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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
3
A barber explains that razors are essentially saws with fine teeth. When teeth clog with dirt, the razor becomes dull and seems tired, but cleaning restores sharpness. Dipping in warm water keeps teeth clean, and lather stiffens the beard to present a firm cutting surface.
The main arsenic sources are Saxony silver mines, England tin and pyrites, Spain mispickel and Ontario mispickel mines. Canada mispickel contains gold. Germany leads in metalic and white arsenic. the U S uses about half of world production. Orpiment is yellow arsenic used in pyrotechny shot medicine and fly powders.
In the Dawson mining district the Yukon Gold Company is constructing a seventy mile ditch flume and pipe line to supply water for placer mining. The project, costing about 2 500 000 dollars, is expected to be completed in the fall of the year.
A Chicago newspaper correspondent traveled to New York by electric railroads, taking eight days and costing $23.55 in fares. The trip covered about 1278 miles, with roughly 322 miles by other means, and the remainder by trolley.
A Harper's Weekly quotation notes that a man struggles to understand women in two life stages: before marriage and after. The wry remark emphasizes persistent gender misunderstandings rather than a factual event.
The Crystal Palace accommodates more people than any other building, with a stated capacity of 100000 spectators.
A reader recalls early coffee drinking in childhood and how caffeine caused nervousness and sleep trouble. After trying Postum, the writer reports better sleep and no headaches, praising the product and urging others to read The Road to Wellville.
The piece describes a versatile blouse with open square neck and optional chemisette, noting armhole trimming inspired by Japanese design to hide seams. White Hakutai silk features embroidered banding, with a front and back waist detailing. A separate fashion note highlights a morning frock in dark purple blue cloth with violet green accents and violet accessories.
Fancy neckwear dominates this season with varied designs in jabots collars and stocks. The jabot uses fine white batiste with lace, while turn over collars feature striped material. stocks show net with insertion and lace. Roll over collars use a band foundation and can be buttoned into place for easy coordination with gowns.
The article details yoke deep sleeves with trimmed edges, a dhaped neck band, and a separate chemisette for sixteen to forty-four inch sizes. It also highlights the glove handkerchief, a portable linen square with hemstitching and optional Armenian lace, designed to fit inside a glove opening.
Austrian engineer Dr. Riegel shows sea salt filtrate in tree trunks as a potential purifying agent. Citric acid proves effective as a water sterilizer, killing cholera germs in five minutes and typhus in one and a half hours in sunlit tests. In France a 16.4 foot iron submarine for sponge fishery off Tunis is under construction with two crew and a bow spy-hole and electric lamp.
A South African naturalist notes the waltzing instinct of ostriches as a sudden running surge with wing spread to aid escape from predators. Dr. Frederick H. Milliner demonstrates a wireless electric truck at Union Pacific shops in Omaha started and stopped remotely.
Detroit Free Press explains that vessels docked for winter are reversed each year to balance sun exposure. The method reduces rot and wear, with bulwarks and timbers on the water-exposed side needing renewal faster, saving time and expense over years.
Lyell notes the mean land elevation above sea level about 1000 feet while the ocean reaches at least 12000 feet deep. The ocean area averages far deeper than land, yet extreme land heights are rare. If all land were spread over ocean area it could be covered about thirty times.
A persuasive appeal urges women to write to Mrs Lydia E. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential advice on private illnesses. It cites decades of correspondence and claims that reader letters prove the treatment’s effectiveness in aiding cases.
Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allentown Pa credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her long standing organic disturbance and female weakness after doctors advised surgery. A friend recommended the remedy and she followed directions to become a well woman.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for females. It claims to cure thousands of women troubled with displacements inflammation ulcERATION fibroid tumors irregularities menstrual pain backache bearing down feeling flatulence indigestion dizziness or nervous prostration.
The daily cold bath is praised as an ideal spring tonic and a key measure for preventing disease. It urges readers to replace drug tonics with cold immersion while ensuring a proper reaction for renewed energy and vigor.
Major Walter E. Lombard of the First Heavy Artillery announced a new device said to locate a vessel ten miles away on dark nights or dense fog. He reported a fort officer has perfected the invention enabling gunners to sight and sink ships from harbor forts with heavy guns.
Ambitious balloonists of Gerr prepare for a national aeronautics presentation in October as Germany hosts scrutiny and competition in the Coupe National Aeronautes event.
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