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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1909
Page
3
The column invites readers to use the Personal and Social Department and keep the phone line 1016 busy while offering to pay the charges.
Local items report visitors from Columbia Rosemary and Springfield postal deliveries with a bold appeal for readers to subscribe to the Sunday Outlook and Daily Item. A lecture by Booker T. Washington is announced at the Sumter opera house and a social launch on North Island is described with detailed menu.
Five oyster dredgers were feared dead after being caught by a storm while walking from a point on the Saint Pautoxet river to Annapolis. Confirmation comes from Annapolis sources.
The advertisement touts GOOD LUCK Baking Powder from the Southern Manufacturing Co of Richmond Virginia. It notes 13 ton carloads purchased by The Georgetown Grocery Co and claims wide national sales. It cites endorsements from chemists, guarantees under the 1906 Food and Drug Act, and lists Georgetown officials involved in handling the product.
Multiple local ads list a seven year old bay horse trained for harness, a large lot of household goods including beds dressers stoves and a Britannica set, wall paper rolls from 25 to 50 cents, Leghorn eggs for sale and discounted belts. Also offers a gas steamer Carrie M Dudley for charter and new ruching and neckwear at Georgetown Furniture Co.
Boyle and Boyle perform as the greatest comedy jugglers on the American stage at the Opera House tonight. Curtain at eight.
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