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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
3
Feminine News Notes and Social Probes Across Cities
A roundup of early 20th century items highlights Hetty Green who shuns phones at seventy odds, Barnard freshmen win the college field day, and the Woman's Self-Supporting League opens HQ for suffrage work. Mme Anna Gould amplifies French aristocracy, a custard pie feud enters a Brooklyn suit, a Japanese editor calls the New York girl the most unaffected woman, Mae Wood targets Senator Platt, Judge McCall nullifies a marriage, Public Schools’ Athletic League dances at Stuyvesant, New York hosts embalmers amid low pay, Italy hosts its first women’s congress focusing on education and welfare, and Clara Brett Martin seeks Parliament after Canada’s first woman lawyer achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hetty Green
Barnard
Mme
Anna Gould
Brooklyn
New York
Mae Wood
Senator Platt
McCall
New York Supreme Court
Helen Maloney
Arthur H. Osborn
Public Schools’ Athletic League
Stuyvesant High School
New York City
Italy
Rome
Clara Brett Martin
Canada
Opium Dens Abolished in Crown Colonies
The British House of Commons unanimously passed a resolution to abolish the licensing of opium dens in crown colonies. The move targets licensing depots and aims to end sanctioned opium sales in administered territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Grape-Nuts Endorsed by Health Board Leader
Dr. talks of food urging Grape-Nuts as a perfect food. He cites personal recovery from malnutrition and heart palpitations using Grape-Nuts with milk. The letter extols its science and promises readers a reason to try the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
Wellville
Mechanistic biology vs vitalism in a university talk
Professor Edmund B. Wilson of Columbia University argued for the mechanistic view that the human body is a machine and urged using it as a working program. He rejected vitalism as unscientific and discussed Darwinian evolution, natural selection, and the unfinished explanations for the origin of the fit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University
Edmund B. Wilson
Wilson
Archaeus
Darwin
de Vries
Agassiz
Linnaeus
A Simple Man Grant Character Revealed in Last Days
The piece contrasts Ulysses S. Grant childhood humility with his stern Civil War image. It notes his mild manners, soft voice, and natural shyness, suggesting illness amplified his human side beyond battlefield reputation. Dr. Shrady’s reflection anchors the portrait in Century magazine prose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Vicksburg
Earthworms and Squirrels Aid Forest Growth
An American naturalist proposes earthworms and squirrels help foresters by moving and storing seeds. Dry maple seeds enter worm burrows, germinate there, and some survive favorable moist seasons in the process of natural forest regeneration.
Sour Milk Through Time in Cuisine and Medicine
The article traces sour milk as an ancient staple used for nourishment and healing from early civilizations to modern Eastern diets. It notes Greeks and Romans valued curdled milk for tonic effects and cites empirical medical use, while highlighting fermented milk as a common daily diet and its proposal as a life-prolonging remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical Journal
Daily Thought Quote From Prentice Mulford
A brief reflective line noting that thought nourishes the spirit much like bread nourishes the body.
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Prentice Mulford
New Blaugas Illuminates From Germany at 15 Cents a Pound
A German professor unveils Blaugas a new illuminating gas purchasable by the bottle at 15 cents per pound. Mills produce ultra thin sheet iron with 15 000 sheets making one inch thickness and light passes through like tissue. Electromagnetic cranes and nets prove efficient lifting heavy iron loads and twenty five thousand pound capacities. A bluing method dips polished steel in saltpetre melts then cools in petroleum and sawdust. Lead wool offers modernized gas and water joint calking replacing hemp and molten lead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blau
Germany
German invented powder claims no flareback in large guns
The article describes a German powder said to prevent flareback regardless of caliber. Its exact composition is unknown but suspected to include nitroglycerin nitro cellulose and vaseline with a small amount of another chemical allegedly preventing flareback. Fatigue is attributed to muscular waste poisoning and may initially stimulate mental and muscular function in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Electric Furnaces For Sheffield Steel Trials
The Engineer notes ongoing use of Kjelling type electric furnaces in Sheffield to produce crucible quality cast steel. A furnace will be erected at Sheffield University Technical Department for student use. Patent owners claim a furnace capable of commercial high grade steel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheffield
Technical Department
Sheffield University
Pistol Tax Drives Cowboy To Lease In Texas
A Texas hardware dealer explains a 60 percent tax on pistol sales, pushing a cowboy to lease a six shooter for 50 years rather than buy. The dealer notes the law aims to tax pistols out of existence and has been in effect for over nine months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Peruna cures long lasting catarrh claims Sophia Kittleson
Miss Sophia Kittleson of Evanston Illinois writes she suffered catarrh for twenty five years and improved after Peruna. Her brother advised the remedy and she reports the chronic condition is gone and health improved. She recommends Peruna to others troubled as she was.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia Kittleson
Evanston
Ilinois
Peruna
American Burglars in London
Reported band of American burglars operated in London recently. They allegedly robbed a South London house of £977 in gold and silver, leaving behind tools worth £50. A second theft at the Cecil Hotel involved £60 in gold and jewelry. police search a suspected American criminal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
South
Cecil
Indian Relics Found Near McKinley Bridge Site
Workmen sinking a caisson for a pier off Salisbury street in St. Louis uncovered an Indian skull twenty feet below the river bed. The skull top is flat. They also retrieved ancient clay bowls petrified trees and walnut knots, all unrotted and as hard as iron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury Street
St. Louis
McKinley
Mississippi River
Macadam Roads Buy Oil to Protect Queens Roads
Macadam Roads in Queens Borough New York purchased 50 000 gallons of crude oil and 50 000 gallons of a tar and oil mix to coat roads and prevent wear from automobile traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queens Borough
New York
What He Said and a Morning Lesson
A Brooklyn Life note recalls a teacher prompting a girl to remember the word blessing. The child remembers her papa’s comment about a white man and a “bum breakfast,” highlighting a crude, racial moment in daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Simpson Tunnel Still Holds Length Record
The Simpson tunnel remains the longest on record, continuing to set and uphold the measurement for tunnel length.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simpson Tunnel
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Philippine Assembly
Board of Education
Arthur Ponsonby
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Senator Foraker
William Bartlett
Gold Tooth Billy
Theodore Whitmore
Harrison, N. J
E. B. Wilson
Daily Thought
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company
Columbus, C
Johns Hopkins University
St. Vitus
Kline
Free. Inc
Arch St
Phila
Wih
Sears
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N.Y
Inigo Jones
Miss. Sophia Kittlesen
Pe-Ru-Na
Pearl Street
Hale
Pike
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