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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1908
Page
4
The excerpt presents a playful verse about a phoenix figure praising its blaze and continued business presence. It notes the bird’s splendor and the belief it remains not extinct while recounting public skepticism and admiration in a witty, period tone.
Miss Giram recounts a comic misadventure after mistakenly taking a department store hand warmer, then paying the price of suspicion and a mislaid umbrella on an elevated train. Neighbors marvel at the delicate blend of guilt, psychology, and social embarrassment.
A Chicago News item describes Miss Girum recounting a theft where a witness followed a man who kept close to her as she left, and she suspects the umbrella she brought home may have belonged to him. A neighbor suggests his interest in her may explain the loss. The exchange ends with cautious optimism.
A wanderer who sought adventure returns to start a family and studies a modern American household. He greets his six children from fourteen to four, notes the equality creed, and asks his own private eye to verify a bachelor life, ending with him signing a ten year lease for a bachelor apartment.
Le Cri de Paris notes the Beaux-Arts superintendent plans to remove the Meissonnier statue once near the Louvre. The paper condemns the sculpture as pretentious and diminutive in subject, praising neither its fame nor its lasting value.
The Providence Journal cites the Boston Record criticizing a new General Banks statue for creased trousers. It argues 1860s soldiers lacked such creases and compares the issue to modern novel illustrations showing hair and gowns in twentieth century fashion.
Surface mildews may be cured by dusting equal parts of sulphur and lime. To make the measurement more accurate weigh both powders before mixing.
A guide from the Indianapolis News advises avoiding boiling water on egg stained table linen. Soak in cold water first to loosen and remove the stain easily before washing.
Food officers at a Macinac Island convention warn that cold storage fish risk becoming poisonous during thawing. National and state authorities are urged to act to prevent fish entering cold storage, according to National Food Magazine.
The Washington Star describes a new lamp shade style using a pale pink silk frame and hand-made Irish crochet or imitation filet lace. The design allows home copying at low cost, features pink underlay, sections fitted with lace, scalloped edges, white silk gimp seams, and a white fringe finish.
The secret of success in caring for goldfish is fresh water. Change the globe water every two days, gently lift the fish in water, rinse the globe, and refill. Use clear rainwater warmed to 75 to 80 degrees, as sparkling well water is too cold and too pure. Feed sparingly with a few bread crumbs daily. overfeeding kills them.
A kitchen note outlines marshmallow filling and frosting by simmering brown sugar and cream to soft ball stage, then adding marshmallows and vanilla. Also describes cucumber salad with iced lemon water, red pepper, onion juice, and oil vinaigrette, plus baked tomatoes with green corn, butter, and optional peppers as a vegetable entree.
Mrs Hyde recalls a severe eczema outbreak on her daughter spreading from chest to head. After two doctors failed to help, Cutieura Soap Ointment and Pills ended the disease in three quarters of a finish. She credits swift relief and calls it magical. Also mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain at 25 cents.
A tourist recalls sailing home from Europe and spotting iceberg gardens blooming on a sunlit berg. The captain notes such gardens are not rare as moss carried by animals seeds blooms into yellow flowers, creating a surreal Arctic spectacle of a drifting cold berg with a yellow garden.
Product advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures constitutional catarrh with blood action and offers a $100 reward. Includes address F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio and price 75c. The page also notes straw hats were used by ancient Greeks but not common in Europe until 50 years ago.
Advertisement notes an ample treatment for piles and fistula from the Red Cross Pile and Fistula Cure. It offers a free book explaining piles, distributed by the REA Co department in Minneapolis Minnesota.
Mrs. Sallie French of Pancannla, Ind. Ter., writes that after seven years of female troubles she became run-down and nervous. Doctors offered no relief, but after taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she grew strong and well.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the standard cure for female ailments including displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities pains backache and nervous prostration. It invites letters to Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts for confidential, free advice based on her years of experience.
London houses run a world wide orchid trade with many plants sourced from Brazil. The Botanic Gardens in Rio de Janeiro boast over 6000 orchid varieties. N. Y. 42.
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