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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
2
A quoted poem celebrating seafaring courage and youth. Mildred Marguerite Whitney, linked to St Nicholas League, frames a voyage as a test of endurance and spirit as waves surge and winds howl.
Riddles about wordplay and puns that compare animals and objects. The lines mix questions with punchlines about slow dogs, old tables, easy thefts, and letters following honeysuckle.
A brief description of the guessing game Flowers and Trees. Players take turns solving a riddle where hints to syllables form the name of a flower. The example given uses a three part clue leading to Indigo. A minute is allowed for each guess and a ready reference list of flowers and trees can be consulted.
The article explains parhelion or sun-dog as a halo caused by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere bending light. It describes refraction dispersion and prismlike crystals creating rainbow colors and intensified bright spots near the sun.
A boy named Stanley feeds animals at a menagerie every Sunday with peanuts for monkeys and sugar for Big Ben the elephant. After teasing Big Ben with a pin he is splashed by a trunkful of water but learns his lesson and stays friends with the elephant.
A short tale about Lillian who leaves her only doll a corncob with calico in a tree hollow while her widow mother works. She sets off for a walk early in the morning, returning soon after to the familiar hiding place.
Travelers visit a widow and learn of her late daughter who kept a corncob adorned with rags in a tree. They give Lillian a wax doll from their niece and return with a new toy for the child. Lillian discovers the wax doll hanging in the tree, and she cherishes it thereafter.
Uncle Hiram explains how to make a cornstalk fiddle with joints like bamboo and edge troughs for strings. He recalls making fiddles and bow, comparing fun to carving jack o lanterns and promising stories about pumpkin vine siphons.
In an English club dinner in Hong Kong a white haired, elderly visitor reacts to a letter marked in Chinese. He deciphers an envelope note reading This is for the old baboon with white fur, startling the hall porter and revealing the scholar’s command of Chinese.
A customer at the candy counter complains that yesterday’s kisses are hard and stale. The sales lady defends the batch, saying they usually keep only fresh candies and that those in question came from an older batch.
A pantry jar for sifted flour saves time for busy housewives. Wear a carbon flannel mitten when using the oven to protect the hand from burns and keep from touching hot gas stove surfaces.
Readers in New Haven eye denim and burlap curtains decorated with trees art nouveau motifs and vine or poinsettia designs. The designs can be pasted or stitched along the edge and may suit libraries or dens though frequent washing may ruin fabric if not stitched.
Six months after birth a girl suffered severe eczema with no skin left and bleeding. She was carried on a pillow for ten weeks while doctors failed. After using Cuticura Remedies she recovered and has been clear for nearly three years. The family reports eight cakes of Cuticura Soap and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment. James J. Smith, Dumid, Va. Oct 14 and 22, 1906.
A Dickensian reflection on the lasting ache of severed habits and familiar bonds. The mind bears agitation and anxiety that scar the spirit more deeply than the passions, leaving enduring traces in quiet sorrow.
The piece describes weekly scrubbing of tubs tables and shelves with soap and warm water, favors fiber pails over heavy galvanized or wooden ones, and suggests cloths from woolen undergarments for polishing. It also lists several simple recipes for potatoes au creme celery relish sweet buns spiced mackerel and pumpkin pie.
Local applications cannot reach the seat of disease. Catarrh is described as a constitutional issue requiring internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed to act directly on blood and mucous surfaces. It is presented as a nonquack medicine from a physician’s prescription, using tonics and blood purifiers. Testimonials are promised. Toledo Ohio company supplies the product and constipation pills.
France increased wine production from 41 million hectolitres in 1895 1900 to 51 million in 1901 1906 and 57 million in 1907 counting Algeria imports, equating to over 136 litres per person.
A Philadelphia style testimonial column cites Mrs Williams of Gardiner Maine and Mrs Sperling of Chicago praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing female troubles without operations. The ad links the product to thirty years of use and invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
Pittsburg millionaire recalls lunch with Sir Thomas Lipton at the Ghezireh Palace Cairo and Lipton's reply he never smoked cigars or cigarettes. When asked what he smoked Lipton said bacon in the brief New York Tribune anecdote.
The marble staircase in the Glasgow municipal buildings cost £30,000, a figure noted in the AP report from New York.
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