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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1908
Page
3
A congressional candidate visits farmer Mr. Smith to argue for rotation in office. The farmer questions applying last year's crop to politics, replying he won’t plant last year’s potato patch with skunk cabbage merely for rotation. Nautilus.
An unofficial estimate places world telephones at about 8,000,000 in use after a little over thirty years. Modern business would stagger if the hello instrument vanished. Yet a sudden lapse in electric light, a development from the last twenty-five years, would have an even greater unseen impact.
A designed ad from Transatlantic Tales features a chauffeur who studied medicine and law for three years, has good practice, is available as a witness, and claims thirteen acquittals without damages. The applicant seeks a position involving a hundred horsepower machine.
A historical note reports bamboo stocks in Japan dwindling due to a spreading disease that accelerates decay in grave sites. The文字 indicates widespread impact on burial practices and ornamental bamboo used in monuments.
A Oswego Mont woman describes gradual eye weakness and flashes after coffee use. She quits coffee, adopts Postum and reports eyes well with no pain. Her nursing baby stays healthy and a friend also improves dyspepsia and headaches after switching to Postum. Source notes Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
English scientist Sir Oliver Lodge, at the Royal Institution, discusses the ether as a continuous medium enabling action at a distance. He compares atoms to celestial bodies, showcases optical demonstrations, and posits that intrinsic energy of space equals the mass of immense movement at light speed.
In London the Anti-death by own action Bureau reports 1125 men and 95 women sought help in the last year. Most callers were middle class, over half men cited poverty, with 11 percent due to drink drugs or disease, and 21 percent to accidents and sickness. Two-thirds of women suffered melancholia from poverty. The bureau offers advice and encouragement, not direct aid, and about three-quarters were diverted from their purpose.
A Chicago News item frames a witty exchange where a maid declares love for an ideal not a man. The suitor aims to reach that ideal, but the maid cites a character from The Arabian Nights whose touch turns everything to gold, prompting astonishment.
In a sharp exchange Caroline defends gossip as truth while Pauline counters that truth often hurts and is the worst form of gossip. The dialogue echoes wit from China Glass and Lampa.
In Sunny San Bernardino Lionel M. Heath describes fifteen years of back pain frequent urination dropsy and rheumatic aches from kidney trouble. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with a complete cure five years ago and again now as public proof. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The Chicago Tribune reports Senator Primmer sidestepping calls from a editor of the Skedunk Bugle and a paper manufacturer about repealing the wood pulp tariff. He directs messages to both sides, saying a public man must resist rot from ignor ant constituents to fulfill his sworn duty.
The Republique Francaise in Paris reports 11 315 000 French households. Of these, 1 804 720 have no children, 2 966 171 have one child, 2 661 978 have two, 1 643 425 have three, 987 892 have four, 566 758 have five, 27241 have six, 18299 have seven, 94729 have eight, 44728 have nine, 20639 have ten, 8305 have eleven, 3508 have twelve, 1437 have thirteen, 564 have fourteen, 249 have fifteen, 79 have sixteen, 34 have seventeen, and 45 have eighteen or more.
Dr William J Long, Roosevelt's nature faker, described wonders like wolves sliding downhill using tails as rudders bears at anthills making antlike noises and crows kicking a china ball. His Brockton Mass talk in the crowded Congregational Church delighted listeners.
The Mexican Electric Tramways Company has agreed with the National Trust Company of New York for new bonds totaling 15 million dollars in gold.
Railway traffic declines as commuters shift from the New York Central lines to the rapid New York City subway system. Advertisements tout products from Garfield Tea to Woolford's Sanitary Lotion and Mrs. Winslow's Syrup, with prices and claims for health and relief.
The saying suggests widows seek amiability and kindness as the key cards in marriage. It frames matrimony as a game won by gentle traits over other qualities.
A young woman with scabies dermatitis and related ailments sought aid at a city mission. After seven weeks with little progress, she received Suticura Soap, Cuticura Resolvent, and Ointment. Within two weeks she recovered enough to seek work and regained health. Laura Jane Bates, New York, March 11, 1907.
In a humorous exchange from Harper's Weekly a portly man asks to sit on a hat and the other replies with a quick retort. The odd dispute ends with the portly man admitting he did sit on it, reflecting a lighthearted vignette from the era.
An ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as a constitutional cure. It claims efficacy against catarrh by direct action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers $100 if it fails to cure, with testimonials and circulars. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A critic laments the between judgment and creation in a Baltimore American anecdote. He notes the artist’s anxious push for clarity and the landscape’s defining features such as the hill’s brow and the stream’s mothering flow as the camera of perception.
A front building sign at Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Mass invites verification of their Laboratory and business openness. The copy questions whether Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is purely herbal and asks if correspondence with women is confidential and proves cures for female ailments.
The Indianapolis News recalls a time in Morgan and Brown Counties when venison sold for less than pork and a full grown wild turkey priced far below a spring chicken. Quail could be bought for less than a dozen links of sausage, and quail did not pass as short-billed snipe.
A census note states there are 12,147 Chinese residents in New York City, reflecting demographic data for the area and population distribution in the boroughs.
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