Local Postage Change and Community News Highlights
The notice announces December 1 rate changes for local letters to two cents per ounce and predicts no one cent letters. A Georgetown City Band concert is set for 8 p.m. at the Tourist Hotel. Local items mention a female Chicago police officer, remarks about gambling, ads for Westbury's oysters, Parnell Furniture Co. sales, church baptism, the death of Mr. E T Siau, and funeral plans. Additional notes cover Dr Desportes’s trip to Ridgeway, S C, Thanksgiving in Charleston, a stork delivery in Georgetown, a goose killed on the way up, and holiday store activity. Official memorandum reports the resignation of Henry Schachte as colonel of the Third Regiment. the governor will appoint a successor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parnell Furniture Co
Baker Roberts
J. W. Folk
South Island
Georgetown
J. P. Leonard
Bamberg
Co. F. 3d Infantry
Henry Schachte
Ingo mar the Barbarian to Be Staged at Opera House
Arrangements are complete for the comedy drama Ingo mar the Barbarian to be presented Tuesday night at the opera house by Mr and Mrs Edward D Oize with Edward Clark and a strong local cast. Proceeds go to the Ladies Benevolent Society and the event is touted as a memorable entertainment with elaborate costumes and stage settings.
If I Should Die Tonight The Six Beers Across My Frame
A humorous elegy on dying with thirty cents and six large beers unspent. The speaker imagines those beers being wasted on others and laments the melancholy of missing a final drink. The poem closes with an absurd sales pitch urging daily subscriptions to The Item.
Double Tragedy in New York Hotel Whittley Kills Wife Then Commits Suicide
John Whittley a Brooklyn merchant and Reliance Door Company vice president killed his wife with two pistol shots as she slept on the ninth floor of the Pelleclare Hotel and then leaped to his death in the street. A blood stained note and exhausted bank funds suggest financial troubles may have driven the act.
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New York
John Whittley
Brooklyn
Reliance
Pélieclare
Broadway
77Th Street
Whittley
A Much Married Girl
A South Norwalk teen in New York dispatch dies young after a spree of four marriages. She wed three men in one week before fifteen, including a tattooed circus husband, with two unions later voided for age. She later married Edward Dauchery and joined the Salvation Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
South Norwalk
Conn
Minnie Dauchey
Peter Strum
Edward Dauchery
Salvation Army
Fatal Shooting Follows Threat in Albany Drug Store
Jeff Spires of Miller County was shot and killed by Dr. B V Elmore in Elmore's Kestler drug store after Spires threatened R E Elmore with a knife at the throat. Spires died about twenty minutes later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany, Ga
Jeff Spires
Miller County
B. V. Elmore
Kestler
Spires
R. E. Elmore
Younger
Elmore
Buchan's Cotton Bloom Soap Ad Sells By Mail
An advertisement offers Buchan's Cotton Bloom soap for ten cents in stamps. Send a cake to Buchan's Soaps Corporation at 225 Fifth Ave New York City for delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchan’s Soaps Corporation
Fifth Ave
New York City
Buchan
Buchyan’s Soaps Corporation
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Chicago
Doc’’ Owens
Westbury
The
Baptist Church
E. T. Siau
Meeting Street
Siau
Dr.Desportes
Ridgeway
S. C
J. T. Adams
Charleston
Joe Cannon
Wall Street
Col
H. B Springs
3D Infantry
D’g Co
Bohemians Plaint
D. S
Opera
E. G. Haselden
Miss Grace Pickert
the Belle of
Richmond
Cannon
Duke and
Highmarket Street
Orange Street
J. H. Fraser
Agt
Fours
Poniatowski
P. O
Prince St
E. J. Marcus & Co
Washington
Green Grocery
A. Washington
Front Street
J. E. Altman
A. H. Lucas
Robt
Shuford
A. Fl. Lucas & Go. Brokers and Commission Merchants
Armour Packing Co
S. Eg
Brilles & Bro. CO
S.brilles & Bro.Co
Brilles
S.brilles& Bro. Co
Front St
Iseman Drug Co
Louis Riff
Bourke
Fralley
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