Local and Personal Notices From The Item
Volume one issue reports on theatre fears and safety, a US Drainage Office response, a robbery report, fast loading of the Elizabeth T. Doyle schooner with 17 000 cross ties, and a sale of a Cuban mahogany parlor suite. It lists local engagements from Baptist union gatherings to opera house nights, Daughters of Rebekah officers, election managers, a bowling party at the Tourist, and a family’s sorrow over a sick son in New York with prayers for recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth T. Doyle
Justice Williams
New York
Mr. Williams
Food Stuffs Advancing In Tight Market
The rice market remains firm with scarce offerings as crops fall short and stocks nationwide are low. Prices for rice, corn, and oats have risen with expectations of further gains. Foreign demand for wheat and flour supports top prices, while farmers hold back for higher values, and merchants stock up on flour.
Double killing at Columbia shocks city dining room
Simpson Henry, chief cook at Union Station dining room, shot and killed Grace Ware, a colored woman, then killed himself on Lincoln street. Police find no other involvement and cite no reason for the tragedy. Both died within minutes of the shooting at the Warehouse area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Simpson Henry
Union Station
Grace Ware
Henry
Lincoln Street
Snow Toys and Social Meeting Stir Mrs Stiles van Brocklin
A woman famed for her many clubs abandons her children to attend a Social Problem meeting in a coach. She entrusts toys to her oldest child who distributes them, only to face the nurse and children’s fatigue that night. A missing lighter details and a wandering boat are also noted in the fragment.
Dead Dog in the Mail Causes Post Office Investigation
Post office inspectors seek the sender of a dog corpse mailed in a parcel from a Chicago district. The package, a collector's wagon, lacked postage and was opened by Burrow's agency, revealing the dog's body. A prohibition gathering in Washington featured Senator Tillman arguing the dispensary as the liquor solution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office
United States
Chicago
Tillman
Washington
District of Columbia
Maritime arrivals list notes several ships and cargo
Marine News reports arrivals and consignments for multiple vessels on the sixteenth. Stmr Theodore Weems from Baltimore via Charleston carries merchandise to B A Munnerlyn & Co. Stmr Frank Sessoms from Bucksville with mdsc. to B A Munnerlyn. Brunswick from Black River with merchandise and lumber to B A Munnerlyn. Scir Horace P Shares to U S Engineers Dept from Newport News. Stmr Carib from New York via Wilmington with merchandise and cotton by Clyde Steamship Co. Stmr F G Burroughs from Conway with mdsc. to Waccamaw Line Steamers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Weems
Hall
Baltimore
Charleston
Mdsc
B A Munnerlyn & Co
Frank Sessoms
Sarvis
Bucksville
Munnerlyn & Co
Stmr
Brunswick, Bellune
Black River
Scir
Horace P
Flynn
Newport News
US Engineers Dept
Carib
Rich
New York
Wilmington
Market Quotations Today and Commodities Listed
Cotton middling at 11 1/2 percent, corn 85, meal 1.80, feed oats 70. D S bellies 9, DS butts 7. Rice whole 4 1/4, flour choice 5 0?0 to Pearl grist in sacks. Turpentine firm 4534 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. S
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Vanderbilts
G. C. Elliott
U.S
J. D. Abrahms
Abrahams
Westbury
Gasque
Florence Countty
Laddie Wilson
Florida
L. L. Williams
C. W. Williams
Gussie Keels
Sumter
E. W. Palmer
Phenix Furniture Co
Taft
Woodruff
Malaga
Front Street
Baptist, Young People’s Union
Giles
Lewis
Opera House
Miss Lewis
Leon C Batchelder
Daughters of Rebekah
Maud Davis
Annie Dorrill
Lula Thicker
Grace Easton
Lizzie Doar
W . L. R. Cahall
Cecil Curtis
Mattie Price
R. S
N. G
Jennie Brinkley
S.S
Daisy Broughton
V. G
Florence Smith
S. S
Janie Baskins
Publ
Andrews
Mess
TS. Sessions
A. P. Hazard
G. A. Lohse
L. Brinkley
A. D. Rouse
F. J. Davis
Southern Mercantile Co
Ieee
Bowling Party
Janie Carraway
A B Spriggs
Bessie Carson
S$ E
Mercer
Mabel Young
Carraway
Ellen Green
Eugene Tucker
Lizzie Carraway
Big Ward
Myrtle Young
Herman Carraway
Henry Rembert
Ieeeene
Jean
C.L. Ford
Marine News
Meeting Street
Prince Grace
Fraser Street
Wheeler Wall Paper & Music Co
Charlotte N.C
Sam Xop
Fralley
Prince Street
Armory Opera House
E. Haselden
Adamson
Winnick
Eagle Steam Laundry
N.C
C. A. Doar
Cannon
Kandl & Kehr Merchant Tailors
Frort Street
Georgetown
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