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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
3
The Well-Informed world favors a gentle yet prompt liquid laxative. California Fig Syrup Co offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, marketed as wholesome and beneficial. Buy the genuine article from leading druggists. price is fifty cents per bottle.
A speaker recalls a young girl allegedly infected with yellow fever from a lace box sent from New Orleans. A physician says transmission via objects is impossible and notes Cuba experiments show the disease spreads only by the mosquito Stygomyia fasciata.
Mrs. Maria Sprinkle appeals to Atlanta street car authorities claiming conductors dirtied her shirtwaist and ruined it. She says elderly women in black dresses and hats were left unassisted while younger passengers fared better, highlighting the issue of improper conduct.
This year the South has 176 votes in the Electoral College, underscoring its influence in presidential selection and state-by-state strategy for campaigns.
A reader reports quitting coffee to relieve heart and stomach symptoms and chronic dyspepsia. Several acquaintances credit Postum Food Coffee with quick or lasting relief from asthma indigestion and heart trouble, prompting the author to praise Postum as a healthier morning beverage option.
Paris journal reports Rene Jeannel discovered a cave near Louhans in Ariege containing about fifty frescoes of men and animals in black and red. The dry gallery yielded most drawings, including dolichocephalic skeleton remains and a simian pose human sketch. Bison boars and horses are depicted. damp sections damaged many of the deepest drawings.
A collection of quotes on human connection honesty and virtue from thinkers like Carlyle German Proverb New York Press Belcher Don Quixote Whately Aubrey De Vere French Bible Lear King Lear Feltham Beecher and others highlights sincerity humility perseverance and the endurance of moral truth across time.
A New York editor urges country newspapers to leverage local ads and targeted distribution. Build a list of educated families, use voter lists and directories, and send sample copies with follow up letters to win new subscribers and boost revenue.
In Youngstown Ohio court constable Elias Jones chased John Keishock through Doud's alley for six blocks with a roaring hot stove in a wheelbarrow. Keishock, who claimed he only wanted the pies, was arrested while finishing the last apple pie. The stove belonged to Mrs Charlies Pull. The man admitted stealing the stove during the attempted theft.
Plans were made to introduce at Northwestern University in Chicago a department of Art Appreciations with a chair titled Cultivation of Good Taste. The initiative aims to instill in feminine students notions of appropriate dressing and covers all branches of art appreciation including home building and furnishing.
The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals offered a prize for a device that would slaughter cattle and end their suffering.
G W L Nesbitt of Marion Kentucky writes of chronic kidney illness with thick secretions swollen limbs and near paralysis. After three months of Dean's Kidney Pills he recovered and returned to work. Sold by all dealers 50 cents per box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Chancellor Kirkland known as Chance, head Latin professor at Vanderbilt University, gives a Horace reading misread by a student who unknowingly echoed a folk saying about enduring blows of chance, prompting laughter from the class.
Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell spoke in London about a campaign against cigarette smoking. He stated that about 15,000,000 pounds or 75,000,000 dollars are spent on cigarettes each year and suggested this could be saved.
The tunnels beneath New York have been finished and soon travelers will gain the economical benefit of passing beneath the city rather than through it, as reported by the Indianapolis News.
A wife reports her husband endured rheumatism and running sores for fifteen years until using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. She says the sores dried up in three weeks, burning stopped, pain eased, and he recovered after three months, with proof available.
Peoria Herald-Transcript notes the audience reacted instantly when the national anthem played at the Washington birthday celebration. Chicago Evening Post adds Peorians are quick as lightning and not easily fooled.
An old advertisement promises a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable case of catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a remedy taken internally. It asserts the cure affects blood and mucous membranes and includes testimonials, price, and distribution by Toled o wholesale druggists. It also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation and lists F J Cheney & Co as the firm behind the product.
Telegraphs report that phones were removed from the Annapolis naval academy to reduce interruptions as too many girls called and tied up midshipmen.
An old newspaper fragment advertises Garfield Digestive Tablets from Garfield Tea Co. in Brooklyn at 25c per bottle on request. It notes Dr. Kline's Great Nerve treatment with a $2 trial bottle and free treatise. Mentions Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething at 25c, and various stats on deaths from destitution, millinery feathers, and rats in England.
A three decade old claim lauds Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a potent remedy for female illnesses. Mrs Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri testifies after twelve years of suffering and eleven doctors, saying the product restored her health and guidance helped others.
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