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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1912
Page
2
A garbled public notices fragment outlines instructions for notices and payments. It mentions real names of writers in German, acceptance conditions, rejected manuscripts, and money order payees to a manager.
An editorial from the New Orleans Times-Democrat lauds the Louisiana Supreme Court decision on drainage bonds in St Charles and Avoca districts. It argues continued funding via taxed flooded lands is essential to redeem nine million acres, ease bond markets, and enable new drainage districts under constitutional backing.
The passage notes the earth’s rapid movement through space and promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills claiming thorough work without griping or distress. It emphasizes health benefits and five feelings allegedly brought by the product.
Chicago reports Alfonso Fischer, son of Otto A. Fischer, sustained by an electrically driven vacuum cleaner. A pump feeds air into his lungs via a mask, alternating with pauses for medical oversight. Physicians say his survival hinges on continued use of the device and time.
Asheville, March 5 Walter A Harrison, 27, shot to death by his 20 year old wife as he slept. She admitted the shooting claiming accidental discharge during a struggle when he woke as she tried to take the pistol. She had been treated for mental derangement at Statesville Hospital and recently returned to Asheville. Coroner's jury says death by bullet caused by wife. Wife held for sanity commission. Also note: Lost or stolen bull Pappy, white with tail and ears cut, reward to C L Ford.
Mrs Taft joined the House rules committee hearing on alleged oppression during the Lawrence textile strike. Witness Miss Tema Comita described police crowding and alleged clubbing of women and children at the railroad station while Miss Camilla testified she saw police clubbing women in a patrol wagon. Mrs Taft stayed through the morning.
Miss Bessie Swift of Cincinnati an artist and musician traveling from Bermuda aboard the steamship Oceana coughed up an oyster containing a large pearl with two similar ones found in the shell. Dr. Rosenburg the ship's doctor helped dislodge the oyster and Miss Swift plans to have the pearls set in a pendant. The Oceana reached her pier last evening.
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