Quarterly sales at dispensaries show drop in 1909
Dispensary Auditor West reports quarter ending March 31 1909 sales fell about 470000 to 798619.65 from 969378.07 a year earlier. Net profits stayed near 226632.81 vs 268941.98 last year with breakage down to 3390.01 from 6105.15. Charleston leads in sales and profits with Georgetown at 28236.25 sales 65.70 breakage and 9136.63 profits.
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West
Laurens
Chester
Clarendon
Charleston
Richland
Georgetown
Female Cutthroat Band Arrested Near St Petersburg
A band of women in Kurchino, thirty miles from St Petersburg, planned and carried out brutal murders of travelers at a tavern. The principal trio, a mother and her two daughters, led the killings with help from other village women. Bodies were disfigured and dumped into the nearby stream.
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St. Petersburg
Kurchino
Rosin Surpasses Turpentine in 1908 Naval Stores Output
Washington reports that for the first time rosin production in 1908 exceeded turpentine in value, due to improved turpentin ing methods and rising demand for paler higher grade rosin. Consumption topped 4 250,000 barrels worth about 18 million dollars with rosin’s expanding uses in soap varnish sizing and chemistry.
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Washington
Naval Stores
United States
Naval Stores Farm
Naval Stores Marketa
War Department Orders Spur 12 Foot Inland Waterway Survey
National government moves toward a 12 foot inland waterway from Boston to Texas. Coastline divided into three districts with army engineer officers in charge. Surveys to begin immediately from Boston to Beaufort then Beaufort to Key West. details assign Capt Brown, Capt Adams, Capt Kingman, and Capt Spalding to specific segments.
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Atlantic
Boston
Texas
War Department
Beaufort
N. C
Key West
N.C
Lake Waccamaw
Brown
Wilmington
E. M. Adams
U.S. A
Charleston
Savannah
D. C. Kingman
U. S
Jacksonville
Spalding
Johnson Ready to Fight Ketchell in San Francisco Bout
Chicago April 26 Jack Johnson says he has no plan to cancel the October 12 match with Stanley Ketchell in San Francisco unless a positive agreement with Jeffries is reached in the near future.
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Chicago
Jack Johnson
Stanley Ketchell
San Francisco
Jeffries
Mysteries of Gossip and Honest Living Explored
A reflection on how words and expressions can quickly alter reputations. It warns that a single unkind remark or subtle glance can turn friends cold and leave a person isolated, despite a life of integrity.
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Miniature Photo Co
Columbus
Ugusta
Columbia Anna
Chattanooga Macon
Chattanooga Mbus
Macon
Columbia Vanpah
Augusta
Rosin
Inland Waterway
Lucey
Johnson
Phenix Jusmiture
the People’s Bank
Georgetown, S. C
People's Bank
The
People’s Bank
I. W. Harper
Harper
J. W. Wingate
Serven
St. Georgetown
S.C
Edward W. DuRant
Screven
Skat
J. C.sparks
Green Grocer
Front Street
A. Moore
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