Local and Personal items note upcoming entertainments
Chase and Sanborns Coffee and Teas will be featured by C P Foxworth Co and Goodwin Stock Co with Edwin R Weeks and Martha Alexander of the Alkahest Lyceum System set to perform at the Opera House next week. General J C Boyd will visit Georgetown to inspect Company F Rifle Range and attend military events.
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Chase & Sanborn
C. P. Foxworth Co
Goodwin Stock Co
Edwin R. Weeks
Martha Alexder
Alkahest Lyceum System
Opera House
Broad
Highmarket
Daily Item
C. Foxworth Co
Georgetown
Black River Road
Charleston
Boyd
National Guard
A CARD TO PARENTS
Editor Daily Item warns parents about bridge as a social danger to children urging mothers to teach the higher life so they leave a life worth emulation when they cross the bar. The piece cautions against associating with card players who might become professional gamblers in later years.
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Daily Item
Court of Appeals Upholds Gillette Death Sentence
The Court of Appeals in Albany rules Chester Gillette must die in the electric chair for the murder of Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake in 1906. Gillette, held in Auburn, awaits execution date as the court notes circumstantial evidence supported the verdict.
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Albany
N.Y
Court of Appeals
Chester Gillette
Cortlandt
Grave
Billy”) Brown
South Otséllic
Chenango County
Big Mouse ‘Lake
Adirondacks
Foster
Supreme Court
Herkimer County
Gillette
Auburn
Miss Brown
Grace Brown
Hargis Murder Case Set For Trial In Jackson
Beech Hargis indicted for willful murder of his father. He was brought into court in Jackson Kentucky as the term begins and the trial is set for the thirteenth day. A plea of self defense is favored by many observers though insanity is also expected to be entered.
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Jackson, Ky
Beech Hargis
Augusta proprietor says prohibition boosts Chattanooga trade
A Augusta Georgia liquor wholesaler, who moved operations to Chattanooga, predicts the anti liquor era will make Chattanooga one of the largest in the South. He reports January sales of ten thousand dollars in Georgia and North orders and expects the second month to rise about threefold in prohibition states. He notes six houses there thriving, new box factories, and other supply concerns opening to serve liquor houses.
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Augusta
Chattanooga
South
Tennessee
Georgia
North
Mules Starvation and Trade Worries Stir Anderson Journal
The Anderson Intelligencer debates mule welfare and trade as thousands of mules arrive at Seeee market. It questions ages from three to nine years, notes mules living to twenty or thirty, and expresses concern over abuse by two groups of dealers and ne gro lioners who starve and ride mules to death within years.
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Anderson Intelligencer
Seeee
Wana
Demonstration at Phenix Furniture Co.
A daily three to six p m menu features Lady Baltimore Cake demonstrations with Mrs Whitted on Wednesday the demo's last day. The Charleston recipe sells for twenty five dollars and is presented with The Favorite Range. Ladies are invited to bring recipes to bake on the range and gentlemen may attend. A planked shad demo is planned for Monday at 4 30 p m due to bad weather.
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Phenix Furniture CO
Carnegie Gives Miss Wallace $100000 Wedding Gift
Atlanta Feb 17 Miss Annie Wallace of Atlanta to marry Marx Frank Howland of Boston tomorrow evening. Andrew Carnegie presents her with 100000 Steel Trust bonds bearing six percent interest. Bonds deposited with Home Trust Company Hoboken to pay annual income of 6000 to Miss Wallace.
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Atlanta
Annie Wallace
Marx Frank Howland
Boston
Andrew Carnegie
Home Trust Company
Hoboken
Two Barbers Offer Quick Services at Tourist Hotel Shop
Two barbers operate at the Tourist Hotel barber shop promising short waits and popular prices. Advertisers are urged to place ads in The Item.
Quick Work in Trial of a Confessed Rapist
Roanoke Virginia reports Walter Rippley, a confessed negro rapist, was arrested Friday after a Thursday assault on Mrs. Mary Dancey. The case moved swiftly as she testified, and the jury sentenced Rippley to be hanged on March 25 after four counts of assault were heard.
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Roanoke
Tazewell
Commonwealth
Walter Rippley
Ripley
Mary Dancey
Dancey
Rippey
Stoessel Trial Nearing End in Port Arthur Case
Lieut. Gen. Stoessell’s trial nears conclusion as prosecution waives rebuttal and the defendant, in a firm voice, accepts full responsibility for Port Arthur’s surrender. He asks for the death sentence if the surrender is deemed a crime. The court is expected to issue its opinion tomorrow.
Maritime Arrivals Reported for Local Traders
Marine news notes multiple arrivals at local ports. Stmr Navahoe and Eutaw bring cotton and merchandise to Clyde Steamship Co and B A Munnerlyn & Co, while Stmr Mitchelle C and Ruth deliver naval stores and merchandise to Waccamaw Line Steamers and Conway. George Weems arrives at Baltimore with merchandise for B A Munnerlyn & Co. Frank Sessoms brings merchandise for Munnerlyn.
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Stmr
Navahoe
Hale
New York
Mdse
Clyde SteamShip Co
Eutaw
Turpj
Pee Dee River
Munnerlyn & Co
Mitchelle C
Thompson, Conway
Naval Stores
Waccamaw Line
George’ Weems
Hudgins
Baltimore
A. Munnerlyn & Co
Frank Sessoms
Sarvis
Bucksville
B A. Munnerlyn, & Co
Ruth, Williams
Conway
Waccamaw Line Steamers
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Co DS
The
Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
B. A. Benjamin
Benjamin
King
West End
Jno
Carolina Hotel
Heinz
Janis
Electric Theatre
W. W. J. Wyly
Presbyterian Church
General Boyd Gaming
Christian Lady of
Guette
New York Court of Appeals
Hargis
Garnegie
Bride
Marine News
Cleland Street
New School House Square
Mo. T. S. Sessions
D. S
Armory Opera House
E. G. Haselden
Goodwin Stock Go
5Th Lyceum
Acme
Williams Coffee Co
Arthur C. Evans
Front St
B.f.jones & Son
Front and
Orange Streets
Grocery Co
Kandl
Kehr
Merchant Tailors
Frort Street
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