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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1908
Page
3
Van Ness Street San Antonio resident writes that in 1902 lingering catarrh with night sweats and deep cough prompted him to use Peruna. He says symptoms faded after thorough use and his health recovered to a high level, with occasional later use to cure bad colds.
The Lancet favors horse flesh as food noting its lower tuberculin immunity risk versus beef and European adoption. It cites Anglo-Saxon prejudice and sentiment against killing horses, but raises an ethical question on whether motor enthusiasts may become best friends by eating him for survival.
An Albany Journal reader laments the loss of milkmen announcing arrivals with a bell. He condemns today's practice of a shouting youth yelling M i l k at the door, calling it nerve racking and rough compared to the old bell.
German consumers spend over 12.5 million dollars annually on trashy books. About 760 million sensational volumes were sold in one year, highlighting a booming but controversial reading market.
A lizard sixty feet long thirty three feet high and weighing about fifteen tons is exhibited at the Field Museum Chicago. It was discovered near Fruita California in 1901.
A cold climate diaries a Dakota woman known as the pale girl finds coffee worsens headaches indigestion and nerves. After using Postum she gains color energy and relief, still praising Drape-Nuts and Postum with a testimonial from Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and a nod to The Road to Wellville.
From the Outing Magazine, the piece outlines a French agricultural hierarchy. It names great landowners like the Rothschilds and describes farmer generals, independent smallholders, and the half shares men who work under owners. It notes labor shifts toward cities and factories, and the lingering feudal duties placed on the half shares man.
Thirty one motorcycle records were set at a Los Angeles track. Lewis Strang won the Lowell 250 mile auto race in the Briarcliff Tsotta. The Bel captured the Nutmeg $5000 2.07 pace at Hartford in straight heats with a best 2.05. Philadelphia cricketers returned home after a successful England tour. Battling Nelson knocked out Joe Gans in Colma in twenty one rounds. A Reno race course is planned for cheaper horse classes. Over 40,000 watched Nazareth Fair racing. Minor Heir ran a mile in 1.59% at Milwaukee. W K Vanderbilt Jr renounces auto racing after Enrone. Harry Payne Whitney’s team won three at Sheepshead Bay including Lanshire Stakes with Perseus. A South Norwalk crew won a rowing race for the United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps. Sylvester Gookin died in Boston of heart failure. Belmont and Keene reportedly plan a joint English racing venture.
A tale from the Brooklyn Eagle recounts Lord Stanhope meeting a courteous highwayman who asks for a watch. When refused, the nobleman offers to deposit the watch value as cash in a tree for retrieval later. Years later a city magnate sends back one hundred guineas with a note claiming a prior loan funded his rise, revealing the highwayman was the same man.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr reaches adulthood without choosing a career. James J Hill returns from the West and won't repudiate Harriman on peace. Keir Hardie asserts working class rule. Baron Sackville dies in Sevenoaks. Lord Wolseley near 75 with close calls. Percy Britting knighted on king's birthday. Emperor Francis Joseph's 78th birthday greeted with festivals. Murray knighted by King Edward. Edwin Abbey returns to Pennsylvania from Britain with commissions. Bartholdi to propose two peace conference resolutions in Berlin. Suit filed to break Etienne Givernaud will at Hoboken silk mill affair.
Senator Byron W. Newberry of Strawberry Point Iowa offered a dollar for every rattler found on his farm after a near fatal bite. Neighborhood boys hunted the snakes and turned in fourteen specimens for the bounty.
A mountain lion attacked the hut of Herculano Flores in Jedeza de Caballo Mexico killing Flores his wife and two children The villagers drove off the animals after they had eaten the children. In a separate note Hawaiian bonds in London floated 750000 for Hamakoa Ditch project.
A LeSueur Minnesota family credits the Cutiura Remedies with curing their two month old daughter’s eczema after months of worsening rash. The mother reports dramatic improvement in two months and absence of sores since. Also a Citizenship exam anecdote where an Italian man confuses naturalization with a tattoo trace.
Frank J Cheney sworn as senior partner of F J Dohenry & Co Toledo Ohio. firm will pay one hundred dollars for each caparah case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason dated December 6. Includes testimonial requests and product claims.
Cane sugar investments reach 7.3 million dollars in Natal Colony and British South Africa, second only to coal mining, trailing by about 500000 dollars. This reflects the sector's prominence in regional industry and capital allocation.
Letters from Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound users claim avoidance of surgery. Mrs. Williams of Gardiner Maine credits three months of treatment for recovery from female troubles. Mrs. Sperling of Chicago says her life was saved without operation after doctors advised one.
Mrs. Thomas Dunn of 153 Vine St Columbus Ohio describes ten years of back ache and exhaustion then credits Deans Kidney Pills with quick relief and a permanent cure. The ad states the product is sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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