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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1908
Page
3
A cheerful dog named Bill helps a worried hen who has misplaced an egg. Bill searches and locates the unbroken egg in a safe nook. The hen rewards him with three tail feathers and a children's magazine.
Recreation notes describe the wild boar as a supreme fighter with ferocity unmatched in animals. It can topple an elephant, hold its own against a tiger, and outrun horses in early bursts. Tigers show respect, and a rider faced with a boar finds it nearly untouchable in breakaway.
A northern newspaper essay collection recalls a patient child who keeps cheerful through weaving and says she asks the king for help only when tangled. It also shares a memory of Charley the horse who knew the school route, fetched the girls, and ended his days cherished by the family.
A short moral story advises children on which days to cry and which days to avoid crying. An older wiser man lists days of the week with cautions about crying on Monday through Sunday. He concludes children should not cry on the counting of days.
Mary Elizabeth Stone recalls the old man’s moral guidance meant for the very young. He framed rules to help millions of little boys and girls, urging them to do the right thing, even as nights bring sleep.
Dolly pursues a stubborn rule as Ted, clever and bold, steals her tan gloves to wear to church. He climbs a rope via the transom to reach her room, presenting the prize with triumph. Dolly, realizing her rival, locks away and steels her heart for future plunder.
German electrician Robert Hopfeldt applies autogenous welding to solder aluminum wires, achieving direct union of aluminum. Wood shrinks very little along grain, much more across grain, allowing longitudinal shrinkage to be considered separately in volume calculations.
The report notes volumetric shrinkage by species: blue gum eucalyptus 26 percent of dry volume, red cedar 7 percent, hickory 20 percent, long leaf pine 15 percent. An inventor claims smokeless coal via extraction of smoke-producing material. Government steamboat safety laws require non-burnable and non-sinkable vessels, and Sir William White reports torpedo boat tests with Dr Schilick gyroscopic apparatus stabilizing ships and extinguishing motion.
Charles Von Soehnen of Colfax Washington testifies that kidney pains backache and rheumatism plagued him for decades. He credits Deans Kidney Pills with restoring much of his health and says they give him near complete relief. Sold by dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Michigan man vows to forego a haircut until Harriman refunds money he gained from the Alton deal. The ultimatum casts doubt on his sanity and hair status as reported by the Denver Post.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh at all stages, with a hundred dollar reward for any failure. The ad notes internal Medicine targeting blood and mucous surfaces, promising constitution boost and nature’s aid, and urges sent testimonials from F. J. Caney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A compact humorous exchange notes that you can tell a Harvard man, but you cannot tell him much, with a quip attributed to Harpers Weekly about a New Haven origin.
In France stock offerings require tangible capital verified by a government official before sale. England’s 1896 Pennington-Lawson swindle spurred reform. The Horseless Age argues Americans must curb stock-jobbing through legislation and public sentiment to prevent vast, violent industrial plots behind dishonest trade practices.
John A. Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin announces a mail offer to gain 250000 customers in 1908. Free catalog includes many seed packages and postage paid offer, with pricing details and bundled garden products. Also mentions irrigation in South Africa ancient practices and Garfield Tea as a laxative. The note claims 19 million Methodists worldwide.
The London correspondent cites Turkish press noting extraordinary longevity in the Ottoman Empire. Hadji Reif of Keni Baghtha is said to be 134 and once served as a bookseller at a military school for 80 years. his father reportedly died at 142 as a government official.
The warning urges asking a druggist for Brown's Bronchial Traches to relieve a persistent cough. It also notes New York has more hospitals than any other city and advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain at 25 cents. Nut palms live from New York 6.
Viper hunter Nimer Vacheron of Thezy near Yops reports a remarkable two year total with 489 vipers killed this season and a single day tally of 22, eclipsing last year’s 497 in a London Globe note.
A Portland resident recalls a breakfast table conversation between a mother and her child. The mother defends her respect for the father while the child cites the mother’s choice of father, arguing she did not pick him. Montreal Star.
A reader questions the claim that the first expedition to the South Pole occurred in 1567. The Yonkers Statesman notes this as an error or humorous aside and asks if lectures existed that early.
A letter from Mrs. Lily Hedge of Camberwell Green England states her son Owen suffered severe eczema from infancy to adolescence, with doctors deeming it incurable. After using Cuticura Remedies for six months he is reportedly fully cured, as of January 12 1907. A separate note mentions a needle machine producing 1 500 000 needles weekly.
A pasted ad assortment notes a laxative Bromo Quinine product promising cures in one day with BE Grove signature hint and Woolford's Lotion claim of quick itch relief. Mentions Rome leather trunks used in Caesar era and cites a stat about insanity recovery rates.
A Gardiner Maine woman and a Chicago resident credit Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing female troubles without surgery. The ads claim the remedy has helped thousands for displacements inflammation and other gynecologic issues and invite sick women to write for advice from Lynn Mass.
A farm mortgage in Arkansas is sold by a bank to Vander Voort at a 6 percent rate. The deal involves a superior claim and appears in the legal notices.
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