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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
3
A LeSueur Minnesota mother recalls her seven month old daughter suffering a facial eczema that worsened to sores. After trying various remedies, a Cureita remedy was used and within two months the child showed complete recovery with no signs of eczema since. The note is dated April 15 and May 2, 1907.
The Methodist Episcopal Church property in this country is valued at about 187 million dollars with an outstanding indebtedness of 12.127 million.
An advertisement touts Paro Ointment claiming piles cured in six to fourteen days with a money refund if not. It also mentions Dr Kline's Nerve Restorer and a note about hair turning gray earlier in men.
A persuasive circular claims a Illinois woman paid 12 cents yearly for a seed catalog and bought 837.76 worth of seeds, promising a vast assortment including Quick Seen Carrot and Earliest Emerald Cucumber. It touts 314 percent gains and a catalog claiming 35 bushels of rare vegetables from John Salzer Seed Co. The note ends with a line about the Persian Gulf being among the hottest regions.
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Kase a powder for the feet It makes hot or cold shoes feel easy Onions Swollen Hot Smarting pads Errestine Feet and Ingrowing Nails all dra shoe stores 25 cts Sample sent Address Allen & Olnatel LeRoy N Aged text advert worded in old-time catalogue style
A German mechanic crafted the smallest motor in the world functioning as a scarf pin. The device runs on a pocket battery and operates continuously, highlighting micro engineering ingenuity.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh, a constitutional disease, by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. The ad offers a $100 reward if any case fails to cure and cites testimonials, with Toledo, Ohio as the address. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Excerpt from Helen Keller's Sense and Sensibility in the Century celebrating resilience in adversity. It argues that blindness does not deny essential human capacities such as service friendship humor imagination wisdom and inner will. The piece envisions light behind darkness and spiritual renewal as a shared human fate.
Mrs. Thos. Dunn of Columbus Ohio reports over ten years of back ache and exhaustion. After trying remedies she found relief and a permanent cure with Dean's Kidney Pills, bought from dealers. The advertisement notes 50 cents per box and mentions Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
Queen Amelie of Portugal is noted as remarkably beautiful and healthy. The article highlights her athletic lifestyle with long walks daily horse riding and driving skittish horses and her enthusiasm as an automobilist after becoming a widow from Lisbon tragedy.
A quotation from the Gentlewoman argues many marriages fail because partners choose for reasons other than love. It critiques marrying for proximity money status or fleeting passion rather than true love.
Mrs. Ellen Toothaker of South Harpswell recalls a kind act from fifty years ago when a young man tossed an apple to her as she left the Baptist Church. The fruit hit her neck, she kept it, filled it with cloves, and today the small apple remains well preserved as a memory. The man, now seventy five, had forgotten the incident until reminded.
The National Bank of Meridian Mississippi sent papers to Evanston Ill for attestation by a notary public. Miss Mabel Rice, a respected Evanston notary, stamped them but the Meridian bank returned them saying they want a man notary. Club women fear the bank may refuse deposits from women.
Miss Kate Barnard was elected State Commissioner of Charities and Correction for Oklahoma by a large margin. She has toured juvenile courts in Denver Chicago and St Louis and plans to bring top philanthropy workers to Guthrie for a winter lecture series for legislators on child labor charities prison reform almshouses and insane asylums.
The New York World reports Sir Gerard Lowther, British minister to Morocco, gains aid from his American wife Alice Blight of Philadelphia. Ralph Paget, son-in-law of Lady Arthur Paget and British minister to Siam, is favored for the Morocco post, with Bangkok cited as an unhealthy posting. London circles credit the mother-in-law's influence with King Edward.
Mme Jeanne Girard of the Paris Academy of Medicine founded a school for little mothers in the busy Paris working quarter. Linked with L Union Familiale the program trains young girls under ten in feeding families and maintaining hygiene and home comfort on a modest budget.
The New York Press notes women should choose gems by their type. It says eyes with low brilliance gain nothing from diamonds, pale blondes look better with diamonds, while many women favor yellow stones from amber to gold and avoid coral or blue.
The nurse is described as a solitary, calm warrior against death, guiding patients through life and death. The passage contrasts battlefield courage with nursing restraint, offering relief and a shift from worldly concerns to nature, skies, and daily miracles amid quiet vigil.
The latest fashion notes showcase natural undyed ostrich plumes as the great trend with feathers of all kinds in vogue. Box pleats trimmed with ribbons on skirts, draped silhouettes, and pongee in natural tones lead a season of embroidered bodices, beaded decorations, and varied belting to match new spring gowns.
Vice-President John F. Stevens of the New Haven road warns Yale students against socialism and creeping anarchy in a Sunday address. He defends capital and argues for fair wages and employment, urging respect for individual rights and the freedom to labor without mandatory union alignment.
Nehalem wax found near the Nehalem River mouth attracted early explorers. Deposits were shipped to Hawaii in 1846 and later to Northwestern markets. Pacific University analysis suggests beeswax similarity, contradicting ozocerite theory, linking tale to an Indigenous legend of a wreck near the river mouth.
An easterner, C. S. McKnab, was fined 500 dollars plus costs by Judge Cooper in Canon City for killing a famous mountain sheep that roamed Fremont County for years. He shot the animal from high ground, removed its horns, and left the carcass to rot until a game warden found it.
A Wise codger jokes that the public must accept him as an aging relic after twenty years. He explains his realization that he is no longer as young as he once was, noting his slow return to self awareness. The Catholic Standard and Times attributes the quote to a reflective humor piece.
A Yonkers Statesman quip notes grapes trodden with bare feet in Spanish and Italian vineyards. The joke contrasts labor hardship with playful wordplay about putting soles into their work.
A Columbus Ohio woman Mrs E Hanson writes that times during the Change of Life brought nervousness and headaches. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief and able to resume work, urging others to try it.
An advertisement promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a long standing female health remedy. It claims to cure dizziness nervous prostration and general ill health and invites women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
The piece laments a garden where only sturdy American Beauty roses stood tall. Describing them as costly splendid and unromantic it voices patriotic sentiment from Mrs John Lane praising the national flower of Americans.
An OCR snippet blends health claims and product pitches. It notes colds cause headaches seasonally, touts laxatives like Quinine and Garfield Ted as remedies, mentions liver and kidney health, and claims quick cures for throat and cough issues. It references British Museum items and youth growth timelines and advertises various tonics and lo tions.
In Perth Scotland a sociable man named Jamie was found at the foot of an outside stair after nightfall. An acquaintance asked if he had fallen, to which Jamie replied with resigned certainty that he had indeed fallen while coming down, regardless of circumstances, in a Bellman style recounting.
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