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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1908
Page
3
Cure Deafness by Constitutional Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad
An advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured by constitutional remedies. It asserts the Eustachian tube inflammation causes hearing loss and offers $100 for any case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Includes Toledo ad and price 75c for Hall's Pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bens
Hall
F.j.unzney & Co
Toledo
Hat Vinaigrette Critique Sparks Florida Bird Death Debate
Mrs. Lapsling condemns killing birds in Florida and skin of hats described as a vinaigrette. The remark highlights tensions over fashion and wildlife in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Ladies Can Wear Shoes One Size Smaller
Advertisement for Allen's Foot Base claiming to reduce shoe tightness and swelling. Promotes relief for hot sweating feet, aching feet, ingrown nails, cords and bunions. Costs 25 cents at druggists and shoe stores with a free trial by mail from Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N.Y
Good Breeds Good and Truth in Life
The quoted maxim urges recognizing truth in others through one's own life as aging teaches that all good stems from od not evil, attributed to Ruskin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruskin
Spring Kidney Trouble Ends After Dean's Pills
Mrs H Mutzabaugh of Duncan non Pa suffered spring kidney trouble with smothering spells heat flashes and kidney pain. She took Dean's Kidney Pills and used eight boxes restoring her to health. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Dinner Talk Turns On Heard Story Repetition
A narrator at a dinner recounts another man's tale, noting that many listeners have already heard it multiple times. The reflection suggests common repetition in social storytelling and audience familiarity.
American Beauty Rose The Favorite Milliner’s Accessory
The American Beauty rose is favored by milliners and often used with lilacs and orchids. The loose sleeve over waist design is popular and widely liked shaping a distinct American beauty style.
Versatile Coat for All Seasons Uses Cape and Yoke Design
The garment description praises a year round coat adaptable to many materials from pique to cloth, linen, or bedford cord. It notes a square yoke with a full skirt, cuffed sleeves, a turn over collar, and an optional cape. For a medium size four years the material required is four and three quarter yards twenty
One Piece Blouse With Silk Variations and Trim Options
The piece describes a single blouse design in taffeta with embroidered yoke and cuffs, combined with a chemi sette of tucked mousseline. It notes suitability for gowns or separate wear, and suggests fabrics like crepe de chine. It lists yardage for various sizes and widths with possible chemistries in lace or all-over embroidery.
Mulberry: A New Shade in Advanced Style Ad
The latest color named mulberry blends crushed strawberry and raspberry tones. It lies near old rose and is described as flattering for almost any complexion in the current fashion showcase.
Multiple Global Topics Highlight Early 20th Century News
The items cover gas prices in Hamilton Ohio and a curb market in Chicago, car exhibits from independent manufacturers, a possible German petroleum monopoly, U S trade leadership with Japan, a reform league's critique of a census bill, Judge Grosscup’s anti trust remarks, Chinese residents in Manila facing trachoma, Andover Seminary’s move to Cambridge, Bavarian waterway spending plans, idle U S miners drawn to Alaska lands, New England Methodist stance on dancing and theater, parole for bigamist Michael Briefer in New York, and Slavs petitioning the president over a Prague jailed naturalized American case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Japan
Tokio
National Civil Service Reform League
Grosscup
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Manila
Amoy
Andover Theological Seminary
Cambridge
Harvard Divinity School
United States
Alaska
New England Methodist Episcopal Conference
New York
Foster
Michael Briefer
Washington
Prague
Prominent Figures and Global Happenings Noted
