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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
3
A narrator uses a railway metaphor to urge preparation and grit. The locomotive in the round house, ready to travel, needs sand to grip slippery tracks and prevent slipping on frost or steep grades. With chance and life paths, having sand means faster ascent to success and reaching Flashtown.
A teacher recalls Lafe Warren, a poor, bright boy who saves for his brother Cy, who is arrested for burglary. Cy’s prison term funds go to Lafe for education, and the two brothers’ bond tests faith and hope. Cy later repents and is pardoned after Lafe delivers a valedictory.
Discussion outlines a shift from traditional vaccination which uses a living germ to a new approach. The piece notes the traditional method injects a disease-causing germ into the body and contrasts it with an alternative that avoids introducing live agents.
Seventy seven year old man describes six months of severe eczema all over his body including scalp. He reports sleeping after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent for one night and being cured in a month. Source names W Harrison Smith Mt Kisco NY Feb 3 1908 and Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Boston. Berlin has a club with 300 divorced members.
An old advertisement touts Murine eye remedy for red weak watery eyes and related conditions with claims of soothing eye pain. It mentions products by Murine Eye Remedy Co Chicago and promotes free eBooks. Also includes Allen’s Foot-Ease for foot issues and shoe comfort with free samples and mail addresses.
An advertisement touts Lane's Family Medicine as a cure all for stomach and bowel comfort, blood cleansing, skin clarity, and relief from headache and backache. It promotes a pleasant herb tea and notes druggists and dealers sell it for 25 cents. It also mentions champagne grapes pressed six times.
Maria Ward Brown profiles Dan Rice the clown in Memoirs of Dan Rice The Clown of Our Daddies. The 500 page illustrated volume collects his jokes caustic harangues anecdotes and songs and is offered by Book Publishing House for $1.60 postpaid.
The census note states that Germany's population increases by about 900,000 each year due to birth rates exceeding deaths. The line ends with incomplete text "'N.Y.-20".
A German investigator claims a single puff releases about four billion particles of dust into the air. The ad-mixed text touts Hamlins Wizard Oil and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, claiming swift throat relief and teething comfort with set prices noted in the fragment.
Gardiner Maine woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash with curing her organic troubles and severe female weakness avoiding surgery. She urges others to try the tonic and notes Mrs Pinkham offers free advice from Lynn Massachusetts to sick women.
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