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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1911
Page
3
Quotations from Messrs Bourne & Co summarize spot prices for turpentine and agricultural commodities. Listed are spirits turpentine 52 34, cotton 153.8, corn 50, meal 1.45, oats 56 260, rice 3 4 to 41-4, flour 6.25 to 8.75, rosin 8.50, with brief notes on regional activity and market quiet in New Virgin and NY regions.
Unsettled conditions bring local showers tonight or Sunday across South Carolina. Winds will be light to moderate and mainly from the southwest.
A stream of notices and ads including bakery pitch for Palmer’s Bakery 815 Front St a steamer excursion to North Island 25c and sermons by Rev W H Murray and Rev Way a police quip about a blue speckled pointer in the pound a retail dry goods salesman wanted with gilt edge references job at Roberts Dry Goods Dept Charleston a note on Front street sidewalk paving praise for A C Holton engineer teas and coffees by Chase and Sanborn banquet blends at C P Foxworth Co cures for chills with 666 and jams jellies and olives offered at C P Erie land buy requests for cut over properties addressed to C U Klattte 61 Broad Street Charleston.
A midday electrical storm hit Andrews destroying the A. C. L. Corporation warehouse and site, with farming fixtures and feed inside valued at about 12,000 dollars and insured for 2,000. The blaze followed as workers were in Georgetown for Clemson Winthrop demonstrations.
Services listed for Sunday at the Church of Prince George Winyah include 8 am Holy Communion 11 am Morning Service and Sermon 5 pm Sunday School and 8 pm Evening Service with lecture on Ruth the Gleaner A cordial welcome extended to all.
A Waynesville North Carolina man, F R Huffman, reports severe indigestion and false heart trouble, but says Thedford’s Black-Draught cured his ailment and restored health. The ad urges readers to try the vegetable liver remedy, claiming 70 years of popularity and a 25 cent price.
Advertises Sutherland's Eagle Eye Salve as a universal cure for granulated eye lids without cauterizing or sacrificing. Claims a guaranteed cure for 25e everywhere.
An advertisement urges choosing sanitary refrigeration to protect family health. It warns that freezers and wooden interiors harbor germs and odors. It touts the White Frost Sanitary Refrigerator in three sizes priced at 25 30 and 35 from Southern Mercantile Co.
Foley's Kidney Remedy is recommended for chronic kidney and bladder trouble. It is said to regulate kidney and bladder action, with healing strength and bracing effects. The Iseman Drug Co and The Croft Drug Co advertise it. Lost a pair of gold rimmed eye glasses in a case between Duncan Methodist church and 212 Orange street. Finder should leave them at The Item office.
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