17 Oct 1911
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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1911
Page
1
The New York World highlights attention to the Big series over elections while recalling deaths and denials by Owen Wister and Mark Twain. It jokes about costs, politics, and reform, naming Dr. Wiley, La Follette, suffragettes, and Governor Wilson with satirical asides on voting power and public life.
A special chamber of commerce meeting was held last evening in the Armory with President W. D. Morgan presiding. Minutes approved, a three member committee appointed to circulate a petition to raise funds for the National Corn Exposition, pulp and paper mill location discussed, and delegates pledged to the Deeper Waterways Association meeting in Richmond. The board endorsed a national board of health and prepared to organize a Civic League.
An advertisement touts AML Bowel Trouble relief with Dr Bell's Anti Pain claiming instant action. It asserts the product destroys disease germs stops inflammation and urges keeping a bottle at home with sale everywhere.
The docket lists State cases with sentences including murder to manslaughter five years on the county chain gang or penitentiary, adultery twelve months for Rosatta Hughes and Cumbee, assault with intent to kill six months on chain gang and $75 fine, larceny eight years in Lexington reformatory, house breaking and larceny, burglary true bill, violating dispensary law.
Broad way traffic paused as a woman sign painter worked in New York City. The crowd noted the novelty and recognized a growing field for women. She wore a shade hat, red hair, and an apron over a shirtwaist and skirt. Employers chose her bid for quality, not gender.
Carrots are highly valued for domestic animals though slightly less nutritious than potatoes. They boost weight yield, aid horses when not working, improve coats, and may enrich milk and butter color in cows. They also benefit sheep and slamps.
A pamphlet-style claim markets Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey as a universal cough remedy. Advertises a bell emblem on the bottle as proof of authenticity and genuineness, urging readers to seek the bell symbol for a genuine product.
Sutherland's Hagle Eye Salve offered at two cents promises to cure eyes and is pitched as a simple remedy. The ad emphasizes its eye curing claim and low cost.
Reports from across the state indicate widespread cotton caterpillar damage, with late cotton suffering more than old. Eggs hatch into striped caterpillars that web up into cocoons, yielding olive to clay yellow moths. Paris green, applied dry at 2 to 2 1/2 pounds per acre, is advised, using a simple wooden applicator and bags to measure the dose. caution is urged due to arsenic. W. P. Gee notes the method and timing, dated October 14, 1914.
An advertisement touts Dr Bell s Pine Tar Honey as a cure for coughs promising removal of doubt with one bottle. It stresses looking for the Bell brand on the bottle as proof of genuineness.
After Shaving use Dr Bell's Antiseptic Salve. It will prevent the face getting sore. It destroys germs and prevents contracting any disease. 25c. Sold everywhere.
A brief note promotes Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a remedy for persistent coughing. It claims a few doses stop the cough and encourages use to ease throat irritation.
Advertises Eagle Rye Salve as a painless cure for sore eyes, guaranteed. Sold for 25 cents per tube with claims of harmless effects.
Bellefontaine Ohio October 14 Benjamin G Allinger a Quincy four mill owner vanished for ten days then appeared in Stevenson Washington seeking his identity Chief Vermillion Lima Ohio returns letter from Allinger seeking clues The telegram from Sidney identifies him via tailor label Doctors call it one of the strangest memory lapses as relatives travel cross country to bring him home
News from Victoria dated October 15 reports devastating floods along the Yangtze near Klang Su and Yong Tse. Thousands starve as corpses drift, refugees flood Nanking, cholera and typhus rage, and peasant uprisings threaten Imperial forces. Food arrives but relief moves slowly.
Sore and skin condition relief claim for sores boils eruptions pimples blackheads and affections using Dr Bell s Antiseptic Salve priced at 25 cents and sold widely.
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