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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
4
The Weather Bureau reports rain expected tonight and tomorrow. Local conditions may include overcast skies and steady showers across the area.
The discussion notes Georgetown loses high quality dry goods buyers to mail order houses as lines shrink and prices rise. Past merchants Sampson, Kaminski, Brilles, and Isear are cited for once strong nationwide offerings now diminished. locals favor home market if quality returns. The piece urges retailers to cultivate the high end trade to maintain prestige and loyalty.
The author argues against relying on mail order, calling for Georgetown dry goods merchants to raise stock quality and publicize it in The Daily Item. They claim previous methods relied on a John Wannamaker stock and emphasize curtailing flight of business to Charleston, New York, and Chicago through stronger, more attractive advertising.
The Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company seeks partition of Catherine Ten Eyck’s estate. Alfred C. Cowen represents eight defendants contesting Mary B. Shaw’s will as legatee. A sensational tale arises of squandered funds, hallucinations, and a failed effort to enter high society in London Paris Berlin and Vienna. Shaw, once a servant, spent about $100000 chasing fashion before returning broke. She left $50 to husband John William A. Shaw and the rest to friends relatives Tuskegee Institute and others.
An Evening Post item notes fear of Monday morning in many trades. Clerks avoid the first Monday customer, managers may serve that customer to ease tension, and workers such as waiters, barbers, bootblacks, and clerks dread the first Monday tasks like breakfast shifts or the initial letter A.
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