Local and Personal Notes From The Daily Item
A collage of short notices recounts small town life: calls for cabbage plants from R C Griggs, a lost small silver open faced watch with reward to R B Wiggins at 12% Cleland St, and varied local chatter about health magazines, sausage legality, and a tourist hotel barber shop inviting visitors with popular prices. Other items note a wedding of Lydia Smith to Benjamin Whaley, local commerce such as oysters at Westbury Pool Room, and routine council money matters plus a brief market listing of fruits and produce.
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R. C. Griggs
R.B. Wiggins
Cleland St
Guv. Hughes
New York
Hamby
Naval Reserves
King Street
W. H. Andrews
Lydia Smith
Benjamin Whaley
Charleston
Georgetown Western Railroad Co
Rivers and Harbors talk at Georgetown Chamber meeting
Hon J A Fox of Arkansas spoke to about 50 businessmen on river and harbor improvements and national funding, urging united action and annual appropriations. The chamber passed resolutions endorsing federal support, planning a ten year program with up to 500 million dollars, and considering bonds if needed. An invitation was extended for a bay excursion with Fox and local leaders.
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Chamber of Commerce
J. A. Fox
Arkansas
Rivers and Harbors Congress
Fox
Congress
W.D Morgan
M “Fox
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Georgetown
L.S. Ehrich
W. Hazard
Georgetown Chamber of Commerce
John A. Fox
South Carolina
National Treasury
S. C
National Rivers and Congress
National Congress
United States
Morgan
Coal Dealers Raise Anthracite Prices Amid Delivery Woes
Retail coal dealers yesterday increased the price of domestic anthracite by fifty cents per ton with the higher rate to hold until traffic and streets return to normal. A dealer said the move covers extra delivery costs in case heavy snow makes streets impassable, after which the old price would resume.
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Anthracic CO
Ade
Unclaimed Letters At Georgetown Post Office 1908
Post office records list unclaimed letters for period ending January 25 1908. Names include MEN Stephen Alston Capt Bristow Brown Henry Brown Joseph Beach S H Beard Bessy Cooper Micall Coit Brad Cambee Moses Qinnis Jacob Den mark Mack Mord Ben Hay Joseph Johnson M Maybank Wm Moore Isise Norris Jemne Rice Peter Scott Joe Sander TJ Sessions Claud Pritchett EE Smith Samuel Simmons James Tucker Albert Washington and WOMEN Lassie Alston Mary Ash Minnie Days Adna Dobby Jess Fraser Lile Greter Liza Green Mary Green Susan Green Laura Hazel Susan Moore Lutie McCann on MryG Ravenell Ada Mar rane Emer Suiall Elizabeth Smalls Mary Simmons Charlotte Wilson.
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Stephen Alston
Capt
Bristow Brown
Henry Brown
George W. Beach
Joseph Brown
S. H Beard
Bessy Cooper
Micall Coit
Brad Cambee
Moses Qinnis
Jacob Denmark
Mack Mord
Ben Hay
Joseph Johnson
M. Maybank
Wm Moore
Isise Norris
Jemne Rice
Peter Scott
Joe Sander
TJ Sessions
Claud Pritchett
EE Smith
Samuel Simmons
James Tucker
Albert Washington
Lassie Alston
Mary Ash
Minnie Days
Adna Dobby
Jess Fraser
Lile Greter
Liza Green
Mary Green
Susan Green
Laura Hazel
Susan Moore
Lutie McCannon
Mryg R Ravenell
Ada Marrane
Emer Suiall
Elizabeth Smalls
Mary Simmons
Charlotte Wilson
Slander Assertion Repeats Southern Negro Stereotype
A Cleveland Leader excerpt captures a heated exchange with Connel Pepper declaring he once owned a hen that lived twenty years as a counter to charges of slander. Mr Keene doubts the claim and Pepper insists the remark proves that the southern Negro was slandered.
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Connel Pepper
Alabama
Mr. Keene
Cleveland Leader
Oil King At Negro Church In Augusta
John D Rockefeller attended a Sunday service at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta led by Rev. C P Walker known as the Black Spurgeon. He arrived with his physician Dr Biggar and after the sermon donated a generous sum to the church following a study conference with Walker. Rockefeller had previously attended this church last winter and gave Walker a neat sum then as well.
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Augusta
John D Rockefeller
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Walker
Spurgeon
Rockefeller
Biggar
Serman Rockefeller
Daring thieves loot mail wagon in New Orleans
January 26 report says two robbers attacked a United States mail wagon arriving from Cincinnati at Queen and Crescent rate. About $5,000 is suspected. authorities gave no amount. The heavily screened wagon with a driver and helper was blocked near freight cars. both men were unharmed and detained by police as sacks were rifled.
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New Orleans
United States
Cincinnati
Queen and Crescent
Post Office
Gift of love through Christ offered on simple terms
The message states that love from Jesus Christ is given on the easiest possible terms and received by belief. Belief means trust and dependence, recognizing God as able and willing to do all He offers, with the believer trusting Him to act. Rev. W. N. Rankin emphasizes that belief is more than mere assent.
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Jesus Christ
God
W. N. Rankin
Presbyterian
Denver
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Rey
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Malaga
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L. S. Ehrich
Vance
Ferson
Oil King
Negro Church
Armory Opera House
E . Haselden
Adamson
H. B. Hinson
Just
Seth Momas
H. Inman
Front St
Pwo
Prince Grace
Fraser Street
Wheeler Wall Paper & Ken Co
Charlotte
B.f.jones & Son
Front and
Orange Streets
Grocery Co
Kandl & Kehr Merchant Tailors
Frort Street
Grocery Coy
Cannon
Cannon and
Highmarket
J. H. Fraser
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