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Georgetown Daily Item

Location

Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Jan 23, 1909

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Organ Recital for Benefit Fund at Franklin Street Church

A charity organ recital will be held at Fray even Church on February 26 at 8:30 PM. The program includes Festival Jubilate, Come Thou Almighty King, The Planes of Peace solo, At the Cloister Gate, Go Labor On quartet, Abide with Me duet, Nearer My God to Thee organ, and I Will extol Thee chorus, with a collection for the organ fund.

Organ Fund Duncan M. FE Fray Even H. P. Danks Rossini Andrie Baldwin Father Most Merciful Mason

Panic in Baltimore School Sparks Escape Fears

About five hundred children panicked at a Baltimore school last Friday when a gas explosion occurred in the first floor corridor. A girl leaped from a second story window amid crowding, others jumped from windows while congested doors blocked exits. The building was condemned and a teacher had lit a gas range to heat lunch before the incident.

Baltimore

Lawyer Quizzed by Himself on Stand in Supreme Court

Ernest G. Stevens a lawyer in Justice Lehman's division examined himself as a witness for himself in a $10 000 suit against Edwin B. Smith Melvin Breen and Stephen G Clarke He produced memoranda and recalled a July 10 1892 date and noted a fish supper hosted by Representatives Dear and Sawyer at Columbia with Whaley and Lloyd among the guests.

Ernest G. Stevens Lehman Supreme Court Stevens Edwin B. Smith Melvin Breen Stephen G. Clarke Charles Currie Committee of Fish, Game and Forestry Dear and Sawyer Columbia Whaley B. L. Lloyd Georgetown

Demorest Comedy opens week at Opera House

The Demorest Comedy Company presented The Miner's Daughter last night to the season's largest crowd, praised as the best since 67. Cast praised for artistry, notably the Miner's Daughter and Marie De Gafferelly. Tonight features A Midnight Elopement with 25 and 35 cent prices.

Demorest Opera House Chas Zeke Marie de Gafferelly

The Joys of Home Getaway Scene in Hotel Escape

A young man in fine clothes lowers from a third story window at dawn with a heavy handbag and umbrella. He runs to the station, claiming an uncle’s death in Honduras to justify a hurried escape and to evade a planned straw ride for the next day.

Honduras

What Papa Said About the Fourth Cake Pass

A little girl recalls etiquette lessons about cake served in rounds. After polite refusals and thanks, she reveals her final reply when the fourth pass arrives, quoting her father’s blunt instruction to take the cake away.

Mamima

Stranger dupes man with fake real beer bottle in Ohio

In Piqua Ohio a man named Henry Martin paid two dollars for a bottle labeled real beer after a stranger promised an authentic drink for a dollar. He paid another dollar, received a bottle, and later found the soda was not beer. Police say there is nothing they can do.

Piqua Henry Maretin Martin

Feared Surgeon's Knife Panic at Hospital

Frank Howard a colored man fled the Johnson Hopkins Hospital ward as a physician prepared to lance a tubercular leg ulcer. He leaped from a second floor porch about 20 feet to the ground, was calmed at the police station, then returned to the hospital and discharged with clothing.

Frank Howard Johms Hoptins Hospital Howard Spooner

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Stranger Henry Phenix Dumiture Stern & Son Gustom Tailors New York London Georgetown Furniture Co I. W. Harper Jim McSuister Bond James Hugh L. Oliver Old Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co
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