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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1908
Page
3
A collection of traditional recipes for Blueberry Slump Raisin Pie Blackberry Muffins and Raspberry Jelly. Instructions cover boiling berries making dough with flour baking powder and salt forming muffins lifting butter with milk and sugar and finishing with a sugar infused jelly suitable for flavoring creams. The methods emphasize simple pantry ingredients and step by step mixing boiling simmering and baking.
Trinidad correspondent reports that at a Cokedale camp of Ameri can Smelting and Refining Company leaky reservoirs troubled operations. Superintendent Bayles and Engineer Sutton used a herd of goats to trample the basin bottom, water was turned in again, and the reservoir now holds as well as if newly cemented.
A testimonial claims coffee causes headaches and nervousness and promotes Postum as a healthier substitute. The writer shares a child’s prolonged coffee use and relief after switching to Postum, urging others to read about wellbeing and the product.
Reports from Europe and America describe experiments on light shaft visibility for lighthouse use and a push to adopt Kelvin as the unit name for electrical energy. A Burlington Railroad test claims automatic train stoppage at block signals, while Olympia Greece yields neolithic remains near Zeus altar dating habitation over two millennia BCE.
Dr. W. Sohier Bryant argues preventable hearing loss in 95 percent of cases and advises otologist consultation after any cold. The text explains inflammatory and ventilation-related middle ear changes harming hearing. It then discusses rapid helion lamp development using flashing to create a durable filament with higher temp tolerance and longer life for shock exposure, such as on battleships.
Ingalls argues prairie grass is the nation’s key pasture resource. He notes land near El Dorado sells for at least 20 dollars an acre and reserves May to October value at 1.25 per acre. Kentucky bluegrass spreads, reducing prairie stands across Kansas Illinois Iowa Missouri. The piece stresses conservation of this vital grass.
Pat and Kettie share a playful exchange about a college student who laughed at their Merry Widow hats. Pearl recalls the peer as the college chap wearing an ingrown hat with two corners turned down and a blue and yellow band.
Mrs. James M. Long of Staunton Virginia reports first relief from backache and kidney troubles in January 1903 and four and a half years later says she has not had kidney trouble since. Pills sold 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. The Venice St Mark’s Church campanile is expected to finish by 1911 with brick fired twice then water cured and a workforce of about one hundred laying 3500 bricks daily.
A St. Louis mother recounts a severe infant eczema case. After doctors offered little relief, she used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and reports complete cure in three months. The note includes her address and dates in 1907.
A German paper notes that the original Baedeker appeared in Coblenz on the Rhine in 1839. Baedeker, born in Essen in 1801, was a bookseller by trade, and the idea of tourist guides existed prior to him.
Belgium introduces a Sunday postage stamp for mail not to be delivered on Sunday. Items bearing the stamp are held by carriers and postponed to Monday delivery.
John Eaton of Kingston New Hampshire amassed a notable collection of Indian relics, largely dug from his garden over the last century. Upon his death the collection will be donated to Sanborn Seminary in Kingston.
Leesburg Virginia woman Maude E Forgie writes Mrs am of suffering improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and prescribed treatment. The letter touts decades of use and invites other sick women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
Reports on reactions to Professor Herrick’s view of American women, domestic life contrasts England, surgical success on Mrs. Trebell, the Cedric voyage disruption, and changes in Chicago School Board appointments. Queen Alexandra bans sheath gowns. Mrs. Conyngham faces desertion charges. Women’s League pledges jobs for 1600 more women by September 15. tribute to Mme Vradot. England’s court tone questioned. Peoria resident Mrs. George M. Lively licensed as river steamer captain.
Cincinnati pitcher Cy Young III joins Jersey City while Merkle Ferzog return to New York. Sandon Mertes plays in Chicago and Busch sells to Detroit. Brown and Cleveland trade moves surface as Donlin and Cobb expected to clash in the world series. Ebbetts seeks Rudderham’s discharge. Murphy touts larger crowds despite hard times.
Notes on events across the world and United States include Turkey's call for a parliamentary meeting on November 1, protests over licensing drinkers in Montclair New Jersey, chorus girls planning a ten story club house in New York City, exposure of sterch in sausage by Northwestern Packing Chicago, Curator Ditmars testing a poisonous sting myth at the Bronx Zoo, Lloyds London bets on Bryan dropping, shipping conference steerage rate talks, Turkish reforms viewed skeptically by English observers, Denver and Rio Grande railways merged into a single company in Colorado and Utah.
The article argues that Peruna contains two types of remedies for catarrh an array of standard catarrh cures and tonic ingredients. It claims the compound includes well known herbs with reputations in treating catarrh and tonic effects, noting chronic catarrh is widespread and many patients have sought multiple doctors without lasting relief.
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