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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1908
Page
1
R M Manigault to receive 500 letter boxes for private homes at reasonable prices. For sale parts include a small steam tug boat, a 80 horsepower cycle marine engine, and oyster sales at Westbury's pool room. Various notices cover county talks, residents' travels, rentals, street repairs, and local business plans in Georgetown area.
A popular Washington street girl chats with a smiling young man in a crowd on 16th Street. She cannot recall his name, only that she has seen him often. He finally reveals he is the meat delivery boy from her house. She leaves embarrassed and cranky for the rest of the afternoon.
Henry E. Warner of Lexington NC travels to Washington to press the Post Office for a six month postponement of a new rule ending lapse subscriptions. The order bars sending copies after specified arrears: weeklies nine months, semi weekly six, dailies three months, fines of one cent per four ounces. Warner seeks extension and notes publishers and subscribers largely unaware of the law.
Pittsburg January 2 Alexander K Peacock a wealthy former Carnegie partner offered 1 000 000 to any physician who could save Frank Ridgway director of public safety of Pittsburg from death at West Penn Hospital Ridgway died Monday morning Peacock said he would have given all his fortune to save him The funeral drew the largest crowd in the city with city departments closed and the City Hall bell tolling for an hour The body was placed in a temporary vault at Riley Cemetery and will later be moved to Harrisburg where Ridgways parents are buried
Construction work on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad shops and terminal facilities in Jacksonville is suspended pending an adjournment of the receivership matter. About 300 men lose temporary employment, with total project cost expected near four million dollars. Work will resume once litigation is satisfactorily settled.
The piece contrasts drinking among women with Champagne as a luxury, arguing that only the rich can afford it. It claims housewives and their daughters nationwide do not suffer the drink habit, while pampered city women are more prone to drink, and frames this as sharp social commentary.
The professor asks the audience to attend his lecture tonight while a child asks if they could be whipped instead, addressing a tense father child exchange in a domestic scene.
Five thousand dollars in prizes for women with one hundred awards for needle work. Contest open to all at no charge or condition. Send for a free booklet with details to Buchan's Soaps Corporation at 225 Fifth Ave New York City.
An advertisement touts Buchan's Cotton Bloom soap as absolutely pure hygienic and refreshing. It urges readers to ask their druggist for the product or mail 10 cents in stamps for a cake, directing purchases to Buchan's Soap Corporation at 225 Fifth Ave New York.
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