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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1912
Page
4
The Spartanburg chamber of commerce will support county farmers in a bid for national corn prizes at the Columbia show. A twelve member committee will organize fifty plus farmers to grow at least one acre of prize corn. One thousand dollars will fund prizes and expenses to boost local agriculture and advertise the county.
Patents issued to Atlantic coast inventors include a peanut picker by Thomas M. Lilliston of Suffolk Virginia, a submarine mining apparatus by Charles Williamson of Norfolk, a loading device by W.2 Ham and A M Cook of Mebane, a display device for show windows by Bennet P. Rose of Henderson, and an ignition dynamo interrupter by Charles T. Mason of Sumter South Carolina. Five million settlers could find homes in the South without crowding existing residents. It also notes a social remark about exes and marriages.
An advertisement claims deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh. It promises a $100 reward for any cure Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot achieve, states price 75 cents, and urges sending for circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
In Danville W Evans writes about severe left side pain once blamed on a bad worker. He now attributes it to indigestion and credits Dr King's New Life Pills with curing stomach liver and kidney issues, constipation and headache. A 5c sample is available at druggists.
Mason Michigan man L A Stid recounts a severe storm exposure that left him with a dreadful chest cold and near pneumonia. A neighbor supplied Dr King’s New Discovery, which relieved his symptoms and saved him from pneumonia after continued use. The ad urges safe cough and lung medicine at 50 cents and one dollar, guaranteed by all drift ads.
A listing of lodge meetings at Georgetown includes The Lodges Courtney Camp No 407 W O W meeting first and third Wednesdays on the third floor over Bank of Georgetown with officers B E Fraser C C J M Turner Clerk Georgetown Rebekah Lodge No 31 1 C O F meets every second Tuesday at 8 pm and fourth Thursday at 4 pm at Odd Fellows Hall over Bank of Georgetown Mrs Wm Baskins N G Mrs Geo Easton Sec y Poncas Tribe No 78 1 O R M meets every Friday night at the Wigwam over Bank of Georgetown with Sachem H S Higgins and C of & W N McLeod
A reader testifies nature warns of peril like earthquakes and urges kidney care. The message praises a kidney medicine for backache dropsy and bladder trouble with claims of relief and recommends trying it at druggists for 50 cents.
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