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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1908
Page
4
Daniel Zimmerman, age 60 with poor health, began a three year term at the State Penitentiary after the remittitur affirmed his sentence. He entered with his young son present, wife visiting later, and was assigned light duties in the prison.
A New York man died of scarlet fever from handling germ laden money. the piece warns that common hundred dollar bills spread disease more than fifty and twenty dollar bills, urging people to avoid carrying large sums and noting that thousand dollar bills are less implicated despite their tycoon bearing.
A quirky exhortation urges exchanging all smaller money for thousand-dollar bills to curb disease. It portrays bankers burning old currency and promises immediate health and world improvement if everyone adopts the practice and refuses smaller notes.
An advertisement claims Buchan's Soap as absolutely pure hygienic and refreshing. It invites readers to mail 10 cents in stamps for a cake of Buchan's Cotton Bloom and directs payment to Buchan's Soaps Corporation at 225 Fifth Ave New York.
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