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Georgetown Daily Item

Location

Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Mar 21, 1908

Page

3

Reserved Judge Comments Hint at Who For

A brief remark from a judge suggests uncertainty about whom a decision benefits. The speaker characterizes the tone as restrained and curious about the targeted party.

What Causes Headache from October to May

From October through May colds are the most frequent headache cause. Laxative Brome Quinine removes cause, E. W. Grove on box. 25c.

E. W. Grove

Longest Cable Ropeway Under Construction in Turkestan

A German firm works on what is claimed as the world’s longest cable ropeway connecting the Turkestan coal mines near Samarkand with the nearest railway. The 54 mile system will move eight to ten million poods annually with trolleys of twenty poods at six miles per hour, replacing a five day camel caravan haul through hilly terrain.

Societe de l'Industrie Charbonniere Et Miniere de Philadelphia

The Best He Knew

Gladstone a Jamaican assistant to a district physician in the Canal Zone misread the numbered bottles. He gave a patient two pills from numbers fooh and two, believing number six was exhausted, and the doctor later questioned him about the dosing.

Gladstone Canal Zone Lippincott’s

Doctor's Gift Food Worth Its Weight in Gold

A Pennsylvanian recounts a doctor's gift of Grape-Nuts that halted chronic indigestion and bilious spells. He notes immediate improvement, greater mental clarity, and renewed vitality within two months, praising the food and the inventor. The ad cites Postum Co. and invites reading The Road to Wellville.

Postum Co Battle Creek Mich Wellville

Lemon Butter Sauce from Historic Recipe

Squeeze juice from a large lemon into a saucepan. Add a quarter pound of butter, a half saltspoon of salt and a saltspoon of pepper. Beat over heat until thick and hot but do not boil. Remove from fire and mix in the beaten yolks of two eggs. Serve at once.

Horseradish Sauce for Hot and Cold Serve

A Washington Star recipe directs two sauces. For hot sauce mix four tablespoons grated horseradish four tablespoons powdered crackers one half cup cream one teaspoon each salt sugar madam mustard a saltspoon pepper and two tablespoons lemon juice or vinegar heat over simmering water. For cold sauce cream butter add horseradish a half teaspoon vinegar or lemon juice and a tablespoon thick cream chill before serving.

Washington Star

Vegetarian Curry Recipe from Philadelphia Record

A vegetarian curry combines potatoes turnips carrots and celery diced and boiled. Onions fried in drippings, then flour stirred in, stock added, curry powder salt pepper and grated sour apple folded with vegetables. Simmer slowly for 45 minutes, finish with parsley and serve.

Philadelphia Record

Delicious Peach Pudding Recipe from Boston Post

A buttered earthenware dish is layered with stale bread and peaches, repeating bread and peach layers. A custard of sugar eggs milk and nutmeg is poured over, then baked about an hour in a water bath and served with fruit sauce.

Boston Post

Senator Platt and a Connecticut schoolyard yarn

Senator Platt of Connecticut recalled a school memory about a teacher who sought the birth date of a pupil. The mother, puzzled, replied that the girl was born in "late time" and could not recall whether there were planting or digging activities at the time, a humorous anecdote from his long public life.

Platt Connecticut Boston Herald

Never Stops The Gas Meter Teases Sunday School Talk

A minister at a Sunday school speaks on the wonder of the heart, asking about the most vital organ and rhythm of life. A child interrupts with a playful line noting the gas meter as the unseen throbber.

Monkey Sale Confuses Customer In Store Tale

In a shop moment a proprietor told his clerk Tom to handle live animals while he worked upstairs. A man and his son asked to see a live monkey and the startled clerk summoned, "Come down, you're wanted," prompting a courtroom style anecdote from Judge's Library.

Tom Judge’s

Well Man at 81 Credits Dean's Kidney Pills

Daniel S. Queen of Burrell Street Salem Virginia says a back injury and kidney trouble left him bedridden and weak for years until Dean's Kidney Pills brought relief. He reports dramatic improvement after using the product, priced 50 cents a box and sold by dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY is listed as the maker.

Daniel S. Queen Burrell Street Salem Dean Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo N. Y

Household Hints From Practical Domestic Advice

Practical household tips cover odors with ground cloves, beating egg whites with salt, threading a needle against white paper, keeping boys comfortable at home, warm baths for poor circulation, giving boys a room with reading materials, cleaning with old newspapers, using newspaper as table cover, handling vegetables or fowl prep, removing sugar stains with cold water, and effective stain removal technique with cloth and brush.

Egg Clarified Coffee Method From St Louis Post Dispatch

The article explains not to boil coffee but to reach boiling then hold just below it to extract oils. Use a spotless pot, white enamel preferred, with steam nosepiece and one tablespoon per cup plus one for the pot. An eggshell inner skin or egg white clarifies, but avoid too much egg to prevent coating. For a family of four, one egg can be shared for four cups.

St. Louis Post- Dispatch

Great Nerve Restorer Promises Cure For Nervous Ailments

Advertisement claims Dr. H.R. Kline offers a trial bottle and treatise for a nerve restorer said to permanently cure diseases. Mentions address in Philadelphia and a boast about a town of 20 000 people within extinct volcano craters.

Kline H.R. Kline Phila

New Pile Cure Promises Fast Results and Refund

An advertisement touts Paso Ointment claiming to cure blind bleeding or protruding piles within 6 to 14 days or a full refund. It also markets a new machine that allegedly makes 40 000 match splits per minute at 50 cents.

All That Didn’t Sink in the River Town

A visitor asks about the floating population during the rainy season and a native from a small river town confirms it rises notably. The exchange captures local color and seasonal behavior in the community.

Puck

Unidentified patent remedies and claims from old ad copy

Over half a century Brown's Bronchial Traches praised as a cure for hoarseness and sore throat. A claim on Algerian vines yielding more grapes per acre. Woolford's Sanitary Lotion advertised as itch cure in three minutes with a druggist distribution note.

Brown Woolford

Three Cures of Eczema From Cuticura Remedies

A reader recalls eczema trials across summers, noting a brother who cured with Cuticura Ointment and a Michigan mother who treated her grandchild successfully with Cuticura. The letter includes dates in 1907 and cites Mrs Sarah BE Lusk of Coldwater. It also mentions large potato usage in starch and alcohol production.

Indiana Sarah BE. Lusk Coldwater Mich

Salzer seed offers and health tonics in Rural New Yorker notice

The Rural New Yorker promotes Salzer seed catalogs with 10c stamp requests and promises an original seed catalog and samples from Salzer Seed Co. La Crosse Wisconsin. It also mentions various seed varieties and health products including Garfields Tea and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children.

Ica William Oats

Sunflower Cultivation urged for Kansas farmers

F. D. Coburn considers issuing a bulletin to urge Kansas farmers to grow Russian sunflowers for seeds oil used in fine toilet soaps. He learned of European demand via a London importer H. A. W. Corfield who asked for farmer names.

F. D. Coburn Kansas Corfield Coburn Kansas City Journal

Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Rejuvenates Women

The Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn Mass cites over a million letters from women testifying to relief and cures from Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It claims to save some from surgery and to be made from roots and herbs without drugs, restoring feminine health to a normal state.

Lydia E Lydia E. Pinkham Pinkham Lynn Mass

Bromo Quinine Ad Claims Quick Cold Cure Signature of Grove

Advertisement asserts a single Bromo Quinine laxative product attributed to E. W. Grove promising cure in one day and mentions a price of 25 cents. Also notes a horse may last twenty five days without food if water remains, with a New York dateline.

E. W. Grove N.Y

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