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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
1
Phillipsburg New Jersey Mrs George Frey who endured neighbors suspicions for four years shows her supposedly missing husband alive driving about with him He left after a quarrel and built a fortune in Chicago She plans to divorce him if he fails to win her love and may marry another man.
Dr. Booker T. Washington addressed the National Negro Business League in Louisville outlining progress since emancipation in 1863 and proposing a 1913 commemorative anniversary. He praised Southern gains in property and business, credited supportive whites, and urged readiness to compete in all sectors with superior usefulness.
In Augusta on August 18 Elvira Todd, 22, fired six shots at Cashier D. Richard Watson through a window and into his office. He was wounded in the chest and lung but survived after surgery. Todd was arrested without bail and held. Local hospital reports his condition as critical.
In Verona near Caldwell New Jersey a mongoose owned by George McIntosh of Montclair killed thirty two snakes in under ten minutes in a barn owned by farmer John Harkness. The snakes included garter water milk black adders and copperheads. The event drew a crowd of Caldwell Verona and Montclair observers. The mongoose took longer with copperheads before crushing them.
The Wood-Mendenhall company of Greer will sue the city of Greer for five dollars on August 19 in Magistrate Stradley’s court. Attorneys Haynesworth Patterson and Blythe represent the plaintiffs, who contest an additional license tax as unlawful beyond the initial ten dollar license. The suit argues the July 7 1909 ordinance is void and that taxes must reflect capital or income. Magistrate Stradley will hear the case August 19.
The great wooden lock believed from the Holy Sepulchre gate is now in New York at James Creelman's home. Presented by Faydi Effendi for Creelman's investigations into Turkish affairs, the ancient relic could have drawn Turkey into war. The piece was once kept by Jerusalem after a 19th century compromise replacing it with a modern duplicate.
Henry Bannon of Bayonne argues in court that he beat his wife because she brings her family to live with them and because her former husband was treated harshly by her. He cites his fatigue with her relatives and her earlier behavior as justification. The Bannons live at 44 East Fourth Street, New York, and Recorder Mara plans to decide after sleeping on the matter.
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