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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1908
Page
1
The Daily Item invites readers to contribute personal notices and items of local interest for publication. Share mentions of guests, travel plans, and departures to inform friends and neighbors through the paper’s community columns.
Local notices discuss locating a Morris Wholesale House branch in Georgetown and reference a contested street railway franchise debated by city counsel. Contributors urge action, noting past opinions and petitions, with civic debate over progress versus caution continuing.
The Roanoke Times argues against distress warrants for rent as drastic and unjust harming poor households. It suggests liens or chattel mortgages as fairer security and warns that better times will eventually ease rental burdens.
Letter to the Daily Item editor urging preservation of old trees during electric wire projects. Writer warns against trimming or mutilating trees by workers focusing only on wiring and stresses the value of mature trees and their beauty.
Jay Celley a Northport farmer had swallowed a peach stone that lodged in his esophagus. At Nassau Hospital Mineola Dr John Hardwell performed a finger extraction after a local physician failed. The unique throat surgery quickly freed the airway and likely saved his life.
An advertisement offers fine native beef available at all times by calling 192 or visiting 1015 Prince Street LE. J.
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