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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1912
Page
3
Middling cotton brings 11.5 cents while spirits turpentine stands at 45. Corn prices at 1.10 per unit, meal 2.15, feed oats 74, U. S. bellies 12, butts at 1.5, rice whole 2, flour 4.50, pearl grist 6.00 to 6.25 per sack, and 2.10 for latest market items. This brief notes listed prices across staples and byproducts.
Weather notes indicate showers with cooler temperatures and southeast winds tonight. Georgetown County coverage lists court actions from yesterday morning with Judge Shipp presiding, including a murder case against William Anderson alias Pompey Joe dismissed for lack of evidence. Also details a Chautauqua exhibition with twin sisters and remarks on Dr. Roy I Leake and Thaw case testimonies.
George Baker an electrician for the New York and New Haven Railroad was fatally electrocuted at Larchmont while guiding painters on steel piers. A heavy steel bar in his grasp acted as a magnet drawing him to live wires feeding transformers. Thirty two thousand volts zapped him. a painter, Ernest Naistoponly rescued by Baker Friday, died later in hospital. Baker, 32, of Bridgeport, leaves a wife and child.
Harry K. Thaw, the Stanford White slayer, faced a new bid for freedom at White Plains New York as Dr. William A. White, alienist at a U.S. Government hospital in Washington, testified Thaw showed no insanity after three examinations. The expert said it would be unsafe to liberate him now.
A sales pitch-like note extols Electric Bitters as a means to win a rich wife by improving nerves, brain, temper, complexion, eyes, and energy. It claims benefits against indigestion, backache, headache, fainting, and dizziness with a 50 cent price at druggists.
An item notes the Titus Darner device that jars a pile of stockings while you mend a hole by hand. It promotes the Women’s Exchange offering fancy work and a small food option, implying value-priced goods.
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