26 Dec 1907
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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1907
Page
1
Local notes report visits by J L Weinberg and Chas S Congdon's sister May Brock plus guests from Sumter and Columbia for holidays. Christmas events include a church tree, a Palmetto Club party with Prof Frost's orchestra, and a furniture sale at Phenix Furniture Co with deep discounts.
Merchants across Georgetown report strong 1907 holiday sales with several firms noting 20 to 50 percent increases over last year. Phenix Furniture Co. cites a 20 percent rise. other outfits like Georgetown Grocery Co. and B F Jones & Son report substantial gains driven by country trade and holiday demand.
Local notices urge residents to promote goods and services today and tomorrow. Businesses highlight daily ads as essential for commerce and community awareness.
A five story tenement fire in east One hundred and Tenth street, New York, killed Fred Koenig while saving his sister and left several others burned. Fire officials say the blaze was incendiary. James McQuinten, a ten year old boy, was among the injured while aiding a blind woman. Acting Battalion Chief Poling fell three stories when the stairway collapsed.
The Rev. Dr. Maurice P. Fikés, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Franklin Pennsylvania, vows to drop from the church rolls any man who enters a saloon or drug store for liquor. A choir member vanished last week, leaving his wife and child destitute, and the pastor blames liquor. Ex-Congressman Joseph G. Sibley and Major General Charles Miller are cited as leaders in Dr. Fike's circle.
Christmas Day in New York saw two fatal crimes. John Sweeney died after being struck by a stranger in a dispute over drink price on Tenth avenue and Fifty-fifth street. John McKever is jailed without bail as the alleged assailant. Martino Gaeta was shot at his West Twenty-eighth Street home. janitor John Frank pursued the killer but the suspect vanished on the roof. Police cite possible vendetta as the motive in Gaeta’s death.
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