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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1908
Page
3
An ethical remedy praised as a wholesome family laxative. The advertisement urges buying the genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. and sold by leading druggists, touting worldwide approval and health benefits.
A National Importing Co notice offers sale of pongee silk shirt waists and dress patterns from its Broadway address. The ad promotes new ro beng items for sale and invites customers to purchase.
In 1907 the total arrivals from foreign ports reached 4749 vessels. Of these 726 were American, 2039 were British, and 710 were German, with other nations making up the remainder.
A mother reports months of stubborn itching sores on her son. After trying various remedies, three uses of Cuticura Soap and Ointment cleared the welts, with no scarring or recurrence. The letter endorses Cuticura as the best treatment tried.
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Kase a powder for the feet. It relieves tight or new shoes and cures Corns Bunions Swollen Hot Smarting and Sweating Feet and wing Nails. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25 cts Sample sent Free Address Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy N Y. The electric tramways of the City of Mexico have been chartered by a company with 4 000 000 capital. Electric light plants are being constructed at Juchitan and Oaxaca and light and power plants on the Isthmus of Tehauntepec.
A promotional notice offers 100 reward for any case Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure. It claims catarrh is constitutional and cites testimonials from Kij City & Co, Toledo Ohio, with sales through druggists and a recommendation to use Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Immigration into Canada last year reached 277 376 people up 61 434 from the year before. United States entries were 656 551 a decrease of 7 231.
Mrs Rebecca Mack of 1795 EB Rich Street Columbus Ohio reports relief from constant back pain irregular kidney secretions and fatigue after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She says continued use cured her kidney troubles and credits the product for prompt relief. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Dixonville note highlights a woman supporting her husband by working in timber. Mrs Steve Workover stacked and cut multiple tiers in a week while her husband saws, with good health and strong enthusiasm. The piece contrasts past burdens with today’s new opportunities in the timber trade.
New York Sun notes Miss Mabel Sturtevant has been admitted to the bar in Jefferson City Missouri. She is valedictorian of her high school class and won scholarships at Baker University Kansas City University and the University of Missouri curator’s scholarship. Since 1905 she has pursued law and academic studies at the university.
A New York Press piece mocks Japanese women by praising a Japanese woman's perpetual smile. The caricature links that expression to subjugation under imperial rule, implying seduction through appearance amid wartime tensions.
Dorothy Dix argues that a husband should police his wife's spending to avoid debt, urging restraint and open talks on what a couple can afford. She warns against indulgent spending and favors responsible budgeting to protect the family finances.
An Atchison Globe reprint contrasts two South Atchison households. One mother harshly scolds muddy shoes, causing her sons to stray, while another welcomes them home. The piece argues harsh discipline can push youths away as opposed to fostering belonging.
A short reflective piece uses the sun rising each day as a metaphor for shedding yesterday’s burdens. It urges carrying only today’s duties and chances, noting yesterday’s failures and successes should not overshadow present growth. The sunrise marks a new day after 6000 years of such beginnings.
The article highlights lavish feathered hats, long coats with tailored and gown styling, lace coats for dinner wear, filet lace cuffs, soutache braiding, waistcoats, and delicate pink and lavender combinations. It notes new season silhouettes with short waisted coats, lace inserts, and dramatic sleeve treatments.
The Catholic Church shows 11 871 970 members while the Methodist Church lists 3 033 667, yet the Methodist denomination has more preachers than the Catholic one.
The Indianapolis News suggests avoiding stove heating for melted butter. Fill a cake dish with hot water to warm it, wipe dry, then place butter inside to melt. The method uses heat transfer from the warmed dish rather than direct stove heat.
A young woman in Indianapolis uses pasteboard mailing tubes covered with Dresden ribbon to hang her princess gowns. The tubes are hung by a narrow ribbon run through the tube and the gown hangs across the tube at the waist line.
A Indianapolis News item reports a woman claims ordinary yellow soap can mend torn fabric as well as gum tissue. She suggests wetting the soap, applying to the torn area on the wrong side, and pressing with a moderately hot iron as an experiment.
A New York Press note advises painting upkeep in kitchens. It suggests boiling one pound of bran in a gallon of water for an hour to wash varnished and dull paint, noting that soap worsens the effect and frequent cleaning causes dullness.
Instructions from the New York Press describe a leather cleaning method using French chalk Fuller's earth and starch with yellow ochre to create a paste, applied and dried then brushed, with a wax turpentine polish. A final egg white rub improves dull leather and oxalic acid in warm water cleans leather bags.
Four pounds lean beef with tomatoes onions and peppers boiled until tender, plus a coconut pie recipe with eggs sugar butter milk and flour. Also lamb dish with carrots boiled in salted water and served with butter or white sauce and oysters. Corn cake and egg puff recipes included with instructions and baking times.
A letter from a grateful reader describes long lasting feminine ills and relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and the prescribed treatment. The writer says she now feels strong and well and thanks the correspondent for the help received.
Medical advertisement claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures female ailments including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and nervous prostration. Encourages sick women to write for advice to Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
An elderly Cherokee man described an ancient method to poison arrowheads. Deer liver was mounted on a pole and exposed to rattlesnakes midday when they are active. Poison from multiple rattlers soaked the liver, dried to powder, and stored in a buckskin bag to coat arrows, deadly when applied.
The linen industry is Ireland’s greatest manufacturing field with about £15,500,000 invested and around 70,000 people employed.
A Wisconsin woman describes long dyspepsia with severe weight loss and speech trouble. After twelve years of distress she used Grape-Nuts with milk and lime water, then Grape-Nuts and cream, regaining appetite, strength, and clearer speech. She now eats a broad diet and keeps Grape-Nuts for meals.
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