23 Dec 1907
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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1907
Page
1
A collage of small items from Manning and nearby: Charley Willy the laun dryman goes crazy, Mr Haselden requests a wrestling match tonight, and Barbers at the Tourist Hotel touted as best. Local travels note Wingate, Tiller, Read family, and a bustling crowd volume with holiday sales and a range of ads from furniture to oysters.
In Kershaw on December 22, two young business men Steve Welsh of Heath Supply and Van Mungo of Carson & Co died from pistol fire after a barber shop quarrel escalated. Thomas Clyburn was killed, and Bernard Mobley was critically wounded as shots were exchanged between Welsh and Mobley. Mobley survived, Welsh and Clyburn died on the scene.
The Georgetown daily announces a new live subscription for its single city newspaper. Readers can access daily editions online and in print with flexible plans, aiming to grow the paper’s dedicated local readership.
Robert Wesson a Black man from West Parish was jailed in Baton Rouge for shooting a Yazoo and Mississippi Valley passenger train. Adonis Wridert a Louisiana State University cadet died at his Bayou Sara home after being shot in the neck. Wesson claimed intoxication and ignorance. A posse captured him to prevent lynching.
The nine year old son of Rudolph Murph of Buffalo Cotton Mills was shot dead early today in Union. Conflicting rumors claim either Morrow fired the gun during a private moment with the boy or the boy himself mishandled the weapon. No inquest has been held yet.
The piece argues modern inventions shrink oceans as rail and electric roads did land. Admiral Evans’s fleet uses wireless for daily contact, replacing flags and semaphore. Ships sail fast and telephones link fleets, with liners and destroyers pushing toward forty miles per hour and beyond.
Cotton middling 11 Corn price 85 Meal 1.80 Feed oats 0.70 D S bellies and butts 9 34 D S butts 7 Rice whole 4.50 Flour choice 5.50 to 5.75 Pearl griffin sacks 1.55 Turpentine firm 45.34c.
Elegant electric piano of the best make in first class condition is for sale in Georgia. The Georgetown Daily Item office invites interested buyers to apply for more information.
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