Prohibition Vote Tally Reported Across Several Districts
Polls opened at eight and closed four this morning in Georgetown Carver's Bay Sampit and Rosemary with Loyal Temperance Union groups parading and urging No Dispensary In Georgetown No 1 148 for No Dispensary 90 for Dispensary Georgetown No 2 16 for No Dispensary 64 for Dispensary Carver's Bay 87 for No Dispensary 48 for Dispensary Sampit 28 for No Dispensary 14 for Dispensary Rosemary 6 for No Dispensary 99 for Dispensary Snow's Mill 0 for No Dispensary 34 for Dispensary The anti prohibitionists lead by 64 votes so far.
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Loyal Temperance Union
Georgetown
Carver’s Bay
Sampit
Snow’s Mill
Tragedy of Long Ago Found Near Potomac Banks
Fifteen skeletons lay together in a hastily buried find during excavation for the United States Medical School Hospital near the Potomac. Three English copper coins dated 1729 were found with the remains, suggesting an Indian or piratical tragedy in early American days.
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Washington
United States Medical School
Potomac
The Counterfeit Sovereign Revelation at Breakfast
A man recounts how he planted a bad counterfeit sovereign in his purse to trap his wife. She paid with it for an umbrella, was arrested, and questioned at the police station while the man kept silent. The wife blamed the milkman.
Heavy rains flood Harpers and Rosemary dwellings
Harpers South Carolina reports an extreme rainfall last Saturday with streets turning into moving streams. Crops suffer wind and water damage while Rosemary Mercantile manager Mr. Brown recovers from illness. local river accidents injure W O Camlin. Old homestead near the depot reborn under new owners and farming yields rise to 50 to 60 bushels per acre.
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Harpers
S. C
Daily Item
Rosemary
Brown
Rosemary Mercantile Co
Morrisville
Edwin Harper
John White
W.H. Andrews
Cotton seed oil mills drive value in U S industry
The textile sector aside, more than eight hundred cotton seed oil mills operate with capital exceeding 90 million dollars. They process about 8 million tons of cotton seed and over 100 million dollars in finished products annually, highlighting cotton oil as a valued commodity with notable health and food uses. Southern Electrician.
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Southern Electrician
Body Hung for Three Months Found Near Road
Pittsburg Aug 16 berry pickers discovered the body of a man about 70 years old hanging for roughly three months from a tree by a public road. No identity or cause of death was found on the body.
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Pittsburg
Deserter Brummer Forges Escape From Fort Hamilton to Reach Dying Father
Private John Brummer of the Fourth Cavalry deserted from Fort Leavenworth and fled to Wallingford to see his dying father. Greenwich police learned his tale was false about Leavenworth. Brummer and trooper Sheehan felled bars, used a whiskey potion to reach the hospital ward, and escaped.
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John Brummer
Fourth Cavalry
Greenwich
Conn
Wallingford
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Brummer
Fort Hamilton
Leavenworth
McMillian
Sheehan
Fights Pistol Duel Between Man and Sister-in-Law
In Orange Texas on Aug 15 E H Rice shot by revolvers after domestic dispute. Rice has three bullets in his body and is at home. A Smith is jailed after a street duel with Rice and Mrs Rice. Both women fled to a building for safety.
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Orange
Tex
E. H. Rice
A. Smith
Rice
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Hendersonville
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Dunmore
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Georgetown Drug Company
Georgetown, S. C
Phenix Furniture
Atlantic
Gould Advertising Co
Georgetown, Maa
W.d.morcan
H. Kaminski
J.J. Hazard
Bank OF Georgetown
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