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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1908
Page
2
Nixon Waterman in Puck derides revered tales from Washington to Pocahontas and Shakespeare. He claims famous myths about the Delaware crossing and Valley Forge, Billy the Kid, and Yankee Doodle are false, urging readers to discard these fables as buncombe.
Jack Elton learns his fiancée Kitty may have hidden a past romance with Captain Riley when a photo leads him to question her fidelity. Misunderstood pasts collide as Riley reveals a prior love story and Miss Martin’s role, sending Jack to seek truth, mend, and reconcile.
The New York American notes there are only about three women working as embalmers in the city, earning ten dollars or more daily and sometimes over a hundred per week. Employers say women are scarce due to lack of appeal of the work, ease of embalming, and strong sympathy toward the bereaved, with few entering training programs despite available jobs.
A charged exchange unfolds as she lowers her gaze and he lifts his head. She feels cold dread while he burns with fury and despair. Emotions surge through their confrontation, ending with a tense departure and the grim realization that life may never be the same.
The note discusses Matthew Arnold adopting the phrase Sweetness and Light from Swift, who used it about bees for honey and wax. Arnold applied it to culture, framing it as love and truth prevailing through cultivated society.
A humorous exchange quoted in the Chicago Record-Herald features a teacher asking why one student attends Sunday school. Hittle Edgar answers voluntarily, while the teacher quips about Baptists needing coercion.
Dr H Campbell Thomson of England uses the cinema to record nervous disease patients, photographing at 16 frames per second to show movements. A Saxon firm introduces a new road dust binder called apokonin, a mix of heavy coal tar distillate residues and high boiling hydrocarbons.
A survey blends marine mammals with practical tests and new tech. It covers whale and dolphin biology, a lead acetate sewer gas detection method, ship deck vibration reduction using rubber rests, quartz thermometer tubes for high heat, and Tetard’s crow deterrent treating seeds with coal tar petroleum and phenic acid to delay germination.
The Valve World explains tinfoil is a lead core with a thin tin coating on both sides. A tin pipe is formed to an appropriate thickness, filled with molten lead, then rolled to extreme thinness. The tin coats spread with the lead, maintaining a uniform tin layer as thin as 0.001 inch.
A medical writer claims the apple is a safe bedtime snack with brain boosting phosphoric acid. He says a ripe apple before sleep aids digestion, liver function, and mouth cleanliness, while promoting sound rest and preventing throat issues.
In cases of cold or overfatigue there is nothing that so quickly acts as a stimulant as a cup of hot milk. Heat it just to the boiling point and sip slowly. A little salt may be added to make it more palatable.
In Philadelphia a sale of political works included 250 quarter volumes of the Congressional Record bound in half Russia. They were bid in at 2 cents per volume.
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