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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
1
Items show naval talk on Japan enlistment figures and actions of Commander Sims. Land and livestock ads promote horses mules and drivers. Community groups meet at the old Methodist Church. Mr. Evans joins New York Police. election updates hint at Senate race. local business buyouts and upcoming theater acts. Editorial note on advertising value and reading habits.
Georgetown local theatre announces the Osman Stock Co will play at the Opera House all next week. The troupe expands this season with new plays led by Mat Goodwin’s New York hit A Fool of Fortune as the opening bill. High class vaudeville will be added between acts, promising record crowds.
Dr. John C. Kilgo president of Trinity College NC spoke at the North Carolina Society dinner in New York on the meaning of prohibition for the South. He argued the movement awakens civic conscience, offers untrammeled voting, crosses class lines, and could restore Southern citizenship though warned of past political missteps. The speech pressed learning to obey political matters with less passion.
The Tourist Hotel Barber Shop reports all tools towels soap and supplies sterilized. The Electric Theatre features The Seaman's Widow MW Duick performing I am on Fire and King of the Bandits tonight.
In a Saturday night raid on the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Winnipeg Manitoba paying teller Free man Sussex was shot in the arm as two masked bandits fired their pistols. Sussex returned fire and the robbers fled toward the Canadian Pacific yards with two of the gang wounded. Sussex to be rewarded for his actions.
A minister finds boys circling a dog and asks what they plan to do. They respond that the biggest liar among them will win the dog, revealing a sly street game about deceit and prize.
A brutal daylight attack near Empire Georgia leaves Warren Hart dead and his wife gravely wounded. Police reportedly arrest two Black suspects as the community fears possible lynching while residents scour the scene for clues and search for stolen money.
Two barbers operate at the Tourist Hotel Barber Shop offering quick service and popular prices with no long waits for customers.
Georgetown Candy Kitchen advertises groundnut candy six cents per pound coconut eight cents crystallized peanut ten cents and chocolate coconut eight cents at 813 Front St with phone 227-08 for customers to test before buying.
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