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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1912
Page
2
A damaged notice from O W Rouse, manager, requests real name submission for notices and states rejected manuscripts and money orders must be payable to the Item Co. The fragment mentions author attention and advises proper addressing of submissions.
The article argues Congress may pass joint resolutions to amend the constitution restricting presidential tenure to a six-year single term. It cites broad support across houses and among citizens to prevent third terms and potential lifelong office, noting historic figures who favored such limits and calling for a constitutional bulwark against Caesarism. It also contains an unrelated ad for Hall's Catarrah Cure and pills.
Rev Clarence V T Richeson self confessed murderer of Miss Avis Linnell was electrocuted at Charlestown jail Boston at 1208 this morning. He claimed after death that his soul had been pardoned by God. The writer denounces the crime and calls for harsher punishment. No further details were available.
Dr. David Allyn Gorton, aged eighty, welcomes twins in Brooklyn after an experiment in eugenics. The boy Allyn and girl Leona weigh six and a half pounds each, born April 25 at 632 Eleventh Street. The parents credit the births to a theory of determining offspring sex, though numbers surprised them with a girl twin as well.
Halifax May 20 Word from White Star officials that the government steamer Montmagny found no more bodies in the Titanic disaster and abandoned the search returning to Halifax Captain Johnson in charge cites near continual fog since last Thursday as the reason for halting the search
Sapulpa Oklahoma May 18 bootlegger used a mail sack to hide small whiskey packages at the depot. He was observed with the sack but not challenged until the postmaster alerted authorities. Police arrested him as he was not a post office employee and the sack held pints and half pints instead of letters.
D W Stockwell of Aurora Illinois died in Hawarden Canada at 77. Once Northern Illinois’s large Civil War era store owner he kept antique goods and hoop skirts on his shelves for decades. He did no advertising and opened at 7 daily, 6 pm closing, waiting for customers who never came.
New York May 20. Wilfred Ankers a nurse is on trial before Supreme Court Justice Scudder in Brooklyn charged with poisoning nine infants by oxalic acid in milk. The nine infants died months ago at an infant’s hospital where the nurse was employed. The defendant has a baby of her own. Her counsel argues she is railroaded and framed by another person.
B Small & Co. announces a new Green Grocery at 1116 Front Street selling beef pork mutton and groceries. A call will convince the public that their goods are first class. Phone number 277.
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