Murder at Brook Green on Waccamaw River Planting
Report reaches with details of a fatal assault near Brook Green on the Waccamaw river. Agnes Young and Ella Cade, about 15, quarreled in a Lachicotte field then parted. Early Tuesday Agnes failed to appear. Dye Cade, Ella’s mother, allegedly beat her to death with a heavy stick on the road.
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Brook Green
Waccamaw River
Agnes Young
Ella Cade
Claude Lachicotte
Dye Cade
Ellen
Agnes
Slavery Shared View in Georgetown Election Debate
The Georgetown Times quotes a speaker asserting slavery existed in the city and urging voting for Bryan as Democratic choice for president, while noting that any voter can support Taft if they wish. The piece reflects party loyalty and tensions around the upcoming election.
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Bill
Bill Bryan
Bill Taft
Georgetown
Bryan
Taft
Teachers Meeting of County Association at Court House
The county teachers association holds a meeting at the Court House on Saturday October 31 at 12 oclock. President O M Mitchell of the Union Graded School presides. Officers for the present scholastic year to be elected and discussion topics selected. Mrs Mattie B Price sec and treas urges strong attendance.
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County Teachers Association
Court House
O. M. Mitchell
The
Union Graded School
Mattie B. Price
Sec
Treas
Ten Nights in a Barroom at the Rink
Ten Nights in a Barroom a drama in five acts staged at the Rink last night by a fully local cast under the auspices of the Colored Baptist Church with Mrs A A Smith as manager and A L Wilson as pianist. The concluding acts are set for tonight and are expected to be equally engaging.
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Colored Baptist Church
A. A. Smith
A. L. Wilson
Dry Goods and Novelties at Attractive Steele-Moses Prices
Found on a fiat 14 by 30 feet at the mouth of Sampit river on Sunday in October. Owner can recover by paying expenses. John Balock, 9 Front Street.
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Steele-Moses Company
Fiat
Sampit River
Cam
John Balock
Front St
One of the Sufferers Seeks School Traffic Relief
Samuel Sparks writes to the Daily Item questioning how to stop Winyah Graded School students from crowding the street and blocking access. He warns of property damage and potential injury or death from wagons and vehicles amid morning school activities.
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Winyah’Graded School
Samuel Sparks
Night Rider leader confesses implicates dozens in Reel Foot killings
Ted Burton testifies at Tiptonville jail detailing night rider outrages near Reel Foot Lake. He implicates about 40 men, most in custody at Camp Nemo, describes influence over the mob that seized Captain Quentin Rankin and says leaders included Tom and Garret Johnson and William Watson. Burton helps burn a Samburg fish wharf and cross into Lake County to whip Justice Winn.
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Tiptonville
Tenn
Ted’? Burton
Reel Foot Lake
Quentin Rankin
Trenton
Rankin
Camp Nemo
Samburg
Hains
Harris
Cleveland Donelson
Burton
Capt. Rankin
Walnut Log
Tom
Garret Johnson
Wm. Watson
Night Rider
Reel Foote
Lake
Winn
Bigamist Family Tangles Brooklyn Matrimony Chaos
Mrs. Davis Seidel seeks divorce amid a saga of four admitted bigamous marriages within her family. She had wed George Longeill Sr and later his son George Longeill Jr while he was still her husband, then married Jr to Ada, his half sister and her daughter. The web widens as Ada and Jr. wed, Seidel deserts, and new affairs unfold across multiple households.
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Davis Seidel
Grand Street
Brooklyn
Seidel
George Longeill
George Longeill, Jr
Ada
Geo. Longeill, Jr
David Seidel
William Longeill
Brooklyn Supreme Court
George, Jr
Jersey City
George
William
Theodore
Sarah
Longeill
David
Staten Island
Forty-third Street
State Fair Visit Draws Citizens To Sampit City
The State Fair at Columbia draws many visitors from Sampit with twenty citizens noted departing earlier. Mess. John Will, J. F. Detyens, and two county officers W. T. Turbeville and M. H. Thomas left for the city this morning.
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Columbia
Sampit
John ‘Will
J. F. .Detyens
W. T. Turbeville
M. H. Thomas
Five Black people hanged in Louisiana for deadly attack
Dispatch from New Orleans reports on a Friday hangings tied to a massacre that killed seven. The five Black individuals linked to the Council of God sect attacked Officer Cambias in New Orleans during a sect meeting, fatally injuring him and others while causing multiple deaths within their own group.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Robert Hall
Plaquemine Parish
Ernest Montgomery
Vermillion Parish
Edward Ayles
Rapides Parish
Robert Cambias
Edward Horne
Jacques Pierre
Council of God
Cambias
Watts and Mallory Succeed Watts and Broughton Firm
The Watts and Broughton partnership in the Enterprise Woodward and Junk business is dissolved. G F Mallory purchases L L Broughton’s interest and the business will operate as Watts and Mallory under the original terms.
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Watts & Broughton
Woodward and Junk Business
G. F. Mallory
L. L. Broughton
Watts & Mallory
G. W. Watts
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Waccamaw
Amateur Colored Association
Highmarket Street
Daily Item
Cine
Iseman Drug Company
Georgetown, S
Dancing
Mamie Doyle
Copartnership
M. L. Aliman
Eaddy Livery Stables
Brazilian Optical Company
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