The record highlights W. R. Hearst with a payroll of 5 million, Panama Canal opening January 1 1915 per Colonel Goethals, Rockefeller praising Reverend Aked, Minnesota Governor Johnson on Supreme Court rulings, Alexander E. Orr’s retirement, Prince Nashimoto in Paris pursuing military study, death of Harvard’s Charles H. Parker aged 91, Sir Caspar Purdon Clark to receive honorary LLD, ex Governor Morrill once cash-poor, Elihu Root’s travel reach, Lt. Charles A. L. Totten’s Milford death tied to scriptural math deductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Hearst
Goethals
Panama Canal
John D. Rockefeller
Aked
Johnson
Minnesota
Shiloh Battlefield
Supreme Court
New York Life Insurance Company
Alexander E. Orr
Prince Nashimoto
Japan
Paris
Charles H. Parker
Harvard College
McGill University
Caspar Purdon Clark
Metropolitan Art Gallery
New York City
Morrill
Kansas
Elihu Root
South America
Mexico
Canada
Milford
Conn
Charles A. L. Totten
U. S. Army
Yale
Sports Briefs Highlight Varied Boxing, Tennis, and Racing Odds
Packy McFarland defeated Jimmy Britt in Colma in six rounds of a twenty round bout while Adam Ryan draws lightweights in Philadelphia. Hartford hosts fifty five trotters for ten thousand dollars Charter Oak Purse for 2.09 class. Harry Vardon beat Arnaud Massy in a 36 hole match at Deal. Abe Allell drew Battling Nelson in a 15 round featherweight bout. Peter Latham beat George Standing two sets to one at Racquet and Tennis Club. Yale beat Harvard 1 0 in socker at Cambridge with Jennings scoring. Nelson nears title with two fights left Anholz and McFarland. Nelson on has been list. strong lightweight to beat him. English cricket fans praised for single mindedness amid tea habit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Packy” McFarland
Chicago
Jimmy Britt
Colma
Cal
Adam Ryan
Philadelphia
Ryan
Hartford
Harry Vardon
Arnaud Massy
Deal
Kentish
England
Abe Allell
America
Battling Nelson
Peter Latham
George
Cambridge
Mass
Yale
Harvard
Jennings
Nelson
Anholz
McFarland
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed
A Norristown woman reports escaping surgery after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with curing female troubles and urges other women to try it, noting decades of use and a request for advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lena V. He
Norristown, Gas
Pakham
Enry
Lydia Pinkham
Block fined for calling woman "old hen" and "cat" in dispute
Albert S. Block of St. Louis was found by a jury in Judge Rube's court to owe Mrs. Annie G. Kerone $501 for a business dispute. The $1 actual damages and $500 punitive damages were awarded after witnesses testified Block used the insulting terms. the parties are rivals in the commission business on North Fourth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie G. Kerone
Alberts. Block
St. Louis
Rube
Block
President proposal to make former presidents lifelong U S Senate members
In Washington D C Representative Coudrey of Missouri introduced a House resolution proposing that presidents upon leaving office become lifetime members of the United States Senate with a salary of 25000 dollars per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Representative Coudrey
Missouri
House
Washington, D. C
United States
Senate
Prominent Lippe councillor convicted over fake medical degree
At Detmold in Lippe Herr Quentin a prominent society member bought a doctor’s degree from a medical college and used it for eleven years. Courts have convicted him after the truth emerged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detmold
Principality of Lippe
Quentin
Prince of Lippe
Hawley Residence in Plainville Burns to Ground
The historic home of General Joseph R. Hawley, a former United States Senator, burned down at Plainville Connecticut. Fire officials report the blaze destroyed the Hawley residence with no immediate word on casualties or cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawley
Joseph R. Hawley
United States
Plainville
Conn
Money Handled in Berlin 1907 Deutsche Bank Totals
The Deutsche Bank of Berlin in 1907 handled 22.9 billion dollars, up 1.5 billion from 1906, reflecting substantial growth in Berlin banking activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Deutsche Bank of Berlin
Lost 300 Dollars on Tonics and Wrong Food Crisis
A Michigan woman wasted $300 on medicines for six years of nervous indigestion. She found relief by eating Grape-Nuts, reporting rapid improvement and a four-pound gain in one week. She urges publication to help others and cites Postum Co. as source of the letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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