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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1909
Page
3
Local items report social visits and travels including Messrs Hazard Buie Doyle Wilkerson Camlin and Edwards at Myrtle Beach. Notices mention mortgage foreclosures satire on tariffs and trains and a gubernatorial poem. Advertisements promote Steele Moses Co bargains and Richmond stores upgrading lighting and decor.
News from Pawley’s Island reports the sudden death of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Shufford. The one-year-old baby had no prior illness and died at 4 a.m. The body was laid to rest at Elmwood Cemetery at six o’clock with Rev. W. H. Hodges officiating. The loss is described as a pure and holy memory for grieving parents.
Remaining unclaimed letters at the Georgetown Post Office require claimants to state they are advertised and that one cent is paid per letter delivered. Names listed include Daniel Brown James Bayford M D Bennett Dalis Cooper L D Foster Jnc Gibson Jacob Myers Thomas Pinckney Sam Ford Washington Weston Joe Wilson and several Mrs. holders and Miss Mary Alston Miss Clarena Read Mrs. Silvie Legar Mrs. Mary Singleton Mrs. Hattie Swain Mrs. J W Swentes Mrs. Mary Whitfield.
Twenty foot lower jawbone of a giant sperm whale, likely the world’s largest, received by the American Museum of Natural History from Captain B D Cleveland of the whaling brig Daisy, New Bedford.
Business locals note the loss of a ladies gold Elgin watch with a brown ribbon and Elks head fob, engraved June 10 1901. Reward left at the Item office. Also an advertisement for Electrical Contracting & Supply Co. and Georgetown Railway & Light Co. with services and lamp sale at cost. A Globe Gasoline Engine and a 25 ft boat are for sale at $225, apply to F. M. Brickman.
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