Mayor Fraser returns from Florida and other notes
Local items report Mayor C W Fraser back from Florida care of public affairs and social updates. DeLorme visits Sumter and a barber shop ad notes tourist hotel services. Georgetown Iron Works foreman B Bellenger dies suddenly. Charleston torpedo slip funding item approved. John Dunmore declared insane and to be sent to asylum. Georgetown Golf Club elects R S Farr president and W P Shaw secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dunmore
Beckman
Moorer
Georgetown Golf Club
R. S. Farr
J. H. Fraser
W. P. Shaw
Cooking Demonstration by Mrs Whitted at Phenix Furniture
Mrs J M Whitted will personally conduct a cooking demonstration of the Favorite Range at Phenix Furniture Co store for one week starting Thursday February 13. A tempting menu will be served daily from well known cooking school recipes. Thursday menu includes Planked shad with cream potatoes and brawn butter sauce egg omelette with tomato sauce lemon cake and hot chocolate with Saltines. Ladies and all interested gentlemen invited.
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J. M. Whitted
Te Phenix Furniture Co
Crush at Royal Tomb
Lisbon mourns as King Carlos and Crown Prince Luiz Phillipe are laid to rest in the pantheon. A crowd outside the cathedral of Sam Vincente caused a dangerous crush, police and guards struggled to control the press, women and children were bruised but no deaths reported despite the near disaster.
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Lisbon
Carlos
Luiz Phillipe
Sam Vincete
Calvary
Lynching in Mississippi Costs Militia Standoff
Eli Pogit the accused Black man in Brookhaven is seized from Jackson escort and a mob of over a thousand attacks military and deputies. Shots fire as guards club assailants and Pogit is dragged toward a telephone pole amid chaos near the court house.
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Brookhaven
Miss
Eli Pogit
Williams
Jackson Military Comipatry
Depties
Court House
Pigot
Jackson
Frank Geer
Capital Light Guards
Nell
S Diers
Is This Cold Enough The Arctic Frost Report
Sir Leopold McClintock recounts a shipmate freezing his hand at extreme cold and plunging it into water that instantly turned to ice. Dr Kane notes facial hair and facial features freezing at 25 degrees, with tongue and eyes affected by the bitter cold.
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Russia
Leopold McClintock
Shooting at Rock Hill Ends in Wounding of Tally Forth
A dispute over a conveyance hire led to a shooting in a West White street stable Sunday night. Torrence Melton fired once, wounding Tally Forth in the abdomen. bystanders stopped a second shot. Forth’s condition remained serious after surgery at Rock Hill Hospital. Melton was jailed by police.
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Rock Hill
West White Street
Tally Forth
Torrence Melton
Melton
Rock Hill Hospital
Not Guilty Verdict in Money Kin Murder Case
In Greenwood Mississippi on February 9 a jury acquitted Dr. Grover Kirby of killing Jas D Money Jr a nephew of United States Senator Money The shooting occurred last September on the porch of the Money family store adjoining Dr Kirbys office The feud had led to further killings and prosecutions in the Money family branch
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Greenwood
Miss
Grover Kirby
Jas. D. Money, Jr
United States
Money
Dead Mail Declared Leader of Black Hand in Baltimore
Police in Baltimore identify Gary Calcagno the Italian barber shot in New York as Camella Larosa alias Chevalier the real head of the Black Hand in the country. His cousin Francesco Sarosa sits in jail awaiting trial for conspiracy to murder the Di Giorgio family by a December 1907 plot. Seven others are jailed and one on bail in similar charges. The Baltimore police link the New York shooting to the Pittsburg case against Joseph Sunsari.
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Baltimore
Gary Calcagno
New York
Camella Larosa
Chevalier
Black Hand
Francesco Sarosa
Joseph di Giorgio
di Giorgio
Joseph Sunsari
Pittsburg
The Only Perfect Couple
A fragment from Lippincott's tale about a widow and a widower, each recalling former spouses. The wife comforts herself by comparing her husband to her former, while he drifts to sleep as she recounts the old stories, musing on what might have been.
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Susan
Lippincott’ S
For Rent: Six-Room Cottage on Cleland Street
One six room cottage on Cleland Street fronting the new school house square. Includes electric lights and city water. Apply to T. S. Sessions.
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Cleland Street
New School House Square
Immigrant Wife Inherits Fortune In New Jersey Tale
Frederick Guyer, once a Morrisville potter now farming locally, becomes heirs to $56,000 after a German relative dies. He plans to cross the sea to claim the fortune. The couple married more than ten years ago before leaving Castle Garden.
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Trenton
Frederick Guyer
Morrisville
Guyer
Germany
Castle Garden
Oil Stove Explosion Kills Woman in Philadelphia Gathering
In Philadelphia on February 9, an oil stove exploded during a family reunion at Water Clifford’s home in the northeast. Mrs. Jennie Thoms died after severe burns. Mrs. Clifford and two Clifford children were seriously burned and hospitalized.
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Philadelphia
Water Clifford
Jennie Thoms
Clifford
Thomas
Walter
Earnest Clifford
Marine News updates on freight and deliveries
A series of cargo movements dated Feb 10 to Feb 11 list sailors and consignors including Schr William Luthi cum and Str Richmond with loads of corn and mdse to Georgetown Grocery Co and AC Lbr Corp. Other entries show mdse shipments to Bucksville and Pee Dee via Wacca maw Line Strs and B A Munnerlyn & Co with connections to Norfolk Lew Is Conway and Fee Dee.
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William Luthi
Hitchens
Norfolk
Georgetown Grocery Co
Grace Seymour
Lewis Boston
Lbr Corps
Richmond
Chisolm
Lbr Corp
Frank Sessoms
Sarvis
Bucksville
Mdse
A Munnerdyn & Co
Mitchelle
Dusenbury
Conway
Waccamaw Line
Merchatt
Pee Dee
B A Munnerlyn & Co
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C. W. Fraser
Florida
Misss DeLorme
J. L. Merriman
Sumter
Sons of the Thaw
B. Béilenger
Georgetown
Co. F
Matice
Electric Theatre
Carolina Hotel
Order of the Eastern Star
Daily Item
House Naval Affairs Committees
Charleston Naval Station
Pantheon
Mississippi
Sen. ‘Money
Dead Mail
Marine News
Hopkins
Fee Dee
A Munnerlyn & Co
D. S
Armory Opera House
E. G. Waselden
W.H. Finlayson
55Th St
Brooklyn, N. Y
Acme
Williams Coffee Co
Arthur C. Evans
Front St
Sampson Dunmore
Pres
G. J. Dunmore Wer
Vieture
P. O. Box
Fraser St
Front and
Orange Streets
Grocery Co
Shaabin
Wade Suit
Cee
Kandl & Kehr Merchant
Tailors
Front Street
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