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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1909
Page
4
A mother explains she cannot afford oysters and champagne prescribed by a physician to treat her delicate Lancsire daughter. The doctor notes miners often spend wages on luxuries, while the mother says she provided affordable substitutes like cockles and ginger beer, leaving the patient worse.
A period advertisement asserts a constitutional cure for deafness caused by inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh, offering $100 for any deafness due to catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Separately, tests show iron gall inks retain iron but lose tannic and gallic acids over years, with decomposition likely accelerated by light.
A distraught mother sobs as seven o'clock passes without Ethel returning home. The father dismisses the delay as normal while a paper warns that a girl of her stout build might face dire choices this morning, implying a perilous social trap.
A New York woman recalls heart and stomach trouble from coffee and credits quitting coffee for Postum with restored health. She followed the directions, ate digestible foods, and became “a new woman physically.” She urges others to try Postum ten days replacing coffee to see the benefit.
In New York City a guide highlights half fitting box style gowns for young girls, cord trimming, and exclusive silk-covered cords. Shadow plumes and navy blue flecked feathers trend, with a Misses House Jacket praised for girlish figures. Panama cloth coats, two piece jacket and sleeve styles, and Romney caps with large crowns complete the season's look.
Lat Scald milk and wi shen tepid add yeast after soaking ten minutes in cool water. Stir in sugar salt and enough whole wheat flour to stiff batter. Let rise three hours or overnight. Add egg melted butter currants then more flour to form soft dough. Shape two loaves bake in greased pans with butter until brown.
A New York Telegram style recipe for English crumpets. It details scalding one cup flour mix with butter sugar and salt, cooling, adding yeast dissolved in warm water, and flour to a thick pourable batter. It covers heating a greased griddle and rings, pouring half inch batter, rising, cooking until pale brown bubbles form, then finishing hot with butter and final toast.
A collection of practical household hacks covers croquette timing, cleaning tips using ink and vinegar, dye preservation for black fabrics, cake sifting to avoid lumps, rice starch for paper crafts, ink from tartar for colored paper, clock cleaning with kerosene fumes, straightening bent needles, organizing clipped recipes, making a broom bag, testing paint colors on glass, cardboard painting tests, and silent hinge cures with pencil or oil.
Paw Paw Michigan and Chicago women describe severe female illnesses and refused surgeries after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Testimonials claim tumors, inflammation, displacements, and nerve weakness improved, with doctors predicting fatal outcomes without operation. The ads tout the remedy as affordable and life changing.
In Alaska the native people relish sea urchins as a central food source. They catch the urchins all day, crack them, and eat the orange clusters inside while discarding the spiny shells. This practice, described as a longtime staple, persists in lean times.
The capital formerly invested in buildings at Messina is calculated at about $16,000,000 and at Reggio less, around $10,001,000. The greater portion of this sum is irrevocably lost.
Fragmentary OCR reflects health product claims and demography. Mentions eye relief by physicians, anti itch lotion, and tobacco acreage. Cites Canada sheltering 38258 Orientals including Chinese 17239 Japanese 15848 and 6171 others. 7442 Orientals made British subjects in Canada.
Backache is kidneyache extolls a cure by Dean's Kidney Pills. John C. Coleman of Swainsboro testifies his kidneys ached for years and back pain eased quickly with lasting relief. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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