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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1909
Page
4
A poetic fragment describes dawn in a valley with emerald light, cool shadows, and a morning breeze. Birds sing, dewy branches glow, and fairy music from streams fills the scene. The sky brightens to a flood of light as night ends, offering tranquil beauty and ample joy for the day.
Susan Needham, last of the Needhams, plans to sell and leave her old Marshfield home to roam four corners of the earth. A letter from her lawyer urges a companion, yet her reunion with a sailor sweetheart steadies her resolve to stay. The return of love settles her restless wanderings as she asserts her world has arrived.
A stark Atlantic meditation on fading ideologies and inherited authority. It laments the Divine Right of Kings and Property, warns that education and culture are haunted by dead ideas, and portrays the Senate and White House as beset by lingering specters.
A Chicago Tribune remark notes a lone highwayman with a gun has helped conserve Yellowstone Park’s resources by deterring souvenir hunters and vandals, ensuring safety as long as he remains at large.
The clever girl can fashion a new hair knot using 8 1/2 yards of shaded velvet ribbon and a yard or milliner's wire. Bows are wired on one side with four crinkly loops and two pointed ends, embroidered with small gold or silver paillettes. A hairpin secures the knot at the back for easy placement.
The article notes that separate waists are permissible if they match the skirt and highlights smart outfits with entirely separate net blouses made from the same cloth as the skirt. Shops show heavy nets in new season colors with minimal trimming, featuring flat piping or crochet buttons, favoring dotted Brussels net and coarse square-meshed net.
Purple is fashionable this season with hats in orchids flies heliotrope violets and roses. Velvet heliotrope hats suit winter wear while the all color hats remain popular. Many top hats feature black shapes with rich dark colored trimmings.
Women complained about braid and cloth buttons wearing out quickly. New rimmed buttons protect edges with a metal rim and a mold that can be covered with any material. Horn and bone used, with bone possibly looking better on rough serge or cheviot, while rims of metal finish the design.
Hatpins are used as trimming on every other hat with spear shaped heads or large round balls. They are made of paste composition and noted for effectiveness. Popular colors include jade green sapphire blue and violet in multiple shades.
Cashmere and Guipure lace regain popularity after a dip two years ago. Chantilly ivory lace appears in the coming season’s gowns with long scarf trims in silver thread. Long sleeves of net or chiffon, now common, should match the dress and its guimpe rather than remain white.
A description praises a charming raspberry silk voile dinner gown with gold embroidery on the bretelles and a long tunic edged in the same. Cedar red or cedar brown shades, resembling mahogany with softer tones, fail to become popular autumn colors while copper tones remain favored.
New striped materials are extending the vogue of stripes while in suitings the vogue shifts to vague indefinite plaid and check designs that are gaining favorable attention in Paris.
A brief note mentions a girl fond of novelties in dress. The red silk belt and red silk cravat are described as pretty when paired with white line waists, highlighting her fashion flair and preference for bright accessories.
An excerpt from the London Graphic argues editors mistake English readers adopting American styles. It notes English readers still prefer clear descriptive headlining brief paragraphs for quick reads, but for quiet reading they favor useful information moral reflections and short stories from their predecessors.
Colonel George W. Goethals chief engineer of the Isthmian Canal before leaving Washington said no weight would be given to protests against the operation of the commission commissary department and it would be continued for all classes of articles they desire to purch. He said the policy was necessary because of extortionate prices charged by merchants.
In a Philadelphia Inquirer item a teasing classroom exchange centers on identifying a remaining domestic animal. Tom admits the last creature is the tough muddy one with bristly fur, thriving in dirt.
An advertisement promotes Laxative Bromo Quinin as a single remedy to cure a cold in one day. The copy highlights a signature by E. W. Grove and states the product costs 25 cents. It markets the item as a world renowned remedy with broad applicability.
The will of Delos A. Blodgett, who died last month, is opened in Grand Rapids Michigan. The bulk of the estimated 10 to 12 million dollar estate is left in trust to his three children by a second marriage. Widow Daisy A. Blodgett receives 160 thousand dollars an annuity of 10 thousand dollars and the homestead with support. A separate note explains a method to blue small steel goods by saltpetre, iron pot dipping, cooling in petroleum and drying in sawdust.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for any cane of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites endorsement from J Cheney and a Toledo firm, noting internal blood action and digest mentions. The piece ends with a note about Hall's Family Pills and New York City's restaurant scene.
Inventors and manufacturers push cheaper quality goods across markets. The Ship Shavr razor, offered postpaid for twenty five cents, claims superior results and wide appeal, with buyers often owning higher priced razors and using multiple blades in rotation.
A fragmented notice cites claims about Mary Winslow's Syrup for Teething and a claim that a foreign remedy from India serves as a substitute for a mahogany product. The text mentions San Domingo and East India in a cryptic promotional context with unclear benefactors.
A mother recalls her son Clyde covered with eczema for nearly a year. Physicians failed to help, his head face and neck were scabbed and he rubbed until it fell off. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent he slept that night and within six weeks was perfectly well.
A jumbled OCR fragment mentions piles cures and ointments with claims of rapid relief and refunds. It also notes a claim about a Duke of Portland with a large private gallery and a rapid itch cure. A Romania rail fact cites locomotives using petroleum for fuel.
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