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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1912
Page
3
Middling cotton and spirits lead a dense price list with turpentine at 11 1-2, corn at 474, meal at 90, feed oats at 1.75, DS bellies and butts at 65, rice whole at 4.50, flour 4.505.25, pearl grist in sacks at 1.75. A concise nod to assorted commodity values from a historical market page.
South Carolina weather remains fair tonight and Friday with light westerly winds becoming variable. Button Bros retail fish dealers report about 300 pounds of blackfish croakers flounders and trout arrived today from the sea. Tomorrow May 10th features Confederate graves decoration at 4 PM at Broad and High Market streets.
The Columbia board awarded Adams Electric Co of Newark the contract to install and equip the electric chair at the State Penitentiary. The chair will use local power and the death chamber is already built, with two Charleston prisoners scheduled for June 21. Governor Bass of New Hampshire is noted among seven term limits supporters whose views may not reflect his constituents.
Mrs P D Epps of Kingstree South Carolina testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved her kidney pain two years ago and she has not needed kidney medicine since. The ad urges shoppers to buy from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as US sole agents and to remember the name.
Each Daughter is asked to make as many wreaths as possible and send to the monument Friday morning. Committee chairmen must ensure enough wreaths for graves in assigned cemeteries. Schoolchildren should bring one wreath and a bouquet. Committees will decorate the graves the afternoon before February.
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