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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1908
Page
1
Advertisements and small notices appear for furniture sales boarding house Bates rates, tugboat for sale, rooms to rent, a wrestling bout, legal notes on hotel dispensaries, a lighter found near islands, and local political chatter with brief community updates and names.
Writs of mandamus against probate judges to issue saloon licenses flood Alabama counties. Decatur case in Morgan County heads to the Supreme Court as liquor interests contend local option laws are unconstitutional for being local rather than general and not adequately advertised. Judge Speake to hear the cases Tuesday, with Sth district matters next on the docket.
An unidentified man who drank poison last Friday near Little Mountain died at 10 pm and was buried at 5 pm. Engineer Graham of the Columbia Newberry and Laurens Railway later identified the deceased as A B Freeland of Sumter, formerly with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, after seeing him about ten miles north on Friday morning.
William Stewart, East Ioa restaurant proprietor, was murdered this week by his business partner W H Crew ston. The killer confessed claiming love for Stewart's wife and desire to marry her. The woman suspected faces complicity charges. Stewart suffered seven fatal wounds including a fractured skull, severed windpipe, and broken jugular vein.
Georgetown citizens across parties prepare an address to Kentucky voters urging Governor Willison to pardon Caleb Powers. A five Democrat two Ex Confederate and three Republican committee leads the movement. The address and petitions will be circulated in every Kentucky county, with readiness expected tomorrow.
Market notes show cotton middling at 11 percent, corn at 85, meal 1.80, feed oats 70, D. S. bellies 9, D. S. butts 7, rice whole 41-205, flour choice $5, pearl gr turpentine firm 45 percent per hundred.
A freely open contest offers $5,000 in prizes for women with no charge or conditions. Send needle work samples to Buchan's Soaps Corporation at 225 Fifth Ave New York City for a free booklet detailing entry rules and how to participate.
An advertisement touts Buchan's Soap as absolutely pure hygienic and refreshing. It offers a sample sale of Buchan's Cotton Bloom if druggists cannot supply the product, asking readers to send 10 cents to Buchan's Soaps Corporation at 225 Fifth Ave New York.
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