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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
3
A light column notes a housework driven wife and a public reaction to domestic life. It cites wives in media gossip and letters to Miss Close about marriage proposals from strangers. Targeted humor reflects social norms and flirtations of the era.
A mother explains her method of teaching her children business correspondence. She gives them an idea of the message, has them draft letters, then revises and rewrites. She values the training for the children, believing they will write independently in time.
A column mixes praise for New York’s elderly women with a quirky culinary aside from Woman's Home Companion. It compares seniors’ freshness to youth, then switches to a smelt recipe with step by step frying and a stock sauce featuring anchovy essence and parsley.
The article describes tailored suits for schoolgirls, including pleated skirts with bretelles and double-breasted coats for younger girls and single-breasted coats for older girls. It recommends colors like navy blue, royal blue, golden brown, and gray, plus regulation navy serge sailor suits and simple tub dresses for warm weather.
The New York Press extols elderly women in the city, praising their vitality, fashion sense, and zest for life. It lauds their brisk strides, modern flair, and capacity for authentic flirtation and cheerful confidences, portraying them as the handsomest and most astonishing elderly women in the world.
An English panel names Miss Ivy Close the most beautiful woman in England after evaluating 15,000 portraits, rating her above Miss Marguerite Frey. The piece offers fashion and beauty tips from teas to cucumber remedies and outlines everyday and event outfits for young and older girls, linking attire to school life and social occasions.
The article praises a mansion redesigned for hospitality featuring a room device that dispenses towels water and even civil answers when a $5 gold piece is inserted. It promises cheaper guest comfort than relying on servants enabling inviting clever guests to house parties rather than only the very rich.
Dr Joseph Walsh of the Phipps Institute told the Plastic Club that altitude and White Haven air do not cure consumption. He stressed discipline and diet at sanitariums, warned against sleeping in shared spaces, dry dusting, and gas or coal stove emissions. He cited 1892 death rate drops and autopsy findings to argue most adults have or will encounter tuberculosis.
A boy, carrying a stack of newspapers, quarrels with another near the subway entrance. He pushes a bandaged wrist to beg sympathy and customers, while bystanders suspect the scuffle may be a ploy to boost sales. One man doubts a wound exists.
Superintendent W C Day seeks to recover two cannon known as the Twin Sisters. Presented by Cincinnati citizens to the Texas army in 1835 they were used by General Sam Houston at San Jacinto. Last heard in New Orleans at the U S arsenal after Texas entry into the United States.
The article recounts the Grail tale linking the paschal lamb vessel to Joseph of Arimathea who is said to have taken the dish after the Last Supper. It describes the blood from Christ’s spear wound lodged in the vessel, its journey to England, and its eventual deposit at Glastonbury Abbey before allegedly leaving for the heavens due to troubled times.
Reports describe bats discovered in India with wingspread reaching six feet. Scientists note these large specimens display unusual size for the species and prompt zoological interest.
Mexico builds newFrench guns for defense. German troops mass in Alsace Lorraine. Brazilian deputies back higher defense funding. Delagrange shatters air records at Issy. Belgian parliament approves Congo annexation treaty. Nevada backs Senator Newlands for re election. Turkish subjects applaud new constitution in New York. Roe Hinkle shoots boarding mistress in Seneca South Carolina. Reporter visits Harry Thaw in Poughkeepsie jail. Zia Bey flees from Newark. Dutch ultimatum to Venezuela over Curacao trade. James Treadwell acquitted in California Safe Deposit case.
King Edward faced annoyances during a Marienbad visit as tailors from Paris Berlin Vienna Budapest and other capitals swarmed the public promenade daily to note his attire and sketch distinctive suits.
Minister Calvo of Costa Rica met Acting Secretary Bacon in Washington to discuss Andrew Carnegie's $100,000 donation for the Pan American Court House at Cartago. A plan is under study to transfer the funds to trustees who will use it as Carnegie directed.
In North Amherst Massachusetts William Loomis fired at an impudent crow. The rifle recoil broke his collar bone and one rib. The crow flew off uninjured and cawed derisively.
Anna Dodge of Brooklyn found a ring set with four diamonds in a blackbird nest while children played near Caldwell J. The item is valued at 350 dollars and reported as discovered by a local girl.
A brother and a Michigan family report healing eczema with Cuticura Ointment and Remedies. The first case ends after three summers of outbreaks. the second details a severely ill child cured, with no relapse. Mrs. Sarah E. Lusk notes dates in 1907 from Coldwater, Michigan.
Remarks point to waning masculine friendships amid busy modern life. Some exchanges once shared by men now occur between women and men as equals, argues London Light from New York.
The General Demand for a simple pleasant laxative is met by the California Fig Syrup Co with Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. The ad claims physicians approve this known remedy, sold by leading druggists at fifty cents a bottle.
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