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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
3
Market notes offer 2900 acres of middling cotton near Edisto River and 12 miles from Jacksonboro with turpentine operations. Includes excellent pasturage and hunting preserve, drained lands, and quick development potential. Prices: flour 6.00 to 6.25 cash. pearl grist in sacks 2.10.
South Carolina forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms tonight into Saturday with brisk southeast to west winds diminishing tonight. A mix of local notices includes campaign announcements, school events, estate ads, and community notices from Charleston and nearby towns.
The Philathea Class of Duncan Methodist Church was delightfully entertained by Miss Eva Dunn at her Highmarket Street home on Wednesday afternoon. Guests wrote wishes, solved a state abbreviation guessing contest, enjoyed hot chocolate, and played a romance writing game before exchanging wishes and bidding farewell.
A Neenah man suffered severe chest strain from a violent coughing fit. The item touts Dr. King’s New Discovery as a remedy for persistent coughs and weak lungs. User testimonials claim relief and reliability, with a Missouri resident praising it as a godsend. Available in 1.00 size at druggists.
A fragmentary reading shows advice from a motherly voice about fashion and virtue, stressing that mothers wish daughters to be innocent and good over stylish. The text also criticizes price manipulation by large meat packers, calling for criminal and civil action to break up monopolies and hold officials personally accountable.
Reuben Weicks, a 30 year old Black athlete aboard the steamer Alice near Mandeville, fell into Lake Pontchartrain shortly after 8 am and swam 21 miles to the lake's west end, arriving at 4:14 pm. He said he did it to prove himself, with no assistance as no vessels were seen.
A newspaper ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, claiming it treats constitutional disease from within to cleanse blood and mucous surfaces. It offers a $100 reward if it fails and lists J Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio, with a 75 cent price and referral to Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Cavitgron farm near iy estiste hosts a twenty acre patch of berries expected to yield about four thousand crates, totaling twenty four thousand crates for the crop. Two hundred pickers will harvest as blossoms turn to green berries and fruit ripens by next week.
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