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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1912
Page
3
Middling cotton quoted as 11 1 4. Spirits turpentine 441 2. Corn 1.10 meal 2.15 feed oats 74 C. S. Bellies 12 D. Butts 1 2 rice whole 4.50 flour 6.00 6.25 pearl grist in sacks.
Local showers expected tonight and Wednesday with light variable winds. The piece also records obituaries for Col Ralph Nesbit at Caladonia Waccamaw, a Georgetown election pencil gag, a large snake killed near Dr Croft’s drug store, and civic notices including marriage of Capt George Bennet and Maud Estes, plus naval staffing changes in Charleston.
C W Rouse states loss of certificates for 10 shares each in the Winyah B and L Association and Georgetown Mutual B and L Association. He declares the originals void and will apply for duplicates. No other details provided.
A story of a man immune to fear answers an ad seeking an umpire for a baseball game before 20,000 sport loving Americans. He recounts battles from Mexico to Africa to prove courage, then balks at facing the crowd. The interview ends with a panic run for the door.
An old style ad rhetoric urges a crowd to move on and claims police can whack heads. It contrasts harsh mineral pills with Dr. King’s New Life Pills which allegedly ease bowel congestion and improve health gently. 25 cents at all druggists.
Miss Harriet Quimby of New York, America’s first licensed woman aviator, and W A P Willard perish when their Bleriot monoplane plunges from about 1000 feet into Dorchester Bay near Atlantic City after a harbor flight of twenty miles in twenty minutes.
Miss Quimby and Willard suffered a high gust induced crash near Savin Hill Yacht Club just outside the aviation grounds. The monoplane yawed when struck by a gust, throwing them clear as it dived and plunged into the water twenty feet from shore, both plunging beneath the surface before resurfacing.
Georgetown resident James H. Ponard endorses Doan’s Kidney Pills as a remedy for backache and kidney trouble. He claims the pills relieved nightly pain and lameness after use. Advertisement notes the product is sold by all dealers for 50 cents, Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo as U.S. agents.
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