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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1912
Page
3
Middling cotton quoted. turpentine price at 4.12. meal 1.75. feed oats 65. rice whole 4.50. flour 4.50 to 5.25. pearl grist 1.75. No market in Georgetown for crude turpentine. Bourne & Co provides quotations for New Virgin, Dip 3.00. Yellow Dip 8. derape 2.00. Tarin oil 8.00. Rosin NY quiet.
Rain and much colder tonight with a fairer but still cold Saturday and increasing north and northeast winds. Local items include visits from Mr. T Dunham Bailey and notes on Miss Bertie Caines recovering from appendicitis. Also funeral details for John N Conklin and shopfront improvements on Front Street. A film feature The Mystery of the Maine is promised for Saturday.
Storms from the northwest disrupt wire and road traffic across the Central States. Trains delayed and telegraph and telephone communications cut in many areas. Rain and thunder in the Ohio valley with swollen streams. Ohio River flood warning issued by Pittsburgh weather bureau.
Presiding Elder Holroyd delivered a most pleasing and instructive discourse at Duncan M R Church last evening. The Georgetown Fire Department nears completion of a brick building on Front Street costing $10000, to be among the Souths finest equipped halls. Forty five delegates named by the Governor will attend the Southern Commercial Congress in Nashville April 8 10, with Dr Olin Sawyer representing this county. Mrs J W Kyle of Charlestown WV arrived to visit Mr and Mrs Robt M Baylor. Easter cards and booklets advertised at Easton Novelty Store.
Systemic catarrah relief is claimed by multiple users of Peruna. Mrs Della May Bamuels of Tipton Indiana reports eight bottles cured years of catarrh and suggests spouses try it. Mrs Wilson Robinson of Toledo Ohio says she feels like a new person gaining twenty four pounds and works easily after using Peruna for spring ailments.
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