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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1908
Page
3
Poem imagines the sun lingering to brighten children's play, flowers, bees, dew, and seas. The speaker would extend daylight to make people smile and do their best, then depart knowing she had done well.
Speke the rhinoceros at Bronx Park Zoo fell stiff and weak after winter milk diet cutbacks. Dr. Blair diagnosed rheumatism caused by reduced exercise and old age stages. A return to milk punches and gentle activity aims to restore mobility and spirits.
Nora and Teddy discover a stone butterfly shaped shell in grandpa's study and hear a tale from the old man. He explains the shell became stone over eons as ocean life turned to rock and notes there are many such shells in the rocks the children could collect for a cabinet.
A young African two horned rhino named Speke, living near Lake Victoria Nyanza roots in German East Africa, suffers rheumatic illness due to inadequate maternal care after capture. Keepers Thuman and Bayreuther struggled with his milk diet while trying to provide care as he remains a baby rhino despite his size. Betty the child embodies playful conflict as family routines pause to accommodate the sick animal and the household duties shift away from play.
A Bethany Missouri Republican editorial argues that a genuine religion requires debt repayment honesty neighborly speech and daily work to support family. Anything short of this standard is deemed a sham and fraudulent.
A concise note states fishhooks have followed the same design for two millennia, highlighting longevity and consistency in early fishing technology.
A Harper's Bazar excerpt offers thrifty veal ideas for family meals. It recommends 18 breast of veal stuffed and roasted as a main dish, leg of veal for potpie or veal loaf with tomato sauce, and veal cutlet in finger-length slices fried and served with spinach.
Wash and soak tapioca overnight then simmer with boiling water until clear. Stir in one and a half pounds of cherries and sugar to taste. Cool and serve cold with cream, yielding eight portions per the Washington Star.
Prepare rice lettuce and form small balls of cream or cottage cheese seasoned with salt and pepper. Roll these on a fork through grated American cheese for a yellow coating, serve on cup shaped leaves with French dressing or dressing on the lettuce first, then the balls.
A Boston Post recipe instructs to scald milk with cornmeal and flour, cook two hours, then add egg yolks butter and salt. Bake to a delicate brown, cool, then top with a meringue from stiffly beaten egg whites and sugar, and brown in a cool oven.
From the grocer obtain small round heads of Boston lettuce. Wash, core to form cups, and fill with halved white grapes, seeded red California cherries or grape fruit pulp. Top with French dressing and serve on dark green lettuce leaves.
A list of household uses for coal oil including brightening furniture dusting cloths easing laundry with boiler water adding to starch for easier ironing quieting squeaky hinges washing windows and sinks cleaning irons clearing gum on sewing machines brightening zinc surfaces curing croup with small doses and cleaning stove pipes. tip from Annie Weakley in Indianapolis Star.
Zinc mining in Mexico has gained importance mainly in the last three years. The richest zinc deposits lie near Monterey with substantial ore at Calera and continued production at the Tiro General mine in San Luis Potosi.
Mrs Louis Beck of San Antonio Texas recalls her two year old child’s struggle with eczema. After failed treatments by two doctors over six months the Cutiura Remedies brought relief. Within one week the child slept and within two months the sores disappeared.
Electric haulage has supplanted animal power in the Comstock lode and twelve of the mules brought to the surface had not seen daylight for twenty years.
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot Base a powder for the feet It makes tight or new shoes feel easy Cures Corns Bunions Swollen Hot Smarting and Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails Id by all dists and shoe stores 25 cts Sample sent FREE Address Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy NY.
The London Globe reports varied hoof protection methods. In Iceland horses are shod with sheep horn while in Sudan camelskin is used. A German inventor created a paper horseshoe cured with turpentine oil to form a durable moisture resistant shoe.
Levi P. Brockway of Anoka Minnesota reports five months in a hospital ending with a hope of six months to live. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills for relief and recovery. A second testimonial from Mrs T C Willadsen Manning Iowa credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with saving her life after years of female complaints and costly treatment.
An advertise claim stating Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has cured thousands of women with displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration. The notice invites sick women to write for advice and lists Salavces Lynn Mass.
A London Outlook editorial asserts most city pigeons are consumptive or diseased, describing a broad issue among the bird population cited in an 1884 or 89 era New York publication. The claim reflects vintage urban pest concerns and health fears.
An Essentiels piece extols reliable health products, highlighting truthful claims and broad approval. It promotes Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a proven family laxative, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. and sold by leading druggists.
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