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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1909
Page
3
In a perilous blaze aboard a passenger ship, women and men display bravery and panic. A captain reassures passengers while some volunteers save others, a frightened elderly woman leaps into the sea, and bystanders cheer or mock. Gertrude and Arthur Redmond witness and comment on the chaos and heroism.
In a dramatic excerpt from a psychological novel, Gertrude clings to courage as a ship burns. Her son Redmond, his mother, and two Sisters of Charity face a brutal shipboard evacuation amid panic, fires, and rising seas while honor and duty drive actions. The captain and Redmond guide Gertrude toward the lifeboats, ending with a perilous leap into the water as the vessel sinks, to be continued.
The forest reserve bill passed the House after a stormy debate. Senate approved rivers and harbors and sundry civil bills, including a $139 million appropriation. Committees cut duty on rough lumber by fifty cents per thousand. An amendment to inspect Navy repairs over $200,000 was adopted. The Twenty fifth Infantry negro soldiers bill advanced in the House. The President sent a Navy reorganization report to Congress. House rules were amended to set a Wednesday calendar when in session. An insurgent tilt produced a 168 to 162 vote on a resolution. An amendment to raise the President to $100,000 and the VP and Speaker to $20,000 passed to the Senate.
Professor John Lester, dissenting from peers, claims American boys show better manners than English lads due to influence of American mothers and women teachers. He asserts the American boy learns morality at his mother's knee, while the English boy learns it from his father, as cited by Woman's Home Companion.
A fragment reflects a teaching moment about distinguishing beauty from nuisance as a child considers what makes flowers flowers and weeds weeds. Walter recalls a garden example to illustrate the idea.
A dinner boast about noble lineage provokes a witty retort. The guest quips that if the speaker climbs higher on his family tree he will encounter England, joking that it is an organization for promoting goat culture.
Fragmentary advertisement claims a herbal remedy for female health issues including back and urinary pain. Mentions Grey’s Australian medicine and a “Pleasant herb cure.” Text is garbled with misspellings and nonspecific claims, lacking verifiable details or credible sourcing.
The article explains Messina exports sumach from Sicily used to produce genuine morocco leather. It describes sumach tanning yielding stable white tannage, distinguishing true morocco from imitations dyed with babool or bark. It notes roan leathers are sumach tanned sheepskins and mentions changing fashions with motors expanding the market.
The Mexican Herald reports a movement to erect a grain elevator in Mexico City, noting that the sole elevator in the republic at present is the small facility on the Coatzacoalcos River near Santa Lucia in Vera Cruz.
Europeans ship vast cherry consignments to this country preserved in brine to dodge high sugar fruit duties. The brined fruit is then processed into Maraschino cherries for sale domestically.
A Washington girl recalls how switching to Grape-Nuts and milk for breakfast banished morning fatigue and made work feel lighter. She notes improved energy, the joy of “congenial work,” and credits the cereal with giving life and vigor to every grain. The ad cites Postum Co. of Battle Creek Mich and mentions The Road to Wellville.
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