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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1907
Page
3
Citizens protest the removal of the Government Sand sucker Winyah Bay from the port. Built to deepen the channel, the boat is needed year round for local work and funding practices for outside assistance are questioned. The assistant engineer is urged to defend local rights.
A letter complains that electric lighting in Georgetown fluctuates between bright and dim, damaging eyesight. It urges the Georgetown Electric Company to install more power for reliable, better service, noting especially the poor conditions on Saturday nights and citing a physicist's warning about electric lights.
In Wilkesbarre, Sept 2, infant child of Mrs John Federczak was electrocuted in her arms while she walked with another child beside her. The older child stumbled into a live wire, and the mother, in trying to save him, touched the wire and suffered severe shocks.
Mrs. Fred Williams severely injured and her seven year old son fatally hurt when a dynamite cap in the boy's hip pocket exploded during a spanking. The boy had slipped a percussion cap from his father's dynamite into his pocket while in a field. The blast tore a hip wound. the mother lost two fingers.
The body of Joe Campbell, a Black man, was found yesterday afternoon about 5 30 p m, roughly four hundred yards from the market dock where he drowned earlier that morning in the Sampit river.
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