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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1911
Page
3
There is no market in Georgetown for crude turpentine but Bourne & Co furnishes quotations. Virgin turpentine 4.00, Yellow Dip 4.00, Tarin oil barrels 4.25, Rosin NY quiet, for various grades including 65c spirits and 1.45 feed oats with other items listed such as cotton corn and rice.
Fair and continued warm tonight and Friday with light variable winds. Dr. Clifton will be here only until Saturday. Execut ive clemency appeal of W. T. Jones denied by Governor Blease. Jones’s Supreme Court appeal dismissed by Acting Associate Justice Robert Aldrich. Columbia agent J. W. Smith in the city. Guerdon Tarbox left for New York. Rev Hy Webb Bays D D lectures on Courtship at the Opera House next Tuesday evening the 23rd, proceeds to carpet fund. Cake Baking contest at C P Foxworth Co. for Duncan M E Church raised prizes and honored bakers. Mr and Mrs Reese left for New York aboard the steamship Katahdin. Dr Clifton to be in Georgetown four days this week. For sale Steam Tug Bull River with engine and boiler. boat worth at least 2500. Fishing party leaves for Sand Creek. D J Crowley rebuilt the Rose hull. interior to be fitted after engine is installed.
An ad touts Eagle Eye Salve at 25 cents a tube as a guaranteed cure for sore eyes. The creamy snow white ointment is pitched with a risk free guarantee to customers.
Marble and granite dealer J A Purcell of Charleston is in the city to take orders for monuments and for re lettering and cleaning old tomb stones. Orders left at Mr D J Crowley's will receive prompt attention. 8308.
Advertises a salve claiming painless, harmless healing with a money back guarantee. Targets readers seeking fast relief and emphasizes assurance of cure for a small cost.
The wife of John Washington a respected barber of this city died last night after a long illness. Our sympathy is extended to him in this grievous loss.
A local ad emphasizes proper attire for graduates, urging the young man to wear a made to measure pure wool suit to project confidence as he receives his diploma. It promises perfect fit and best workmanship with special care for cleaning and pressing.
Several more steady boarders wanted at the Central House at $5 per week. Also rooms to let furnished or unfurnished at reasonable rates. C. A. Robbins, Proprietor.
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