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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1911
Page
3
Market quotes list prices for spirits turpentine and various commodities including cotton corn meal oats and flour. The report notes no current market in Georgetown for crude turpentine with Bourne & Co providing quotations for New Virgin Dip Yellow Dip tarin oil and rosin as of the period.
Fair to night and Friday with little temperature change and variable winds. Local arrivals include H C Case from Philadelphia and EK Haselden from Wilmington. The Steele-Moses Co launches a ten day May 25 sale with bargains on spools, prints, gauze vests, and other merchandise. An oyster-shell schooner Gibbs sank near McClellanville with Captain Leland and a deckhand lost. The Steamer Commanche will run a Sunday excursion to North Island for whites, fare 25c. Georgetown fireside notes urge training and vaudeville at Air Dome, plus Mountain View Lodge rates in Hendersonville, NC ending 5-25.
An advertisement for Sutherland's Eagle Eye Salve touts a 25 cent tube as a guaranteed cure for sore eyes. The creamy snow white ointment is pitched with risk free promise and strong benefit claims.
An old advert promotes a drug claiming “5 or 6 doses” will cure chills and fever with a price listed as 5 cents. No further details on product name or manufacturer are provided.
Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey has satisfied users for over sixteen years in millions of homes. It treats coughs colds croup and bronchial troubles. Look for the bell on the bottle and buy wherever available.
J A Purcell of Charleston, a marble and granite dealer, is in the city and will take orders for monuments or for re lettering and cleaning old tomb stones. Orders left at D J Crowley's will receive prompt attention.
An editorial urges households to replace old fridges with sanitary models like the Frost Refrigerator to prevent illness from germs in milk water and food. It notes that even tile and glass lined units have flaws and warns of crevices and decomposing wood. It endorses the Frost as the sole hygienic choice and briefly mentions Williams Kidney Pills.
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