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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
3
The Well-Informed demand a safe liquid laxative and the California Fig Syrup Co. offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a gentle, effective remedy. Physicians approve its wholesome components and prompt action. Buy the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Co. for fifty cents per bottle at leading druggists.
A consular report notes crude petroleum near Boonah in Queensland with a well at 100 feet and a farm bore at 120 feet showing volatile oil possibly kerosene. Indications exist elsewhere in Harrisville and the district. Payable oil not yet found but expected at 500 to 750 feet in sandstone, limestone and ironstone belts, similar to U S fields.
The Irish show a lifelong talent for combat with a longstanding aptitude for fighting noted in Irish Homestead. A careful study of existing histories highlights a rich tradition of sword and spear over farming tools in earlier eras.
A French cavalry recruit completes an extensive training course and is deemed competent to ride a horse.
A letter extols Postum Food Coffee as a remedy for headaches dyspepsia heart issues and nervous symptoms saying quitting coffee brought relief. It cites stories from women including a state W C T U president and others who found relief after switching to Postum. The note ends with a plug for The Road to Wellville and claims of genuine testimonials.
Notable items span lacrosse victories by Swarthmore College over Lehigh University and Harvard’s lacrosse win over the Middies at Annapolis. Other highlights include a 165 mile Lake Ontario cruising race to start August 10, a Shamrock IV trials in Southampton after arrival from the Clyde, and a fine for a Hazleton resident for trout possession below legal size.
Illinois Democrats urged for William Jennings Bryan while Secretary Taft plans a three weeks trip to Panama. Other items mention global finance, naval arms, and political tensions.
A survey notes that crafts and trades workers face shorter life spans than farmers, while West Virginia inspectors scrutinize mines. Brooklyn plumbers unite, Reading forms a veteran employers group, and over 452 join in two years. Berlin youths dominate industrial schools as Nottingham readies its Trade Union Congress.
The article reports Dr. J. W. Spencer estimating Niagara Falls age at 39 000 years based on a mean recession rate of 4 2 feet per year for about 227 years. It notes initial lower erosion when only Lake Erie discharged into the falls and a later gorge widening as other Great Lakes joined.
A young man and a strange young woman shuffled and dodged in a street encounter in Portland Maine for several seconds trying to pass each other. The man asks which is it to be a waltz or a two step and the woman replies in a brisk tone.
Miss Julia Chapman won a set of silver knives forks and spoons in a board sawing contest at Steimer Hall on Wednesday evening. She completed her board before any competitor started. Fossil Journal reports the event.
G L Chesterton notes the term deadhead has appeared under various names since Ed Mund Kean earned a few shillings performing somersaults for Richardson's show. The London Leader cites historical usage of the phrase.
A dialogue fragment shows an Assyrian engraving on brick with a friend asking what it says. The engraver doubts the exact meaning but suspects later Assyriologists will translate it.
At the Chamonix meeting a Norwegian on skis made a jump of twenty six meters. It was magnificently done and he alighted on his skis without injury. The distance equals about eighty six feet.
Data show more than 92 thousand native workers employed by missionary societies across the country and Europe to spread the Gospel among their people.
G W L Nesbitt of Marion Kentucky describes chronic kidney trouble with severe swelling and paralysis of the right side. After using Deans Kidney Pills for three months he regained health and returned to work. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Lieutenant General Baden-Powell told a London meeting that about 15 million pounds per year are spent on cigarettes and that the sum could be saved as part of a crusade against smoking. The figure equates to roughly 75 million dollars.
Mrs. V. V. Albert of Upper Frenchville Maine testifies that after rheumatic sores on her husband’s legs resisted three doctors and many remedies, Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent dried the sores in three weeks and cured him in three months.
A quotation from the Chicago Evening Post notes the Washington birthday celebration in Peoria drew instant recognition when the national anthem played. The Peorians are described as quick to identify familiar tunes.
One hundred dollars reward for the cure of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio endorsed by Walpine Kinnan Marvin wholesale grocers. Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Report notes that the Annapolis naval academy cut telephone lines after many female callers contacted midshipmen, consuming excessive time and delaying duties. The move reflects wartime social shifts and restrictions on personal communication at the military school.
An estate of mixed notices advertises Garfield Digestive Tablets from Garfield Tea Co Brooklyn for 25c per bottle with samples on request. References mention national destitution deaths in Britain and Dr Kline’s Great Nerve trial bottle with free treatise. Also notes millinery feathers from Germany to England and a children’s syrup for gums and colic at 25c.
An old fashioned maternal remedy praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard treatment for women's illnesses. Mrs. Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri recounts twelve years of suffering with female ailments and eleven doctors before using the tonic, which she credits with restored health and strength and urges other women to seek help.
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