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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1909
Page
4
Miss M Eager recalls Anastasia at seven years old in St Petersburg riding in the Nevski street crowd. The young princess bows to a studying passerby and, noting his rude greeting, teaches him manners with charm. The tale ends with the boy bowing back and the girl saying she taught him.
Dr. G Stanley Hall warned that women’s colleges faced moral taint from evolving thought. President Mary E Woolley dismissed alarm, asserting that students remain undisturbed and institutions uphold purity.
A Boston Normal School professor argues that women should not teach in public schools after age thirty unless married. The piece disputes the view, noting that unmar ried women past thirty may still lead fulfilling lives and teach effectively.
The passage lists a flaky pie crust method using one cup flour, salt, shortening, butter and lard to create a stiff dough. It describes rolling to a quarter inch, folding in thirds, rolling again, and repeating three times. Two large pie plates can be lined, suitable for apple dumplings or one crust pies.
A Mount Holyoke professor collects exam samples to reassure critics about intellectual standards. Examples include Beowulf and Cramer’s Prayer Book, cited to illustrate refined scholarship. President Woolley announces a $10,000 legacy from Mrs Mary Dame Hall, a Sorosis leader.
The piece notes growing numbers of women in sales and touring as successful agents. It argues women gain leverage from being female, excels in corsets, apparel, cosmetics, and milinery, and challenges male wage norms. It questions teaching roles and hints at parental discipline examples.
A Philadelphia publication warns that diamonds may burn like coal, noting the paradox of arousing early and never proceeding to feed diamonds into a furnace. The piece uses a metaphor about waking too soon to reflect on dangers.
Sixty five percent of the nation’s platinum output comes from placer mines in Northern California and Southern Oregon, highlighting a regional concentration of this valuable metal’s production.
Receipts from the two day and evening event at the Hotel Martha Washington in New York City exceed $900, reflecting strong support for the suffrage cause. The bazaar benefited from a broad turnout and help from volunteers across segments of the movement.
A collage of old advertisements mentions Cuticura remedies curing dandruff and milk crust on a missionary's daughter, praises Guticura soaps, and cites Mrs Darling of Carthage Ohio. Other items promote Woolford Sanitary Lotion, Bramo Quin in e, and floor crack fillers from newspaper paste.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh at all stages, a constitutional disease treated through the blood and mucous surfaces. The ad offers $100 to anyone it cannot cure, and directs sent testimonials to F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo, with the note that Take's Family Pills relieve constipation.
The Italian Government established a dedicated bureau to electrify the state railways. It is making rapid strides in the project, signaling a swift modernization effort.
Letters from Mrs Willie Edwards and Mrs Joseph Handy praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing fibroid related weakness and long standing female ills. The ad asserts 30 years of use and offers rewards for proving testimonials false while inviting sick women to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts.
Popular Mechanics notes junk dealing has grown to massive scale with over 25 million dollars traded yearly in Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Railroad alone ships 10 000 to 20 000 tons of waste monthly to city junk dealers, with street railway owners disposing of nearly the same amount.
A campaign is underway to introduce trackless trolley lines in Ireland with an initial likely route from Donnybrook near Dublin to Bray, a seaside resort, signaling a new urban transit proposal.
Herbal composed tea claimed to benefit the entire system by regulating the liver kidneys stomach and bowels. A recent decree bans women from bullfights in Spain.
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