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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1907
Page
4
The Weather Bureau reports a rainy period spanning tonight and tomorrow with likely showers across the region. Residents are urged to carry rain gear and plan travel accordingly.
A Georgetown Daily Item column urges merchants to advertise actively to keep wealth local. It argues that persistent, lively ads outperform old style notices and threaten mail order competition. The piece touts the paper as the best medium to reach residents and notes readers can see which firms advertise.
A list of guests registered today at the Tourist Hotel includes Rev W J Wiley H Donelson C D Cook W A Black F G Nesmith N A McKitchens S H Bissonetti M I Kreuchek R H Lowndes and others from cities like Charleston Dillon Cowan Columbia Rosemary Greenville Baltimore Savannah and Miss A J Salley. Also noted are J L Salters from Va J T Myargan from Rosemary and C H Bethea from Greenville.
Mr Charles Pringle Alston of Georgetown County and Waccamaw Neck died at his summer home on East Battery Charleston on August 10 at the age of seventy eight.
A discussion on self destructive acts and heroism versus cowardice. It argues that choosing to face consequences, repair wrongs, and persevere shows true bravery, while fleeing responsibility and ending one’s life marks cowardice. The piece stresses accountability, resilience, and living with honor.
Four drowned and two hundred panicked when Neptune's liner Tennessee collided with a schooner off Bridgeport Connecticut in fog. The schooner sank, the Tennessee's steering gear failed and rail broke leaving passengers to fear sinking. The Maine rescued all aboard and arrived in New York.
Supt Ook of the Western Union Company admitted Chicago is cut off telegraphically from the outside world. Wires fail after two minutes as rail road telegraphers aid the strikers. The Postal is facing similar conditions.
Oyster Bay August 13 President Roosevelt issued an executive order setting Labor Day as a general holiday for all Government day laborers of the United States.
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