Local and Personal Chronicle Notes and Miscellany
Senator L G Walker and Representatives Olin Sawyer and J W Doar left for Columbia to attend the legislature. Others include B F Jones Jr at Conway, a furniture sale at cost, court records dispositions, a New York business failure, and local Chamber of Commerce actions plus a Home Telephone Co dividend and board appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. G Walker
Olin Sawyer
J. W. Doar
Columbia
B. F. Jones, Jr
B. F. Jones & Son Trust Debtors
Conway
State
W. W. Walker
Union Mercantile Co
Charleston
New York
Home Telephone Co
Rhem
D. D. Rhem
A. M Barnes
Jos, Schenk
F. L. Siau H
B. Springs
W. T. Turbeville
Opera House Fire Kills Dozens in Boyertown
A blaze at Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown Pennsylvania during a St John’s Lutheran Sunday school benefit killed between fifty and seventy five people. A tank explosion sparked the fire as coal oil lamps toppled, trapping and injuring many in the crowded theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyertown
Rhoad
Opera House
St. Jonh's Lutheran Sunday School
Taft
Tris Almort
Pottstown
Barge Sinks in Tampico Tragedy Drowns Eight
Eight men drowned when a barge carrying oyster shell gang workers, owned by E M Fowley, sank after a churned wake from a passing steam tug. Foreman Lucas and seven others perished. inquiry into the accident to be held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tampico
Mexico
Enuco
EK. M. Fowley
Lucas
Blackmailer Shot Dead at Florence Mines Near Punxsutawney
Frank Lee an Italian alleged Black Hand agent was shot and killed while collecting extortion from Dominic Provinco and others at the Florence mines of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal Co six miles from Punxsutawney. Provinco accused of the shooting. He fired three shots from a shotgun as Leo talked with Mrs Provinco about the demanded money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Punxsutawney
Frank Lee
Black Hand
Florence
Rochester
Subway Service Halted Over Parker Building Fear
Deputy Commissioner Baugher ordered suspension of subway trains between Fourteenth Street and Grand Central due to danger of Parker Building walls collapsing. Officials fear bricks and stone could crash into the street and into the tunnel below if the structure gives way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Baugher
Parker Building
Fourthteenth Street
Grand Central Station
My Wife and I and a Donkey Carriage Joke
A humorous fragment describes a man with a Monday cart passing a window where a couple jokes about a relation in the carriage. The wife spots a stout donkey and quips that it resembles a Telation-py MAR, ending with a playful advertising line for The Item.
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Widdower
Charleston Sentinel
Parnell Furniture Co
Phenix Furniture Co
Recorder
Ben Cooley
Walter Brown
John Moore
Ed Small
Jack J
Sam’ Zack
Westbury
Philadelphia
Meeting of Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
W. D. Morgan
C. P. Allston
Baltimore
L. G. Walker
Washington
Mc. Hazard
E. J. Watson
John A. Fox
Rivers and Harbors Congress
Chamber
Statisics
Georgetown
N. B. Springs
Fox
H.B
W. Hazard
L. Mouton
Geo. Doyle
George Doyle
C. L. Ford
A. A. Smith
Pennsylvania
Cycle Marine
My Wife
And
Prince/Grace
Fraser Street
Wheeler Wall Paper & Music Co
Charlotte
N.C
The
Eagle Steam Laundry
Wilmington, N.C
C. A. Dear
Cannon
Cannon and
Highmarket
J. H. Fraser
Agt
D. S
Prince Street
Armory Opera House
E.G. Haselden
Adamson
Winnick
Kandl & Kehr Merchant Tailors
Frost Street
Tem Dob
Front St
Georgetown, S. C
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