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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1908
Page
3
The camper John Engler on Long Island near Rockaway Park Station stops weekend visits by hosting guests with salt fish salt beef and hardtack meals and improvised sand beds. The guests decline and return to town, sparing the camper from disturbances and restoring quiet camp life.
London researchers led by Leonard Hill test oxygen use to extend breath holding and reduce fatigue in runners. Trials show improved comfort and times, with athletes like Holding and Just posting faster splits after brief oxygen sessions. Potential world records and even horse racing experiments are discussed as future applications.
The Argonaut reports Mrs. Maloney stood before the judge charged with assault on Policeman Casey. She remained attentive as the judge summed up evidence, admitting she threw a stone and asserting she hit him.
A Philadelphia Ledger column recalls a quip about giving up a seat in crowded transit. The exchange questions courtesy during peak hours and reflects social attitudes of the era.
Instructions for making a gingerbread cake using molasses lard and butter, ginger, hot water and soda, with a chocolate icing. The batter should be stiff but spreadable, baked in a biscuit pan, cooled before removing, and iced with melted unsweetened chocolate.
A detailed method for preparing dressed crab. Select a heavy crab, boil, remove meat, mix white meat and soft meat with crumbs parsley oil and vinegar, fill the shell in striped layers, pipe butter around edge, arrange claws, and garnish with parsley on lace paper.
Practical tips on treating insect stings with salt or soda water, disposing burnt matches, deterring insects with salt alum or carpet adherence, softening vegetables by cutting across fibers, singeing chickens over alcohol fumes, stain removal with raw potato, paraffin in cleaning water, homemade fly deterrent using pepper cream, kerosene for tar removal and cleaning, honeyed oil for brass beds, and olive oil care for brass with prompt cheesecloth finish.
A Philadelphia piece praises Mrs Housekeep as exceptionally honorable for not stealing another woman's cook, noting her restraint and high character in a brief personal exchange about Mrs Ascum.
Mrs M L Harris of Alton Kan recalls a baby with facial eczema lasting three months. After three months with a doctor and then Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent, the dermatitis cleared. The ad notes the product claims and a teething syrup priced at 25 cents.
A church committee seeking subscriptions for a chime of bells visited a poor member who offered what he could. He suggested it would be cheaper to install a whistle instead, as quoted by the Argonaut.
An 1890s advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for a cure of catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a remedy taken internally. It includes testimonials, the firm Warp ing Kinnan Marvin as Toledo druggists, and price 75 cents per bottle. Mentions Hall's Family Pills and notes New York living costs 12 percent higher than three years ago.
A local note reports Thibet in New York observes a five day work week this week. Officials and residents discuss long standing schedules and community routines.
Mrs. T. C. Willadsen of Manning Iowa writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her chronic female complaints after years of illness and costly treatments. She says following the woman's advice she recovered to perfect health and would advise others to try it.
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