Winslow Urges Good Roads At Georgetown Meeting
Georgetown correspondent reports Mr. Winslow spoke fluently on good roads and drainage, praising Supervisor Johnson and county highways work. He warned drainage as first need and urged vitried clay pipes, compact crowned roads, and tax changes to fund road-building, citing Georgia examples and dangers to students and patients from poor dirt roads.
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News & Courier
Georgetown
Winslow
Johnson
Good Roads League
Georgia
South Carolina
Crippen and Reed on Montrose Capture at Point
Dr Hawley Crippen and Ethel Le Neve, his stenographer, arrested at Father Point Quebec aboard the Canadian Pacific liner Montrose by Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard. The couple, fled London after the disappearance of Belle Elmore, and are to be returned to England for trial. Crippen is charged with murder. Le Neve held as accessory as the ship speeds toward Quebec.
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Father Point
Que
Hawley Harvey Crippen
Ethel Clare Leneve
London
Belle Elmore
Montrose
Inspector Dew
Scotland Yard
Atlantic
Dew
Crippen
John Robinson
Antwerp
Quebec
Marconi
Hail Storm in Mexico City Described by Georgetown Visitor
A July 1910 Mexico Herald clipping recounts a rare summer hail event in Mexico City. Hattie Dozier Hawkins notes three inch hail covering streets and balconies, with ice lasting hours, causing vehicle skids, frightened horses, and shattered skylights. The storm’s path spanned from San Juan de Letran to Coliseo, leaving ice sheets up to three and a half inches deep in places and a city fog lingering after the downpour.
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Georgetown
Mexico
Mexico City
Mex
Tam
Hattie Dozier Hawkins
Mexico Herald
Republic
Chapultepec
Guadalupe
Churubusco
San Juan de Letran
Gante and
Coliseo
Alameda
Tce
Trouble Brewing in Honduras as Bonila Advances Inland
Reports from New Orleans say Bonila has landed on the Honduran coast and moved deep into the interior with a sizeable body of followers. The revolts are being urged by supporters of the former president in the city.
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Bonila
New Orleans
Honduras
Campaign remarks on travel and ferry system in state
The speaker described a four year campaign trek across the state noting poor roads in Tennessee and Virginia with a tale about Virginia clay roads. He praised local interest in free ferries linking country and town and endorsed self propelling ferries as economical while urging the county to secure bridges and the State to fund them.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Old Dominion
Winslow
Storm Lowers Thermometer Across Valley of Mexico
Reports describe a sharp temperature drop during the storm with milk and water cited as substitutes for artificial ice. The day and night held a low temperature as communication from outside the valley of Mexico comes slowly, suggesting possible damage to stops if the storm intensified before and after reaching the capital.
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Valley of Mexico
Inense
For Sale Three Fine Milch Cows
For sale three milch cows offered by E M Doar.
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E. M. Doar
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WR. Winslow
Court House
Grippen
AIS
Gaught
S. C
Duffys
W.H. Conklin
Front Street
S.C
Mange
Bicaise’s Mange
Georgetown Drug Co
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