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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1908
Page
4
Miss Helen Sauerbier of St Joseph Minnesota recounts a sudden cold turning into catarrh and says Peruna cured her in nine days. She notes three days to loosen phlegm and regain appetite and spirits. She advocates Peruna as an old well tried remedy for women.
Speaker J G Cannon sells a 700 acre Nebraska farm for 49000. Dr J Loudon arrives in Washington as new Netherlands minister. Count Hayashi denies Japanese expansion plans. Roosevelt to donate hunted animals to National Museum. Grand Duke Constantine praised as versatile in Russian czar relations. Czar Ferdinand enters Sofia amid warm welcome with no foreign officials present. Parkhurst scorns American hustle as harming progress. David Belasco lauded as hardest worker among American playwrights. Admiral Dewey healthy and heavier, greets the President after a mountain vacation.
A $20,000,000 terminal station is planned for the lines serving San Francisco, marking a major expansion of the railway infrastructure. The project aims to upgrade capacity and speed along the network.
A New York man describes indigestion relief after a two week trial of Grape-Nuts with cream toast soft boiled eggs and Postum. He reports acidity disappearing appetite returning and enjoying a noon meal. The letter ends with a plug for The Road to Wellville and the Postum Company.
A description of a four button coat and several hat variations. The model One Small Hat features a heavy First Empire style crown with no brim and a edge trimmed by a wreath of flowers or velvet twist. A single large rose serves as a prominent hat ornament.
A soft wide hat in fawn or brown velour trimmed with a grouse wing and a ribbon appears as the newest outing hat importation for men. Women are advised not to buy them for themselves but to take the hat home for husbands or brothers as shops push early sales.
The tucked guimpe is a fashionable choice this season crafted from many materials such as net chiffon crepe Ninon. It fits snugly at the lower body and offers long or three quarter sleeve options with front and back darts and tucked upper portions. The illustration shows Ninon trimmed with banding at the neck and arm holes.
The passage describes coat construction with velvet collar trimming and suitable suiting materials. It covers cutaway and pointed effects, lapels formed by turned fronts, two-part full sleeves, and specified yardages for medium and other sizes across widths from forty four to fifty two inches, plus banding yardage.
The sleeveless coat appears this season as a compromise between a shirt waist and a true coat. It is worn over skirts of voile or thin cloth or crepe de chine to match in color.
The report notes annual human heart blood flow about 1 206 000 gallons. A Kansan quadrangle screen device aims to block insects at doors. European trials test a water microphone to detect fish shoals. A new phone energy inefficiency estimate by M. Abraham is cited. A sea onion poison kills rats in tests, with German experiments showing sustained rodent decline.
French scientist M. Bertin notes Jersey once belonged to Europe and cites an old abbey charter ordering planks to reach the island at low water. He tracks coast erosion and a rapid sea advance now makes the France to Jersey trip by steamship take an hour.
A Popular Mechanics note describes telegraph printing machines speeding message handling. Messages are punched on tape, fed to sending units, and received by an electrically driven typewriter style mechanism. Duplex operation allows two messages to run simultaneously.
The piece laments the decline of stock companies and acting, noting how stage and audience influence each other. It criticizes oversized halls and the dominance of musical comedy, likening the Sacred Lamp to a vanishing spark from Temple Bar to Piccadilly.
A remark by a lefthanded guest at a past event drew laughs and groans as he complimented the suffragettes. He claimed his line about leaving footprints on the sands of time did not land well with the audience.
More than 25 000 railroad employees trained in first aid at company expense after injuries. program aims to speed treatment and reduce danger for workers.
Mrs R Crouse of Manchester Iowa reports two years of back pain rheumatic symptoms and sleep loss. After using Dean's Kidney Pills her kidney function normalizes, backache ends, and health improves markedly. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
The item reports Servia's war fever cooling, British mail records, the Cretan Parliament voting union with Greece, Haitis president’s wife Mme Nord Alexis dying, Montenegro approving 3.2 million for war, a London noise crusade against motor buses, Servians in New York pledging support, Illinois child cruelty reports, an arbitration treaty with China signed in Washington, a boycott movement in Constantinople, talks on uniting South African colonies, Lackawanna RR railing rice throwing at weddings, Herman Ridder named Democratic National Committee treasurer, a Java ape at the Bronx Zoo, and Parisian M A Augustin Rey warning skyscrapers threaten New York.
London reveals the highest unemployment in its history as broadened jobless figures surge across the city. Officials warn the trend may worsen amid economic strains and prolonged market softness.
Promotion of a trusted health product, Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, as an ethical family laxative approved by physicians and Well-Informed of the World. Endorses purchasing the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. remedy through leading druggists.
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