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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1908
Page
4
A poet recalls a departed beloved, her image enduring beyond death. The speaker, in twilight, sees her chestnut braids and eyes that shine with memory. Distance cannot sever their bond. beauty and longing bind soul to soul across time. Florence Earle Coates.
A young man on pine needles ponders love as a chorus of nature voices offers varied takes. The pines vow love as wind and cold, the violet as dew and life, the buttercup as sun and peril, and a mature woman adds temptation. The man learns a deeper, personal sense of love from these natural and human voices.
A man wakes to find a beautiful maiden beside a violet in a sunlit pine grove. She speaks of love as life and sacrifice, then vanishes as he pursues. A cloud like a woman’s form lingers at dawn’s edge as he proclaims love is life and to live is to love. Boston Post records the encounter as a dreamy vision of awakening romance.
A St Louis Globe Democrat feature recalls the old Missouri spring houses. Thick stone walls held dairy jars while a spring provided cooling at 45 degrees. Frogs snakes and other creatures mingled with farm life as meat hung from rafters.
A Bohemian clock maker Felix Andele creates an alarm clock that lights a candle when the alarm rings. A spring lifts a candle and wick, and a movable slot allows ignition by a match holder via a winding crank mechanism. The powered match lights the candle wicks, revealing the dial at wake-up.
A Galveston Daily News note argues that failure invites pursuing simpler jobs with high pay. It frames a pragmatic path to wealth through accessible roles rather than extended pursuit.
Nat Anderson of Greenwood New C says kidney trouble began five years ago with dull backache and worsened despite treatment. He cites Dean's Kidney Pills as the cure and notes improved strength and no kidney symptoms since using them. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
Harper's Weekly discusses the idea that advancing aeroplane flight could reduce naval power. It notes officers speculate battleships may become obsolete as Wright aircraft prove capabilities, though substantial shifts in spending would take years.
Mrs V V Albert of Upper Frenchville Maine testifies that after rheumatic sores covered her husband s legs for fifteen years and multiple doctors failed, a regimen of Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent dried the sores in three weeks and cured him in three months. She invites proof of the claim. Red-headed persons are not apt to become bald.
The palm crab of the South Sea Islands climbs coconuts to steal fruit and then falls when grasses tied to the tree upset it. Natives stun it, kill it with a stone axe, bind its nippers, and carry it to camp. Islanders roast the flesh between hot stones as a delicacy per the London Illustrated News.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure as a remedy for deafness caused by catarrh and inflamed Eustachian tube. Claims nine of ten cases cured and offers $100 for any deafness from catarrh not cured, with Toledo Ohio company address and 75 cent product price plus Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The rector led a service in Selston, reviving a century-old charity custom. Loaves donated by parishioners were distributed from a parish churchyard tombstone, with a silver coin baked into each loaf to boost value and interest.
Berlin starts an all year ice skating rink on September 1 making it the fourth permanent rink in Europe after London Paris and Munich. N. Y.-45
A mother questions how many American women in lonely homes long for motherhood yet are denied by organic derangement. The piece urges all women to learn that healthy maternity is achievable through recommended preparation and care.
Mrs Maggie Gilmer of West Union DC reports health restoration after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and becoming a mother. Bardstown's e Sea Hall also praises the remedy for female troubles and improved health. The ad promotes the compound as a long standing standard remedy for displacements inflammation and related symptoms with a request for writings to Lynn MA.
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