Georgetown notes and city life highlights
Local notices detail oyster sales at Westbury's Pool Room and property exchanges by Springs and Stau. Reports cover visits by C C Scurry, sick committee meeting at the Carolina Hotel, a Lucas house sale to D. F. Crawley at 3500, and various city arrivals and social events. Earthquake in Guatemala and a police matinee fine are also noted.
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Westbury
Messrs
Springs and
Stau
White’s Bridge
C. C. Scurry
Columbia
Carolina Hotel
Lucas
D. 4
Crawley
Georgetown
Proceedings in the State vs Shuford and Others
The State reports multiple criminal pleas and sentences. Shuford pleads guilty to larceny of livestock and is sentenced to 18 months. Blake defendants face larceny charges with a new trial motion. Richardson pleads guilty to house breaking and larceny with a two year chain gang term. Fields pleads guilty to five indictments and receives life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Anderson, George Thomas, McKnight, Green, Porter and others face varying charges and sentences including chain gang terms, fines, and periods of confinement.
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Shuford
Isaac and
Martha Blake
Andrew Richardson
Henry Fields
Joe Anderson
Geo. Thomas
Anthony McKnight
Thos. Green
John Porter
A Common Case of a Wall Street Family in Distress
A charity case interrogation reveals a Wall Street family's decline after stock shrinkage. A wife proudly mentions a few remaining diamonds and a daughter aged eighteen who handles minor tasks while the husband drinks and plays bridge. The scene ends with the narrator planning to report the case and consider the charity's response.
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Wall Street
Tus
Head Split Open by Wheel at Saw Mill
Barnwell November 4. News arrived around 3 today that Davin W. Hair was accidentally killed at his saw mill about 1 30. He pulled a timber from a carriage when the fly wheel splitter its head open and instant death. His brains were found fifteen feet away. Mr Hair was held in high esteem and regarded as a leading young man of Barnwell County.
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Barnwell
Davin W. Hair
Hair
Barnwell County
Marine Movements Include Freight Transfers On Several Vessels
Stmr Richmond and Norfolk with Barge Veneta from Baltimore bound for A C Lumber Co. Stmr Carib with Packard freight from New York to Clyde Steamship Co. Stmr Frank Sessoms with Sarvis freight from Bucksville to B A Munn erlyn & Co. Stmr Mitchelle C with Dusenbury cargo from Conway to Waccamaw Line Steamers.
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Stmr
Richmond
Norfolk
Veneta
Baltimore
A. C. Lumber Corporation
Carib, Packard
N. Y
Mitchelle
Dusenbury, Conway
Mdse
Waccamaw Line
Old Man Asks for Heavier Stamp at Mississippi Post Office
A Mississippi post office encounters an odd request when an elderly Black man brings a letter heavier than a single stamp allows. The postmaster explains the need for an extra stamp, and the man asks if an udder stamp would lighten it.
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Mississippi
Darkey
New Orleans Picayune
Boy Steers Ship After Captain Leaves On Starry Night
On a schooner a boy takes the wheel when the captain goes below. The captain says steer by a star, but the boy drifts off course. A star man calls from behind to find another star as the ship continues.
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Philadelphia
Roebling Wins Post Office By Stork Activity
Roebling New Jersey receives a post office after a citizen delegation reported nine-tenths of the town's 300 families welcomed births since the town's rise as a manufacturing center two years ago. Roosevelt dismissed rural free delivery and named A L Major postmaster after the petition. Forty two births in the last week cements Roebling as New Jersey's champion stork community.
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Roebling
N. J
Roosevelt
White House
A. L. Major
Death by own action shocks Springfield couple
Springfield, Nov. 3. Hearing two shots at 3 a.m. the Highland Hotel staff found Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Kirwan of this city wounded. The husband, 26, and wife, 28, had bullet wounds and told doctors at the hospital they had decided to kill themselves.
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Springfield
Mass
Highland Hotel
A. M. Kirwan
Kirwah
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Buchan
Daily Item
J. K Bourne, Sr
Sampits
Mrs. Laws
Springfield, Misouri
O. E. Emmerson
Dr. Clarke
Carver’s Bay
G. E. Scott
Harry Munnerlyn
The
Knights of Pythias
Lee
Mills
Guatamala
Episcopal Church
Court House
Thos. B. Hamby
Hamby
Jacksonville
Fla
West- Raley-Hamby Lumber Co
Georgetonian
Chas. Rutledge
Electrical Theatre
Court of Common
Madam TI
Marine News
D. S
Opera House
John B. Wills
Musical Comedy Co
Atlantic City
Eeefours Poniatowski
P. O
Louis Riff
Front
Buchan’s Soaps Corporation
Fifth Ave
New York City
J. L. Weinberg
Pete Rabil
Bourrough Merchant
Front Street
Peter Rabil
Crowley’s
Rilles & Bro. CO
S. Brilles & Bro.Co
Brilles
S. Brilles& Bro. Co
Brilles & Bro. CO
Front St
Iseman Drug Co
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