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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1907
Page
3
A city restaurant anecdote from American Home Monthly features a waiter explaining the difference between roast lamb and roast mutton through pricing. The diner notes no taste difference, while the waiter points to a 25 cent bill yesterday for lamb and a 20 cent bill today for mutton as the decisive distinction.
B Hiram Mattingly of Vermillion South Dakota describes a decade of severe lower limb sores and widespread eruptions with itching and hair loss. After failing with top doctors and many remedies, three boxes of Cuticura Ointment and Soap restored health and hair, ending fourteen years of suffering and $50 to $100 wasted.
A reader notes eleven percent of the U S population is foreign born and quotes a humorous debate about joining a colonial ladies’ lineage group. The piece contrasts genealogical vanity with a report on British coastal steamers where turbine ships burn 0.472 ton of coal per mile at 22.2 knots while paddle steamers burn 0.614 ton at 20 knots, needing more crew.
Two men discuss food variety and a grocer who tries Postum Food Coffee. A customer explains proper brewing of fifteen minutes to avoid bitter taste, claiming health and digestion benefits. The tale promotes Postum as a pure liquid food and references The Road to Wellville.
A nostalgic poem by Horace Seymour Keller from the New York Sun expresses a child’s longing for grandpa’s house during vacation. The speaker imagines carefree adventures barefoot in grass, mud puddles, and climbing trees, promising to stop drums and avoid scolding. He vows to ride horses bareback and explore every fence, awaiting a return to childhood at grandma’s kitchen floor.
A home notes item describes several fish that clothe themselves, notably the antennarius of the Indian Seas. It covers itself with seaweed bound by glutinous strings and secures the garments with its fore fins.
A Memory Test Game uses six coins passed in a nonsequential order with players holding each coin two seconds. After all coins are seen, participants write the passing order. the closest guess wins. Also a Chicago Tribune note on a terrier named Beauty who eagerly wants gum and chews it fully before resting.
A school experiment demonstrates pitch changes with moving sound sources. A swift runner bears a bell while students chase toward him on level ground. As runners pass and move away, pitch drops, and the rate of vibrations reaching listeners changes with distance and motion.
Scientific American notes that pitch depends on vibration rate and explains that the bell’s pitch drops when the distance between bell and listener stops decreasing and starts increasing, marking the switch from approaching to receding sound.
A German restaurant tale of Emile the waiter and a rubber band cat provokes a lively scene as patrons watch a jolt from a rubber band send a cat airborne. The piece shifts to Sallie the dog, a regimental mascot in the Pennsylvania troops, famed for loyalty through Manassas to Bull Run and finally killed at Hatcher's Run, buried with honors.
Cleveland readers report a playful item about a Country Auto club formed by wealthy Clevelanders. The group plans touring runs teaching auto care, cooking, sleeping in cars, and even boiling eggs on radiators with a monkey wrench. President John Zangerele leads aims to keep drivers self reliant during breakdowns.
Tale from Tit-Bits recalls General Sir Ian Hamilton during a Ladysmith siege dinner where horse was served instead of beef. The joke ends with Ward revealing a servant swapped dishes, turning the joke on Hamilton and Ward as they admit both plates contained horse.
In Peary's early pole search stories a grateful Esquiman received an ancient Prince Albert coat and a worn sombrero. Years later a ceremonial visit revealed the same discarded vestments, shown on a funeral pile with six dogs guarding the remains beside a stone pile.
A London Tribune report notes rattling chains and ghostly disturbances at Hitchin Workhouse causing tramps to avoid the place. Officials vow to lay the ghosts, apply up-to-date methods, and restore trust and patronage among clients. The Ipswich corporation allows dogs as paying streetcar passengers with a fare of no cents.
Mrs Emma Stolt of Appleton testifies that Peruna greatly helped her long standing illness with inflammation and pain, after trying many remedies. A neighbor also advised the remedy and she credits it with improvement. Another testimonial from Berton White Church praises Peruna for catarrh of internal organs and breathlessness after six months of use. America leads in automobile manufacture and use.
A report notes Western Australia gold mines have paid dividends totaling more than 70 million dollars. The record cites sustained mining returns amid the era of expansion and investment in the region.
Miss Emma Shirley of Killbuck Ohio describes kidney disease with severe headaches dizziness and weakness. After two years of illness she began using Dean's Kidney Pills and reports twelve boxes cured her and she weighs six pounds more than before. Sold by all dealers Foeter-Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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