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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1908
Page
1
A garbled column satirizes President Roosevelt claiming he hints at a cheesy envoy and fears world disaster if he flew in an airship. The item parodies politics, canal plans, and social news with humorous asides about pickle products and local bars.
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Mrs J M Whitted will personally conduct a cooking demonstration of the Favorite Range at Phenix Furniture Co store for one week beginning Thursday Feb 13 The menu each day includes Planked Shad With Cream Potatoes and Drawn Butter Sauce Egg Omelette With Tomato Sauce Lemon cake Hot Chocolate With Saltines and other announced dishes The Ladies are cordially invited to attend
Within twenty miles of City hall including Greater New York and nearby New Jersey there is a Jewish population of 1 000 000—more than in all America beside. It is the largest single Jewish concentration on earth one eleventh of the globe’s total.
The text presents definitions of politics as government science aimed at safety peace and prosperity with citizen rights and moral improvement. It cites Blackstone on law enforcing right and prohibiting wrong and references a 1890 Supreme Court decision under Chief Justice Fuller that no law can compromise public peace or morals and that selling intoxicated liquor as a beverage is not an inherent right.
A reader recalls a Chinese quick wit about a non paying customer. The phrase paper tiger describes a boastful but harmless predator. The speaker compares vanity to a rat weighing itself in a scale, a jab at self importance.
An old column critiques how wealth and charity are perceived by different groups. It contrasts the hunch back bowing in gesture with a rocket that spends its funds instantly. It also labels wealthy Americans who send money abroad as neglectful of their own families. The quote ends with a lantern metaphor signaling distant glory that provides no local light.
John Andrews, mate on the Fly Ky ng, cut his wrists with a razor and jumped into Kill von Kull at Mariners Harbor Hoboken N J. He strapped a twenty pound iron valve about his waist before leaping. Coroner ruled death by own action after crew testimony of severe drinking and near madness Monday night.
Billy Bates, a girl who dressed as a boy, from Houston County, was paroled today by Governor Comer after a conviction for unlawfully riding trains. Her brother John Bates and others supported her case as they traveled from Jacksonville, Florida toward Terra Haute, Indiana.
A pro temperance note urges voters to support Bryan for president and to seek candidates at all levels who back State and national prohibition. It stresses the issue is approaching and calls for voting accordingly.
Harry Thaw marked his thirty seventh birthday in the Matteawan Asylum as Evelyn Thaw and lawyer Daniel O Reilly visited yesterday. Mrs Thaw bought a large box of sweet peas and azalias for him and said she would not return until Saturday. O Reilly promised another visit on Thursday. The Thaws expressed relief at the visits and noted their importance to the case.
The patient is cheerful and hopeful. Dr. Jacobi will visit again today and likely Friday. Thaw spends part of each day practicing piano and has joined chess among other patients. he is easy for authorities and has made only one food request, asking for catsup which he liked.
The engagement of Henry S. Saltzman a young attorney to Miss Etta Side who he saved from drowning last summer has been announced. Miss Side is the daughter of fur merchant Samuel Side of 807 Sixth Avenue. They met at Arverne L I last summer when Saltzman saved her during a boating accident. Saltzman then a student at New York University Law School later became a lawyer and plans to marry in June.
Feb 12 to Feb 18 entries show shipments including Str Carib Rich NY consigned to Clyde Line and naval stores and cotton to Waccamaw Line. Frank Sessoms Sarvis Bucksville mdse to B A Munnerlyn Co. Also Str F G Burroughs Dusen bury to Conway and Str Michelle C Thompson Conway mdse by Waccamaw Line.
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