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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1908
Page
3
The article reviews historic fears of nitrate depletion since 1898 and outlines efforts to extract usable nitrogen from the air. It describes Chile saltpeter limits, early substitutes, and the shift to air based methods including cyanamide and calcium nitrate, and highlights industrial efforts at Niagara Falls and tests in Switzerland.
A seven year old boy with insomnia is counseled by his physician father to count to one hundred and again to one hundred before sleep. The father’s plan yields quiet that night, but the cure remains unproven.
A boy asks his father what comes after trillions as the father disappears into his own bedroom. The wakeful child calls "Papa" but receives no answer, leaving the boy in uncertainty at a moment of domestic suspense.
John Copping, alleging to be England's oldest police superintendent, has submitted his resignation to the Huntingdonshire justices after an active meritorious fifty five years of service.
Government experts study seaweed to assess its economic value. In Syria near Kferie, asphalt layers are found along the Latakia road to Aleppo, deemed rich and nearly inexhaustible by mining engineers.
Prof Carl von Noorden discusses why men gain weight after marriage as wives cook favorite dishes. Vegetable milk from soja beans imitates cow milk in Japan. Denmark plans wind powered electricity. 15 mph wind yields 8 hp, 20 mph yields 18 hp. Prof George Merrill travels to Butte to study Canyon Diablo crater and resolve its origin debate.
A Chicago man built a simple electric screen to kill flies. Wires run to a small dynamo terminal, insulated, so when a fly touches the screen it dies instantly and painlessly, providing amusement.
The essay extols apples as living, tactile wonders. Burroughs personifies fruit, calling it companion and noting its tactile warmth color and resilience. He marvels at its compact form and sun varnish while imagining its independent life and potential to be wounded or repaired.
An expert golfer delivers a vigorous stroke striking a trespasser near the edge of the course. The injured man recovers and receives a five dollar bill from the apologetic golfer in a brief exchange.
Elbert Hubbard recalls finishing a lecture to a thousand inmates at a state insane asylum when an elderly woman rushed the aisle crying I cant stand this nonsense any longer The superintendent notes this as the first sign she is regaining sanity.
A quotation from the Atlanta Constitution captures a colorful old colored deacon who jokes that if the Bible said a rat would swallow Jonah he would believe it. He notes there were no rat snake creatures in that day.
Chancellor Day plans a long vacation abroad. Root trains at Muldoon's sanitarium in New York. J Pierpont Morgan awarded Doctor of Laws by Yale. William Dean Howells wintered in Rome and visited London. Todd returns to Amherst from a South American Mars expedition with about 10 000 photos. Tillman has never commanded a war vessel yet leads Naval Affairs Committee. John D Bristol longtime National Academy of Design member. Representative Parker of Deadwood dies after three weeks illness. Frederick Moore living in London after marriage. former New Orleans home. Culberson praised as capable public man. William R Smith, Scottish born, runs Washington Botanical Garden longer than any other federal appointee. National monument for Grover Cleveland favored by prominent city leaders.
Describes a cheap extinguisher recipe using lime salt and water in small bottles. The mixture, when broken near a fire, will extinguish flames and is touted as cheaper than commercial extinguishers.
Mrs. J. B. Renaud of Montreal says twenty five years of eczema on her leg was cured after using Cuticura Remedies. She describes severe leg ulcers and a lost-life risk before swelling diminished and new skin formed. She reports doctors recommended amputation but the Cure came after two months and seven years of healing.
A brief reflection on life’s burdens noting three modes of bearing ills. Indifference remains the common path, philosophy the ostentatious, and religion the most effective in alleviating distress. New York edition.
A collage of medical patent remedies and consumer products. Kline s Great Nerve Restorer promises cure for nervous diseases with trial bottle and treatise. Winslow s Soothing Syrup claims teething relief. Allen s Foot Ease offers foot relief with a 25 cent bottle. Also notes on beards and a 1906 cocoa crop totaling 149 020 695 kilograms.
The advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as highly effective for women's health citing numerous testimonials from readers and letters in the Pinkham Laboratory. It claims the remedy avoids drugs, is wholesome, and helps prevent surgical operations by restoring the feminine system to a healthy state.
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