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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1908
Page
2
The Detroit News notes a poor man’s will rarely faces contest while John D Rockefeller urges contentment. The Arkansas Gazette hints Rockefeller fears others may take his wealth. The Chicago Record Herald laments people would accept their living if others were not richer.
The Pittsburg Gazette notes a philologist seeking a link between the words millionaire and millinery provokes a ready male reaction.
The Keenebee Journal notes that one transatlantic line has begun staffing ships with trained nurses, and argues that rising fares make even moderate travelers uneasy about ocean crossings.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a Boston barber embracing vaudeville, suggesting the razor-wielding monologist often holds audience attention more patiently than his non shaved peers.
Sir Purdon Clarke notes some paintings at the Metropolitan Museum may not be genuine. The New York American argues fake antiques are acceptable if no one speaks of their authenticity.
The Indianapolis News argues grand juries must be above suspicion and juries ruled by evidence, warning that corrupt springs poison local governance. Forgan testifies in Washington that national extravagance sparked financial turmoil, while in Chicago a few prominent citizens attend a rose feast with an actress, stepping beyond decorum.
A critique contrasts Nietzsche’s blunt Carlyle portrait with The San Francisco Chronicle’s alarm about America’s discipline deficit. The essay argues weak discipline breeds lawlessness, urging strict rules in family and school to build character from childhood onward.
A countess like Margaret learns she has a year to live but the diagnosis shifts. She uses her time to win Robert Kaye from his fiancé Muriel Hayden, sparking love, betrayal, and a deadly turn as life unexpectedly resumes.
Poem notes a lovers hand in mine during a Maytime stroll. It compares his beloved to sunshine roses and honey, with bees buzzing and birds mating as the world overflows with life and the speaker declares, will you marry me. Card credits Elia Myrover Robinson in Woman's Home Companion.
The article notes tropical seas hold a higher salt content than northern latitudes, reflecting regional differences in evaporation and freshwater input and their impact on marine chemistry.
A recipe instructs to chop almonds or pecans, mix with sugar and egg yolks, grate chocolate, add crackers and baking powder, fold in beaten egg whites, and bake in a pan with oiled paper. Grape juice and vanilla provide flavor in this American Home Monthly home dessert guide.
The article notes lecithin in egg yolk is valuable for invalids and that a raw egg is often ordered daily. It advises adding lemon juice for relish rather than vinegar, and describes swallowing the intact yolk with lemon and salt for consumption.
A detailed method for a boiled salad dressing using cornstarch sugar salt dry mustard pepper vinegar and boiling water. Cook until smooth then blend in butter eggs and egg whites. Keeps two to three days and pairs with lettuce cold meat salads and hot dishes.
Instructions describe trimming, washing, and boiling a leg of mutton with salt vinegar peppercorns carrot onion and rice. Cook five minutes hard then simmer fifteen to eighteen minutes per pound. Prepare a milk thickener with rice liquor and lemon juice and parsley or capers for serving.
Practical tips on cleaning and preserving items including alpaca fabric cups and plates, furniture with kerosene, mildew with buttermilk, tea stains with ashes, and using salt for cows. Also mentions cooking fowls with vinegar, washing poultry wings to clean windows, gum in silver to prevent tarnish, and stove polish mixed with vinegar sugar and ash plus newspaper as polish cloth substitute.
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