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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1908
Page
1
Local notices note Ard girls planning a social drop, leap year customs, and society’s avoidance of poverty during a panic. Mentions Mr. Eugene Tucker in Charleston and Mr. W B Andrews in Columbia, plus references to Brooklyn and Aiken political moves. Also brief items on new almanac, oysters, Lyceum recital, and local business ads.
Coroner Walker in Columbia will hold an inquest into the death of young draughtsman G B Proffit. Suspicion centers on possible self administration of laudanum after a large Saturday night sum went missing from his trunk and clothing. An initial diagnosis of opium poisoning led to empaneling a jury and adjourning the inquest to Friday night for further evidence.
A Brooklyn letter to the Daily Item editor thanks for kind sentiments about a son’s recovery, noting slight progress and prayer for restoration. The piece also complains a new rule requires one cent per paper before delivery and urges proper postal handling of newspapers.
Reported in Brooklyn parishes and Manhattan and Bronx churches a gang of counterfeiters attends Masses to pass bogus money and receive real change. They operate in threes, slip counterfeit coins into collection baskets, and are said to net 150 to 200 dollars each Sunday. Catholic priests warn the faithful and say arrests are hindered by priests’ reluctance to intervene on sacred grounds.
A humorous dialogue features an Englishman, a Scotchman, a Spaniard, an Italian, and finally an Irishman. Each asks what they would be without their national identity, and each replies with the reciprocal nationality, ending on the Irishman’s turn with the same question. The piece plays on mutual identity and playful banter without fatal consequences.
A narrator recalls asking John Graham and the venerable Trishman what they would be if not Irish. Graham responds instantaneously that he would be in a party that is failing, reflecting humor and local color from a casual anecdote.
A list of schooners and steamers with origins and cargo details including mdse cotton and naval stores. Ships mentioned include Schr Wm H Skinner, Stmr Merchant Dusenbury, Stmr F G Burroughs, Stmr Navahoe Hale, Stmr Wm Elliott, Stmr Frank Sessoms, Schr Flora Rogers, Stmr Katahdin Queen, and Steam Schooner Francis Hyde with consignments to BA Munnerlyn Co Clyde Line Waccamaw Lumber Co and A C Lumber Co, dates 18 to 21.
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