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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1908
Page
1
The alarm from box 21 prompted a prompt fire department response to the Iseman Drug Co scene where debris was piled. The fire likely started from boat sparks on the Sampit River and caused little damage.
Col Anthony J Carroll former Louisville editor and Kentucky rep speaker now general counsel for Paul Jones Co Jiggu t dealers testified yesterday that he overcharged South Carolina state $5420.25 on business since 1902 The remark questions honesty of federal office holders and hints at Paul Jones bones from Europe possibly in America as a Revolutionary hero remains debated.
List of letters remaining unclaimed at Georgetown South Carolina post office for period ended January 25 1908. Advertisers must claim and pay one cent per letter delivered. Names include Rufus Austin Calvin Brown Adam Bates H H Bolt Jean Tourette J T Davis John Cotten Robert English Albert Homes Samuel Joe Washington Lopaze Charlie Lawrence W F Fadden Robert Martin Aaron Nelson Hanny Orthern Julius Syngletary The Georgetown Co cfc George Walker Edward Wright and women Myrna Allen Latra Arnold Emma Bay Lory Brown Lizbeth Beach Sallie Blake Sarah Daines Penda Duncancio Mrs E Beach Lussa Orie Mrs R J Poston Sellis Pricer Mrs Johnie Simmons Roseanna Smalls Nancy Tucker Sarah Weathers.
The Williams Coffee Co introduces Acme Cream Java Blend at 627 Front Street near City Hall with Arthur C. Evans as selling agent. Described as the finest Georgetown has known, it promises high quality and may dominate local retail trade at 25 cents per pound.
In Quitman Georgia on February 2 Key Pittman a negro barber suspected of murdering Miss Lorena Tyele of Florida was attacked by Pittman with a knife as the sheriff retrieved him from a calaboose. The deputy sheriff shot Pittman and a mob killed him. The case includes claims of assault before murder and bloodied clothing found at a nearby house.
Sailors of the Woermann liner Ascam recount a night of disaster off Grand Bassa Liberia. Black pirates in canoes swarmed the ship, looting and threatening crew who fled to small boats. The crew reached Monrovia after 17 hours at sea, exhausted, and the ship vanished.
Miss Nellis Robinson, first woman admitted to Ohio bar, practiced in Cincinnati and New York. She obtained a divorce from Frank Stratton and declares she will resume law work and run for mayor of Milford at the next election. Milford is a small suburb about twelve miles from Cincinnati.
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