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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1908
Page
1
A diverse local page reports bowling at Tourist Hotel and barber shop sterilization plans, music and theater at Coastline venues, shop openings and candy prices, a court roundup with sentences for grand larceny and assault, plus a playful exchange about monkeys and morals.
Chicago March 2 Chief of Police George M Shippy, his son Harry and his driver James Foley were wounded by an anarchist who tried to assassinate the official in the hall of his residence at 31 Lincoln Court. Mrs Shippy and her daughter Géorgietta joined the struggle, the chief fatally responding with his revolver. Identification of the dead man has not yet succeeded.
Seventeen year old Constantine Pellegrino fought his drunken father in a South Brooklyn home to protect his mother. After obtaining a revolver he shot his father five times, three in the head, in front of his mother and two younger brothers. He told police he acted to save his mother from death.
In Newberry on a Sunday afternoon Henry Robertson was killed by Bob Johnson on a pine lot at James Halfacre's place. Johnson surrendered after the shooting in a suspected gambling gathering with a nickel bet leading to shots. Robertson fired back wounding Johnson and another man. Witness accounts at the inquest conflict over who fired first.
The arrival notices list the steamer Katahdin Queen Baltimore Md light to A C Str Corp. Tarheel Adair lumber to B A Munnerlyn Co. City of Columbia Kent Columbia mdse to Columbia and Georgetown S S Co. Navahoe Hale N Y in Wilmington mdse to Clyde S S Co. Mitchttie C Thompson Conway mdse by Wac camaw Line Strs.
Two barbers operate the Tourist Hotel Barber Shop inviting patrons to try the services. The shop advertises no long waits and popular prices, highlighting convenience for guests. C. P. Foxworth Co. carries Sweet Spanish Pepper in cans and a full line of Pickles Jams Jellies and Preserves as well as Chase & Sanborn’s Coffee and Teas.
An advertisement touts Buchan's Soap as absolutely pure hygienic and refreshing. Readers are urged to send 10 cents for a cake of Buchan's Cotton Bloom to Buchan's Soaps Corporation 225 Fifth Ave New York.
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