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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1909
Page
3
A plan for a temporary grand dancing floor on the New York to Brooklyn bridge approv es a week of dancing with two hundred foot long platform sixty feet wide and above the water. The event features three bands many lights open air sides and police presence to curb disorder during the opening celebration.
Mrs. Lew Crist of Chicago visiting B. W. Riley's family in Rushville shot and killed her 24 year old son Devon Crane before taking her own life. The bodies were found in the Riley home. Crist, divorced from both husbands, left money for burials. Letters offered no reason. authorities suspect dementia from a brother's January death.
A collection of small ads lists found pocket-book with coins and two checks, a bay horse for sale, household goods including dressers beds stoves and encyclopaedia set, rolls of wallpaper, wash ties, Leghorn eggs for sale, ladies belts, rugs and bogs sale, slightly soiled baby caps, and a charter service for Currie M. Dudley. The notices invite owners to claim items and to visit local stores for purchases and inquiries.
By resolution the Georgetown Railway and Light Company will hold a stockholders meeting at the company office in Newtown Pennsylvania on Wednesday March 31 1909 at 8 pm to consider issuing bonds totaling 200 090 dollars due in thirty years with six percent interest and securing them by mortgage on all property and franchise of the company. By order of the Board S C Case Secretary February 25 1909.
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