Georgetown Chamber of Commerce Seeks Post Bill Opposition
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce held a large meeting proposing opposition to the Parcel Post bill before Congress. They urged U S Senators and Congressmen to obtain funds to improve waterways between the North and South Santee rivers to shorten and secure Georgetown to McCallenville travel. The equalization of taxation report was promised for February 1. A veneer sample from Atlantic Coast Lumber Corp demonstrated wood uses. Further local business matters were discussed with a full attendance anticipated for the February 1 meeting.
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Georgetown
President Roosevelt Takes Boxing Lessons From Ex Prize Fighter
Washington reports President Roosevelt trains daily with ex-prizefighter Sixsmith now through February end. The White House gym hosts half hour sessions ending with shower and massage before meals and rest. Roosevelt plans Africa voyage mid March and attends Electric Theatre program featuring racing bicyclists and a German legend film.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Billy Sixswith
Jimmy Murphy
Battling Nelson
John L. Sullivan
Jake Kilrain
Sixsmith
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Africa
Night Riders Indicted in Beach Shooting Case
Ware County grand jury returns fifteen indictments against five young men for riot and assault with intent to murder after a Beach town shooting spree that wounded 14 year old Maggie Taylor. Leonard P. Taylor prosecutes. suspects not yet arrested.
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Waycross
Ware County
Beach
Maggie ‘Taylor
Leonard P. Taylor
Massive Bank Mill Pond Fish Slaughter Draws Thousands
Caught Fish by Thousands. In Valdosta on January twenty six, over a thousand men from six counties gathered at Banks Mill Pond near Milltown to catch tens of thousands of fish. The pond was lowered from ten thousand acres to seven hundred so repairs could be made, enabling a massive harvest. Fish weighed up to twenty pounds and were taken by hand with shovels nets gigs and buckets after paying a dollar fifty for the privilege.
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Valdosta
Banks Mill Pond
Milltown
The Real Farmer Holds The Line On Value And Vision
A Yorkville Enquirer editorial recounts M Strauss saying the true salesman sells value beyond the obvious. It compares farming to savvy selling, noting the real farmer maximizes yield from all crop parts and reinvests for future value, not just raw cash from corn. The piece urges lifelong industry, perseverance, and broader use of farm byproducts.
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Yorkville
M. Strauss
Yorkville Enquirer
Boy Slayer to Die in Electric Chair in N J
Bridgeton Jan 26 Walter Zeller an eighteen year old Vineland boy was convicted of murder in the first degree for complicity in the killing of his grandfather William Read on November 19 1908 He was sentenced to be executed in the electric chair at Trenton during the week beginning March 8 Herbert Grigg and Cline Wheeler both eighteen were sentenced to thirty years at hard labor Grigg and Wheeler entered pleas of non cul for complicity in the same crime A petition is circulating in Southern New Jersey asking the Governor to commute Zeller s sentence to life imprisonment
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Bridgeton
N. J
Walter Zeller
Vineland
William Read
Trenton
Herbert Grigg
Cline Wheeler
Grigg
Wheeler
New Jersey
Zeller
Breakfast Months in Greenland Hotel Ledger
A traveller in Greenland asks the clerk about breakfast time. The clerk replies with a seasonal joke: from half-past March to a quarter to May. Source: Harper's Weekly.
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Greenland
Harper's Weekly
Miss Mary Hammell of Winfield Committed to Insane Asylum
Miss Mary Hammell, granddaughter of Revolutionary poet Philip Freneau, was committed to an insane asylum after being unduly influenced by a unscrupulous woman. The woman allegedly gained hypnotic control, led Hammell across the country, spent her money, and left her penniless after she deeded her property away.
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Mary Hammell
Winfield, L. T
Philip Freneau
Miss Hammell
Miss. _Hammell
Big Dog Guides Children Home From School
In Coleraine on January 26, a large Newfoundland owned by a farmer guards his three sons as they walk two miles to and from school across Trout Lake. The dog escorts the boys, the oldest under ten, through severe cold and blinding winds, returning them home safely after classes each day.
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Coleraine
Newfoundland
Trout Lake
Rules of Health for Daily Life
A compact regimen advises eating fruit at breakfast and lunch, avoiding pastries and cakes, and consuming potatoes only once daily. It forbids tea or coffee, prescribes walking four miles daily in any weather, requires a daily bath, nightly face washing with warm water, and aims for eight hours of sleep each night.
Plant Juice Doctor Delivers Free Diagnoses At Front St Clinic
In two days the Plant Juice Doctor drew large crowds of chronic sufferers. A door man seats patients and assigns numbers to manage the queue for free examinations. Located at 822 Front St next to the lab, the doctor promises honest appraisals of remedies. He treats chronic diseases including catarrh rheumatism and kidney issues.
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Front St
Plant Juice Promises Quick Cure for Various Ailments
The notice urges readers to visit the office today to address liver stomach and nervous system issues along with piles eczema asthma and chronic diseases. It claims Plant Juice acts as a great remedy opposing sickness and aiding nature to restore health with immediate action during office hours.
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Irgilium
Virgil
Chamber OF Commerce
President Boxing
Electric Theatre
Georgia
Farmer
Boy Slayer
Big Dog
England
Tfm
Phenix Suriture
J.read& GO
Georgetown, S.C
F.read & Company
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