchison.
The Maiden Insurance Company, a Danish nobility institution, enrolls a female child at birth. The girl pays a sum and annual to the treasury, and at 21 gains a fixed income and princely residence until marriage or death. The society, with generations of existence, claims to banish poverty among maiden ladies in Denmark.
In autumn and early winter a goose market gathers up to 5,000,000 geese to Warsaw. Geese walk to market, from distances up to 100 miles, to protect feet they are shod with tar and sand. The gooseherd pasters them by walking on melted tar then sand, creating durable tar and sand footwear for the journey.
A Westerner visiting New York was accosted by a highwayman who demanded money. The driver replied you can live in New York without brains but not without money, a sharp line cited by the Christian Register as a humorous regional quip.
An advertised remedy Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to cure catarrh, a constitutional disease, with testimonials and a $100 reward for any failure. The ad notes internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces and references J. Curry & Co. as distributors. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills and wine yields in France Spain and Algeria.
A mother recalls her infant's severe Cuban Itch suffering. After ineffective doctoring, Cuticura Soap Ointment remedies brought rapid relief. sores dried within two weeks, and the child recovered fully. The letter notes cost and life-saving impact, dated May 17, 1906.
An advertisement extols health and happiness through proven products. It urges buying genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna from California Fig Syrup Co. and notes widespread physician approval. Also mentions Canadian Pacific Railway land grants and current holdings free of bonded debt valued increasing over time.
A fragmentary OCR shows a collage of 19th century patent medicine and product claims. Items mention Dr H R Kline nerve restorers, Winslow soothing syrup, Woolford's lotion, Paro Ointment for piles, and notes on early inventions and printing. The text mixes medical cures with historical facts in a buyer beware style.
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