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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1908
Page
4
In a Chicago News style scene a portly older man confronts a younger man with blunt candid truths about dodging responsibility and offering plain talk as a remedy. The younger man defends but concedes the benefit of frank criticism while criticizing the elderly man’s meddling habits.
A young man visits a hat store and rejects straw silk or bargain hats. He asks for the very best derby and, after a whispered aside, the salesman realizes he wants a sparking plug. The exchange plays on a misunderstanding in light humor.
The passage states about 9.5 million telephones are in use worldwide, with over 7 million in the United States, 2 million in Europe, and the remainder in nearly every country.
Household ideas from Indianapolis News suggest adding a dash of lemon juice to rice during boiling to whiten the kernels and impart a hint of lemon flavor for a pleasant change. Another note advises repurposing an old umbrella frame with white cloth to dry baby’s clothes, suspended by the handle from the ceiling.
Dust cut glass with a small brush with long pliable bristles. Wash with lukewarm water and borax to restore brilliancy. This also improves pressed glass of better grades. Avoid sudden temperature changes with all glass.
Bruce Moffat argues in the New Haven Register that porches extend living space. Kitchen porches become summer kitchens or laundries. side porches serve as dining or breakfast rooms. upper porches provide sleeping areas. Latticed screened porches offer views, playrooms, or a summer gym in hot weather.
A set of kitchen preparations includes Tapioca Fruit Soup with orange juice grape juice and tapioca, Cherry Pie with crushed crackers and cherries, Ham and Tomatoes breakfast dish with ham eggs and tomatoes, and Spiced Peaches with cider syrup infused with cloves and cinnamon cooked over three mornings.
Amid low water a congestion of coal boats in Pittsburg holds 28 000 carloads of fuel. The New York World asks if consumers must pay higher prices and whether droughts can be borne without cost increases by dealers.
Mrs William Geeding of Attica Indiana describes severe itching sores on her child that healed after three uses of Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She praises the remedies as best she has tried and recommends them to others. Also notes a camel carries three times a horse load and markets Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething at 25 cents.
The Philippines Gossip notes a shift in dress on the Escolta street where ten years ago Filipinos rarely wore shoes or tucked shirts. Now it is rare to see a Filipino without shoes or with a shirt outside his trousers, marking apparent progress.
Medical discussion grows over whiskey as a rheumatism remedy. A formula uses one half pint whiskey plus one ounce Toris Compound and one ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound taken in tablespoonful doses before meals and at night. Toris Compound comes from Globe Pharmaceutical Co. Chicago and ingredients are available from druggists.
Guibollard frets over his watch asking what has happened to it. His wife and child assure him the timepiece is clean, claiming they washed it in the basin.
An advert extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a trusted laxative that cleanses and relieves internal organs without debility. It claims physician approval, natural action, and safety, urging purchase of the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product through leading druggists.
The article traces Philadelphia and Pennsylvania printing from 1795 Ramage presses to 1810 growth, noting $26,000 and $25,000 values for presses and hydraulic engines, 1686 first Pennsylvania press, Franklin era magazines, 1810 half a million volumes, fifty years leading U S printing, 1784 first daily paper, 110 wooden presses, 1810 seven three newspapers in PA, Columbian press in 1817, and 1900 PA publishing firms with $23 million capital and $23.4 million output.
A lawyer declares the act deliberate willful and malicious while a teamster protests and fears jail. The Kansas City Journal notes the confrontation includes terms like evil anarchistic and menacing as authorities weigh charges.
An advertisement offers a 100 dollars reward for catarrh cures not helped by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites endorsements from Walding, Man & Marvin and asserts the remedy works internally through the blood and mucous surfaces. Price is 75 cents per bottle with testimonials available. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A quip from an Atlanta Constitution editor on poetic fire claiming a stove is red hot and that a crate of poetry was tossed into it illustrating a sharp literary joke.
A Washington letter from Hon. R. B. Tharin endorses Peruna for catarrhal disorders and calls it a tonic of great usefulness. T. Barnetcott of Ontario reports recovery from la grippe and pneumonia after using Peruna, noting it helped a tailor regain strength. The piece mentions Peruna tablets as a solid form preserving medicinal ingredients.
A rich manufacturer's son argues for decisive action in marriage disputes while an imperious beauty challenges him. The exchange centers on how a husband should set his course, with tense banter about smoking and privacy. Chicago News, N.Y.-44
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