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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1909
Page
1
Judge Memminger in Columbia fined Juror J. D. Perry twenty five dollars and ordered forfeiture of his pay after he spoke with his clerk C. M. Dorn about the butcher business. Dorn was fined ten dollars. The other jurors' withheld pay was released.
Great Sells Floto Shows announce a Georgetown parade on October 9 featuring the Armour Grays prize team worth 25 000 dollars. Four hundred dapple gray horses pull floats and chariots while Shetland ponies and Rhoda Royal school horses delight spectators.
A gilded, devotional meditation on a mother’s enduring, selfless love despite aging and hardship. The prose emphasizes her reach beyond deathlike time, offering comfort to the afflicted, urging tender care and devotion to an aged maternal figure.
The steamer Katahdin reported passing the New York bound schooner Susie H Davidson in distress about 75 miles northeast of Five Fathom Bank light on Monday morning. The vessel carried lumber from Cheraw, S C, to New York and had departed Charleston last Sunday after loading at A C L mill docks.
A London paper reports Petrovicz, a famed Russian banker accused of a five million ruble deficit, was arrested in Spain with his daughter. He faces manslaughter charges after a scuffle left a Russian mortally wounded. Extradition will follow after his trial in Spain.
The article notes South Carolina’s growing cotton seed oil industry and its export reach. It cites Turkey’s post 1907 relaxation of oil duties, boosting American oil purchases, with 1909 shipments totaling about 750,000 gallons and local consumption rising as the state emphasizes cost savings and manufacturing growth.
Due to small attendance last Sunday the reorganization of the Baptist Sunday School is postponed until Sunday Oct 10 at 10 30 a m All church members are asked to attend to assist in the reorganization and for a church conference after Sunday school services H L Orvin Supt Sunday School
An advertisement touts electric light as hygienic and superior to other illumination. It claims electric lighting reduces heat noise and health risks from fumes, is cheaper, saves labor and time, and invites readers to wire their houses with Electrical Contracting & Supply Company.
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