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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1911
Page
3
Market notes show spirits turpentine at 59 to 60 cents and cotton at 15 3 5 cents as well as prices for corn meal oats and rice. George town has no crude turpentine market though Bourne & Co furnishes quotable prices for virgin and yellow dip rosin tarin oil and related products.
Generally fair weather with local thunder showers tonight or Sunday. Light variable winds. Several residents arrive or travel between Savannah Summerville and Greenville. The Beaty Bros. prepare for a large sidewalk project in Charleston and Columbia. Local ads promote talcum powder canned goods medicines and household items.
An advertisement touts Sutherland's Eagle Eye Salve with a 25 cent price claim. It guarantees a cure that is painless and harmless, urging readers to purchase for eye cure.
Notice is given that books of subscription to the capital stock of The Peoples Mercantile Company will be opened at 12 00 M on May 22 1911 at the law offices of James W Wingate Georgetown S C The capital stock is 6000 divided into sixty shares of 100 each The business will be a general mercantile establishment located at Andrews The board of corporators includes H C Tallevast W B Blakeley T R Howle R M Haselden and J W Wingate
J A Purcell marble and granite dealer from Charleston promotes Sutherland's Eagle Eye Salve as a 25 cent cure for sore eyes with a money back guarantee. He also offers monument work and re lettering of old tomb stones with orders through D J Crowley for prompt attention.
Advertises Dr Bell's Antiseptic Salve guaranteed for tetter ring worm eczema chapped hands lips running sores ulcers and all skin diseases. Promoted as good after shaving and priced at 25 cents a box.
Several more steady boarders wanted at Central House, 85 per week. Also rooms to let, furnished or unfurnished, at reasonable rates. Contact A. Robbins.
Visitors for the Catholic church dedicatory exercises at Sumter on May 21 1911 should take the Om passenger car from Georgetown at 5 45 a m arriving in Sumter at 9 00 a m Return departs Sumter at 6 35 p m Georgetown arrival 9 30 p m W H Andrews Supt
The University of South Carolina offers scholarships in the School of Education to one young man from each county. Each scholarship is worth $100 in money along with an $18 term fee and free tuition. Examinations will be held at the county seat on July 14, 1911, with general admission tests at the same time. Information to S C Mitchell, President, Columbia, S C.
An advertise line touts Dr Bell's product ine-Tar-Hon ey as proven for sixteen years in millions of homes. It claims relief for coughs colds croup and bronchial troubles and urges readers to look for the bell on the bottle.
Generations rely on Pine Tar and Honey for cough relief. Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey combines these with other ingredients in a bottle marked with a bell. Choose Dr Bell's for this traditional remedy.
An advertisement asserts a growing demand for Dr Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey cough medicine. It urges readers in need of relief to try the product and promises they will understand the reason for its popularity.
Beginning May 22 one third off on all trimmed hats flowers and shapes at Souther Mercantile Company.
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