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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1908
Page
4
A London physician warns that rising female cigarette use is altering diets. Women now crave spiced and highly seasoned dishes where creams and ices once dominated, signaling a notable shift in eating habits.
A New England girl invented jig-saw puzzles before Christmas. Boston popularized the pastime as resorts from Bar Harbor to Atlantic Beach embraced them. Four firms sped production, selling puzzles for fifty cents to three dollars. Ocean liners stocked them. passengers carried them aboard. Enthusiasts craft their own puzzles, finding the matching process and creation equally engaging. The Field Offi- is among popular pictures used as the source images.
Queen Eleonore of Bulgaria plans to open a school for blind subjects in Bucharest inspired by the Roumanian queen's institution. She is described as benevolent and deeply interested in anything promising amusement or comfort for the blind.
Miss Dora Eaton of Mills College California has been elected superintendent of the women's dormitory at Ohio State University. The note says there is strong demand for educated young women in colleges for roles requiring home economics expertise.
Siam passes a law granting women voting rights in certain cases. Siamese women credit Buddhism with teaching gender equality and equal education for boys and girls.
The fragment recalls a six year old girl described as the sunny curled darling of the village, daughter of the local physician, with big blue eyes fixed on the world.
Instructions for making raised dough crullers with sponge overnight and proofing. Ingredients include warm water yeast butter sugar cinnamon nutmeg salt eggs and flour. Roll to half inch thickness cut shapes and fry in deep hot lard with care to spatter.
A doctor's daughter answers a Sunday school lesson by imagining a chain of blessings: if a patient recovers, the doctor is paid, the money supports the mother, she buys a new dress, they visit a vacant lot, and the child rides a big fierce lion on the merry go round. The tale highlights a child’s bright, hopeful view.
A social craze grips readers as jig saw puzzles replace other amusements. Women race to complete intricate wooden blocks on trains ships and hotels while onlookers plead not to touch. The writer notes puzzles as a defining pastime of the era.
The New York Times notes well known artworks and figures such as Detaille’s picture and the term Wild West alongside Mohammedan Scouts, Girl With Apples, In Holland, The Pilots, Hans, The Fruit Girl, Love Letters and the Christy Girl.
Taupe dominates hat fashion with fur felt returns and a short waisted silhouette. Washable fabrics lead children's wear, crepe de chine features, and square mesh filet embroidery appears. High pompadours fade as side puffs and low back knots rise, while yellow shades and black pair with dusky blue. Swanskins influence Parisienne millinery with marabout trims and ostrich accents.
The text notes that adding three drops of mercury to each ounce of common solder lowers the melting point so it fuses readily to join soft metals.
A Newark mother recalls her six week old son’s severe facial eczema fading after using Cuticura Remedies. The child, now seven, shows no return of trouble. Also mentions Holland’s population and Georgia needing 7000 cars for its peach crop.
A sallow passenger with eyeglasses chatters about weather fruit and sports while others read. The man mentions Jake Schaefer beating a youth at billiards and speculates on Taft Hughes La Follette for the next nomination. A fatal elevated train death is noted in passing.
Fifty years of service by Major Charles D. Loeffler, White House doorkeeper, highlights a page featuring Putnam Color advertisement claiming brighter colors, all-fiber dyes, cold-water application, and a free booklet on bleaching and color mixing.
A Kernersville reader describes chronic stomach upset and unease until using Peruna with Dr. Hartman’s guidance. She credits relief from catarrh of the stomach and urges others with similar ailments to try Peruna, noting many letters support its benefits.
A recipe touts a never failing remedy for rheumatism claiming complete cure for severe cases. It prescribes half a pint whiskey one ounce Toris Compound and one ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound taken in tablespoonful doses before meals and at bedtime. The note adds peanut oil comparisons between African and American varieties.
Mrs. R C Richmond of Northwood Iowa reports years of kidney trouble backache and dizziness ended after using Dean's Kidney Pills. After three boxes the backache vanished and overall health improved. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A stable scene shows the master catching the hostler and his son with a broken kite tail. The son blames rubber heels the owner wears for his absence from work, prompting a sharp rebuke about diligence. The item appears as a brief anecdote from Youth's Companion.
A single specimen of the Antimacus butterfly has been sold for five hundred fifty dollars, highlighting strong demand among collectors and rare butterfly markets.
In Saxony iron foundries reduce work time as a prudent measure per consul Clarence Rice Slocum of Zittau. Frank J. Cheney sworn Toledo Ohio details offer of one hundred dollars for any catarrh cured or not by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
A young boy learns about water scarcity and proposes giving up washing to help. He speaks with his mother about the drought and the papers reporting shortages, showing thoughtful charity in a simple act.
In North Wales a fly blocked an electric train staff instrument delaying despatch for nearly five hours. An investigation found a dead fly lodged in the contact mechanism, preventing current flow and halting the single line section.
The government plans to acquire about 2000 miles of private railway line locomotives in Austria next year at an estimated cost of 15 million dollars. The move involves both American and English engines for the government owned network.
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