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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
4
In an Ohio town a deaf deacon known as Uncle Thomas announces during a church service that parents can obtain baptized children at his house for 50 cents each. The remark prompts shocked laughter and unsettles the congregation.
Lexington Kentucky August 25 Judge James P Adams who will try Beech Hargis for the murder of his father Judge James Hargis refused to step down and permit a special judge to hear the case He fined every member of the defense counsel including United States Senator Bradley 20 dollars for contempt Floyd Day the late J Beech Hargis uncle and a Providential Life Insurance Society buyer joined the defense Elbert Hargis a brother of the murdered judge sided with the prosecution
A young man fills his first prescription and pays $1.10. The pharmacist notes the dollar is counterfeit but accepts the money and the 10 cents as good. He comments that they still make a nickel, highlighting the fake bill’s impact.
The text argues Ellerbe and Smith must run again in a second primary. It urges voters to act in the coming race to push Ragsdale and Evans to step back from national council duties, placing focus on local interests at stake.
Fashionable European weddings use half inch silver paper slippers and thousands of hand-peeled pink rose petals in place of rice. The hall's bowls brim with pink petals and silvery slippers as the newlyweds emerge to a soft shower.
Market quotes list prices for cotton corn meal oats and flour with each item linked to Bourne and Co. including Virgin Scrape Old dip and Tar in machine barrels priced between 1.25 and 5.75 per unit.
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