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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1912
Page
3
Middling cotton. Spirits turpentine at 11 1/2. Corn 4634. Meal 90. Feed oats 1.75. Rice whole 9. Butts 9 1/2. Flour 4.50. Pearl grist in sacks 5.25. Prices for bellies and other items listed as read.
Fair tonight and Saturday with light to moderate northwest and north winds. A Sunday picnic thank you implied by Duncan Methodist Sunday School. Charleston Alderman Chicco sailed to Italy. Mrs Tobin of Charleston visiting sister in city. Tug W. H. Andrews raised at railroad dock after sinking. Josh Ward of Waverly Mills praised for quick restoration efforts on steamers.
Sumter May 23. George D. Shore, via Congressman Lever, secured a six inch shell from the battleship Maine as a city relic. The shell was placed on exhibition in the post office lobby this morning and attracted much attention.
Daisy Opie Grace, once of Philadelphia, indicted for shooting her husband Eugene H. Grace, freed on $5 000 bond in Atlanta. She will stay with former nurse Lena Wilson until trial likely late June.
An OCR fragment advertises sales at Burgin promising a best bargain if customers act quickly. The fragment mentions Mr Simpkins and urges immediate action with knocks at your door.
Clarence V. T. Richeson, executed in Boston for Avis Linnell's murder, was buried on the old Richeson farm near Lynchburg. The private ceremony laid the body beside paternal grandparents, with only family present and pallbearers among close relatives. Douglas Richeson of Chicago accompanied the casket home.
In Wytheville on May 23 John Dalton testified that Wesly Edwards, still a fugitive, handed out cartridges to Allen clan members shortly before the Carroll County Court shooting in the Claude Allen murder case involving Judge Massie. Dalton also said Boyd Marion fired several times on the Art House green, prompting the prosecution to rearrest Marion after a bail release. Thirteen witnesses were questioned.
Mrs. Mary E. McGuire of Charleston South Carolina endorses Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble and backache. She reports long suffering replaced by relief after using the pills, now enjoying better health. For sale by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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