26 Jul 1911
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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1911
Page
1
Narrative continues about Ezzy and Jinks in a village set piece. Ezzy buys lumber and hauls it to old man Squinks, rumored to hold tax secrets. The group forms a committee to investigate Squinks as tension rises.
Sumter July 20 W R Bonsal, Seaboard project head, visited Sumter with investors touring the Southern territory to gauge rich freight potential. He promised engineering crews to map lines from Hartsville through Lydia and Bishopville to Sumter with multiple routes to counter landowner price holds and allow site selection for a terminal station based on reasonableness and cost.
Unsightly and dangerous conditions named in the ad claim Dr Bell's Antiseptic Salve heals promptly. It emphasizes cleanliness and pleasant use with a price of 25 cents per box and mentions wide availability at stores.
An advertisement promotes Dr Bells Pine Tar Honey as a cure for coughs colds grip or bronchial trouble. It urges readers to obtain a bottle today and look for the Bell on the Bottle.
Summer colds are harder to relieve than winter ones but respond to treatment with Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey. Sold everywhere. Look for the Bell on the Bottle.
An advertisement promotes Two In One Dr Bell s Anti Pain as both internal and external relief. It claims antiseptic properties that destroy disease germs. Sold everywhere on a positive guarantee.
Daily use pain remedy for internal and external relief. Keeps a bottle for all bowel troubles and external cuts burns sprains and all pains. Strongly antiseptic and sold everywhere.
Columbia July 25 Leon M Green News and Courier correspondent refuses to resign from Gov Blease staff. He will quit as correspondent, handing resignation to Col August Kohn upon his return from Canada. Green says he resigns under pressure but will keep unbiased coverage of official acts. He joined The State in 1907 and has been with its Columbia bureau since 1909.
Bay City Michigan July 25 a brief snow flurry occurred for five minutes several miles southeast of the city. It is the only snow ever recorded during July in this region of the state.
Snow flakes fell in Findlay Ohio last night likely forced down by a heavy atmosphere. The brief item notes a rare weather observation with no injuries or further details.
An old advertisement promotes Dr Bell's Antiseptic Salve for all skin diseases, claiming it yields readily to treatment, is painless and harmless, and guaranteed. Priced at 25 cents a box and sold everywhere.
Chronic sore eyes are treated with Sutherl and’s Eagle Eye Salve described as painless and harmless with a guarantee. Priced at 25 cents a box and sold widely.
Attorney General Wickersham branded Delegate Wickersham’s charges as falsehoods accusing him of shielding Alaskan criminals and letting the statute of limitations run in coal contract fraud cases. He cited no affidavits supporting the Douglas affidavit and noted investigation gaps. The suit would not expire until March 1912.
The Florence Times praises Senator Smith for finally halting the department of agriculture from aiding cotton bears. It credits him with keeping faith to the old principles of the Democratic party and suggests his work will repay his salary for multiple terms.
Burr S. Peck an 80 year old retired manufacturer dies after a long illness at his New Haven home. He married Mae Brine a Yale boarding house waitress who is 60 years his junior. Divorce suit filed earlier was withdrawn. Peck’s real estate valued above 100000 will go to the young widow.
Gray Motors for sale by E Allston offers agency for Gray Marine and Stationary Motors in Georgetown and surrounding county. Promises good bargains on one of the best gasoline engines made. Georgetown S C 17 24 4t.
An old advertisement extols Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey as the best remedy for a cough or cold. It urges readers to ask neighbors and look for the Bell label on the bottle.
A verse portrait traces a man who drinks nightly and by morning, yet remains unable to admit alcohol as the cause. He endures rheumatic joints, insomnia, swelling legs, and a series of misdiagnoses before chronic illness and withdrawal lead to his funeral, with the refrain that he never blamed the booze.
Richmond Virginia July 25 Chesterfield dairyman Roland Sydnor identified Henry C Beattie Jr as the man seen alone in an automobile the night of the murder and Beulah Binford is said to have given a statement providing motive. Beattie is charged with fatally shooting his wife in the same location.
Notice that J. Allston will apply to Bank of Georgetown one month from today for renewal of Bank Book No. 2742 in the Savings Department after the original was destroyed by fire.
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