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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1912
Page
3
Greenville Tennessee resident W. HL Housley recounts a severe grippe five years prior that left him bedridden with throat and tonsil troubles. After refusing surgery twice he credits one bottle of Peruna with improvement and states he then used many bottles and began to recover.
Middling cotton and spirits turpentine quotes appear with several crude items and byproducts. The report notes no market in Georgetown for crude turpentine while Bourne & Co provides quotations for dip yellow dips and tarin oil barrels, rosin in New York and related markets.
Fair tonight with frost and Sunday fair with moderate north winds. In Charleston visiting relatives are Mrs. John R. Smith and Miss Mary Daggett while Mrs. G A Lohr and Miss Margaret Lohr visit friends there. Miss Marie St Germain returns home from college due to her mother's illness. Sam Mercer moves to reopen his garage in the old Bank of Georgetown area. No Clyde steamer due to ship collision and G W R R delays, passenger train reached at 3 this morning with no fatalities yet reported. Mrs. E Butler returns from Charleston, where both her mother and niece are convalescing. Wol Harrigan expects to gain a Charleston Racing Association horse for breeding use in this county. Gov yesterday appointed H D Munnerlyn supervisor to succeed Jos Bronson as sheriff. Munnerlyn is known for county road needs and prior Board of County Commissioners service.
Two additional arrests were reported in the Myrtle Hawkins murder case in Asheville North Carolina. Nora Britt and Lizzie Shafi were arrested by county deputies and charged with having guilty knowledge or active participation in the criminal operation that led to Hawkins death last September. Britt is jailed in Buncombe County. Shafi was taken to Hendersonville jail for a preliminary hearing Friday morning before a local magistrate.
At the Churches Services Sunday Mar 17 1912 Church of Prince George Winyah 8 a m Holy Communion 11 a m Morning service and sermon 4 p m Sunday School 6 p m Evening service and Everyone is cordially invited Duncan Methodist Church Sunday March 17 Preaching at 11 a m by the pastor Sunday School 4 p m Geo B Sanders Supt Henry Stokes Pastor
A vintage style advertisement promotes Dr. King’s New Life Pills claiming quick travel through space speed as a joke. It touts no griping or distress and promises “thorough work” for health with a 25 cent price at druggists.
Georgetown women plan an exchange at the Easton Novelty Store starting April 1. Membership costs 25 cents for three months, allowing members to sell their fancy work or cooking. The exchange takes ten percent of sales and initial prices are limited to 25 cents and under for the first three months. Call at the Easton Novelty Store to join.
An advertising claim touts Buckien arnica salve as a perfect safe cure for children’s eczema rashes tetter chafings and skin injuries including cuts burns and sores. It asserts rapid healing for boils ulcers piles and fever sores with a 25 cent price at all druggists.
The New York Sunday World offers a 16 page color joke book free with each issue. Readers are urged to ask their newsdealer today to reserve a copy before supplies run out, noting the joke book accompanies the Sunday World Comic Weekly and the illustrated Magazine Section.
A first person reminiscence from a newsboy about Sunday night trips to the moving pictures with his girlfriend Mag and her mother. He recalls Mag’s father as a drinker who reforms after seeing films, and notes the allure of foreign lands and the idea that films shape understanding of the world, including America’s own image.
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