Tillman Opposes Taft Visit Banquet Charge
Colonists recall Senator Tillman criticizing a $10 a plate banquet for President Taft in Columbia South Carolina. He denounced the plan as contrary to Southern hospitality and refused to attend, praising free hospitality and condemning the paid luncheon as a disinnovative practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
South Carolina
Taft
Tillman
Chamber of Commerce
Senator
Roanoke Times
Railroads Install Richmond Dispatch Telephone System
The Atlantic Coast Line will soon activate a telephone train dispatching circuit from Richmond to South Rocky Mount a distance of 121 miles. Dispatcher will be in Richmond with 32 search stations and 2 local stations in the chief dispatcher and superintendent offices. Western Electric equipment and Gill selectors used. three other lines ordered circuits from Richmond in six weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Coast Line
Richmond
Virginia
South Rocky Mount
North Carolina
Western Electric
South
Western Electric Company
Chesapeake & Ohio
Fredericksburg & Pototiac
Seaboard Air Line
Funeral services for Mrs May S Congdon
The remains of Mrs May S Congdon who died in New York last Monday morning will arrive in the city Saturday morning. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at Duncan M E Church at 3 o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May S. Congdon
New York
City
Duncan M. E. Church
Survivors of Hestia wreck recount 38 hours in rigging
Eastport investors report six men rescued from the stranded steamer Hestia after forty one aboard the Donaldson liner struck Proprieter Ledge off Seal Cove Grand Manan Island. Three bodies were found ashore in Nova Scotia while the survivors describe no water or food during the abandonment and long rigging delay. Captain Newman led a crew of 35 with two boys and three cattlemen aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastport
Proprietor Ledge
Seal Cove
Grand Manan Island
Nova Scotia
Yarmouth
Salmon River
Steward
Hestia
Keene
Newman
Poor Preacher's Plant Sends Him To Chaplaincy
A Kansas preacher delivers a parting sermon to his congregation joking about lack of salary and gifts. He quips that he goes to the chaplaincy of the penitentiary to prepare a place for their coming, finishing with a tongue in cheek farewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Heaven
Poisoned by Fish at Athens Female College
Miss Mary N. Moore president of Athens Female College in Alabama reports that 45 of 175 students fell ill with probable botulism from fish. Tennessee State bacteriologist and Dr Cunningham Wilson of Birmingham concur the illness is not serious and a holiday was advised amid the investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Athens Female College
Athens
Mary N. Moore
Bessemer
Tennessee
Nashville
Cunningsoot Wilson
Market Reports Show Mixed Commodity Quotes
Market notes list cotton middling at 137 cents, corn 95, meal 1.85, feed oats 55 to 60, and various D. S. prices for hog products and rice. Turpentine markets in Georgetown are reported as absent, while Bourne & Co. provides quotations for Virgin, Old Dip, Scrape, Tarin oil, Rosin NY, and Spirit Turpentine at 5.84.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. S
Georgetown
Messrs Bourne & Co
Rosin
Won't Give Up The "Rats" At Erasmus High
Two thousand girls at Erasmus High School Brooklyn held a mass meeting to defy an assistant principal edict banning rats and puffs in hair. They pledged not to obey the rule and to support schoolmates who opt to wear the styles. Faculty officials stand firm, signaling a possible clash with students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Erasmus High School
Brooklyn
Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets Promised Relief and Assurance
An advertisement asserts 95 percent of diseases originate in a disordered stomach and promotes Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets as a fast-acting, healing cure for indigestion and chronic dyspepsia. It claims immediate relief, improved appetite, and nutrition with a money-back guarantee. Available in 25, 50 cent and $1.00 sizes from The Georgetown Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rexall
Georgetown Drug Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
Roanoke
Market Reports
Dunmore
P. O. Box
Georgetown, S.C
Phenix Furniture Co
Stan
American Live Stock Insurance Co
J. A.hemingway
J. A. Bruorton
H.d.munnerlyn & Co
Choppee
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!