02 Apr 1910
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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1910
Page
1
Two unidentified Frenchmen fought in a street near the East Side waterfront. An automobilist witness saw them step from a hallway, fire three shots, and one man die from a head wound. The killer escaped, leaving no clues.
The piece argues advertising shifts costs onto patrons and increases overall business volume. It compares selling 100 suits daily at $2 profit each with spending $20 daily on ads to selling 10 suits at $5 profit each, concluding advertising taxes the customer and rewards the advertiser by higher sales.
Rufus Lucas, sentenced to life for murder, calmly fled the Sylvania jail during the night. Sylvester Sasser, also a life prisoner, says Lucas bid him farewell and locked the door to stop another man, Lewis Bryant, from escaping. Bryant is moved to Savannah for safekeeping amid local hostility.
Notice states the steamer tug Morris will be changed to E. B. Malone within fifteen days under authority from the United States Government through the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. D. W. Richardson, U-29-51 Managing Owner.
A masked burglar entered Mrs. Sarah J. Dow's Round Hill residence in Springfield and shot Miss Martha B. Blackstone, a 39 year old public school teacher, fatally. Miss Harriet P. Dow was seriously injured as the intruder fled through the surrounding grove, leaving Dow's mother and sister present.
The Maine hull in Habana harbor would be raised and removed to Arlington Virginia for examination of its destruction. Congress debated the bill with Republicans and Democrats supporting wreck removal and possible exhumation of sailors for burial near Washington, D C.
Pittsburg April 1 The spring floods expected from heavy winter snowfall have dwindled to the lowest river stages on record this early in the season. At the confluence forming the Ohio the gauge reads 3.6 feet prompting engineers to raise wickets to keep water levels up. In 1887 the record for early water stood on April 12. The cause is a gradual thaw followed by a prolonged drought.
A late February Senate remark suggests amendments to a bill. A colleague whispers a correction referencing Washingtons Farewell Address, as reported by the Louisville Courier Journal.
Missouri authorities capture Bill Lowe and George Eberling, the two men tied to the Eureka Missouri fast mail train robbery. Both are jailed in St. Louis with bail set at 20,000 each and face potential life sentences. The break came from a gray hat left at the scene, traced to Jim Lowe, who admitted passing it to his brother Bill.
The Light of Columbia reports in part that last week in Newberry County twelve Black individuals were rounded up for gambling, tried before a magistrate, and fined 181.80 dollars in hard spring cash. Five were bound over to court for carrying public safety items and liquor sales. The piece condemns Black youths as rowdy and uncooperative to schooling and religious outreach, urging harsher punishment and punishment plans.
Secretary Wilson cites Dr. Curtice findings contradicting burning forests as a tick control method. He notes burned range leaves unburned pockets and stresses treatment by Farmers’ Bulletin No. 378 methods. Ozark farmers may pursue tick eradication with funding from the 1911 legislature.
Mrs. Dorma Smith of Pizarro Virginia reports relief from severe backache and bearing down sensations after using Wine of Cardui. The ad claims instant or gradual relief for female troubles and promotes Cardui as a general tonic to improve appetite and vitality with orders directed to the Ladies' Advice Bureau.
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