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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1910
Page
3
A scattered page mixes market quotes for turpentine and flour with notices on advertising value and civic census drives. It also covers social news from Mayesville, health quips, a jail weight remark, fashion clearances, and local events including a fire department tournament and travel notes.
Local store advertises lawn and garden items with price ranges. Lawn mowers range 3.2 to 10 dollars, lawn swings 5 to 8 dollars, hoses sold by foot, nozzles from 35 cents to 1.50, sprinklers 75 cents and up, watering pots and rakes 10 to 50 cents, hand hoes 25 cents and up, hedge shears 75 cents to 3 dollars.
A full line of household and shop equipment including hammocks water coolers ice cream freezers fireless cookers Perfection oil stoves butter churns screen doors and windows offered for sale by local merchants.
The clipping mentions The Carolina Hardware Co with a full line of gents furnishings at Steele-Moses Co and notes arrivals from Charleston. It records an accident involving a car of Ward and Bourke caused by a faulty screw in gear housing, injuring a radiator, and references medical ads about Foley's Kidney Remedy.
Classified notice offers a property for sale and instructs applying to Mrs W B Wright at the corner of Orange and Prince streets in Vec. 6e The ad claims 5 or 6 doses of 66 will cure any case of chills and fever and lists a price likely missing.
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