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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1908
Page
3
An Anabel Wilson of North Branch Michigan recounts a childhood eczema cure using Cuticura remedies after a physician advised their use. The testimony notes severe facial and scalp involvement and claims complete recovery with Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
A couple tells how coffee harmed health, prompting a switch to Postum. The husband’s severe illness and yellowing skin improved after quitting coffee and using Postum, followed by the wife’s weight gain and strength. The couple notes many avoid Postum by not preparing it correctly. They credit Postum with restored health and energy. The ad cites Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and urges reading "The Road to Wellville" in packages. There's a Reason.
The New York Press notes a Paris inspired trend of full black outfits in church, highlighting a St Mary the Virgin gown with a black and white checker skirt over white mousseline, a black satin shanting jacket, long gloves, and a jaunty black saucer hat with white plume accents.
New York Tribune notes Ada Chambers, praised by Charles Bond of Boston, will study singing in Europe funded by Bond. Baroness Etta von Ruhmer introduced her. Chambers, 21, sang with Sousa two seasons, faced family opposition, and now pursues a delayed foreign education.
Shaker sisters from East Canterbury New Hampshire display cloaks based on the English 1774 pattern worn by their founders. The collection includes broadcloth opera cloaks lined in satin in colors from blues and mauves to pinks and reds. Also offered are woven work baskets pincushions and dolls clothing. A sister notes slower sales amid banking troubles while the Munson period fashions attract fashionable patrons.
A sixty year old declares patience with centenarian aims irrelevant and mocks living long at any cost while recounting a seventy year old's quest for a bone strengthening food. She notes some doctors oppose the centenarian craze and stresses natural limits as cited in the New York Tribune.
A fragment recounts Moscheles boasting of his staccato piano technique. An American pupil quips that if piano keys were red hot pokers he would not touch them at all, illustrating wit in a music lesson anecdote from Youth's Companion.
A Brunswick woman bought a hat with a lottery ticket instead of cash. Weeks later the ticket won 15000 pounds, and her husband failed to secure a larger share from the merchant, receiving only 25 pounds after the cost of the hat. The item reportedly cost 14975 pounds.
William T. Stead backs a new botanical cultivation method from Dr Bottomley at King's College London to improve barren lands. The process claims longer lasting fertilizing microbes and cheaper inoculation material, with profits split to fund a biological research professorship.
A declamatory note on clothes pins outlines playful calculations. It claims ten pins cost one cent in the United States and estimates a national total of 750 million pins for American families. It imagines vast lengths and distances if all pins were laid end to end or stacked as a cordwood pile.
An elderly man tests his grandson Rufus with a musket and a bottle as targets in a rural scene. The exchange shows family humor and a moment of reassurance about Rufus’s eyesight and steadiness.
The Washington Herald notes explorers found vertebrae fragments larger than any before. Prof Din a O'Sear concludes these pieces are from the backbone of the winter of 1906, a dramatic discovery amid a harsh season.
Annie Catron of Cincinnati endorses Peruna for severe catarrh. The page includes various health and product notes, almanac promotions, a law and governance aside, spooky street trivia, and a Harper's Weekly fragment about Chinese cracker exports, with multiple ads and miscellaneous items.
L Wood of Fentress Norfolk Co Virginia, a prominent merchant, suffered months of back and kidney pain with irregular kidney secretions. After medical treatment failed he used Dougs Kidney Pills and within a box endured four days of pain but passed a stone and has had no further kidney trouble. Sold by dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo.
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