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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1907
Page
4
Notice indicates a Georgetown South Carolina post office item entered as second class matter on July 25, 31907 under the 1879 act.
A telephone message from Mr. Whitford says yesterday’s criticisms of the Sandsucker Winyah Bay were unfounded. He notes daily remuneration to the Engineering Department and bank deposits for work, with a fuller statement to follow for public information. TheBay boat is currently on the ways at Charleston.
A Washington official describes a new post office where the postmaster, a local grocer, kept all mail in a bag une sent because the bag was not yet considered full. An inspector later investigated the claim of no outgoing mail.
Attorney General Bonaparte replies to inquiries that he knows of no plot by Wall Street financiers to oust him and that he has no plan to resign. He notes he has leased a Washington apartment for another year starting October 1 and expects to remain in office.
In Lynchburg Virginia Joseph Peples a farmer ten miles from the city was shot and badly wounded by his wife following a domestic quarrel. She beat him and tied a wire around his body then dragged him with a mule into the woods where the corpse was later found. She was arrested in Bedford City jail claiming self defense.
A brief note advertises the Photograph Post Card men offering outside work to groups and views with pricing 12 for 1 dollar 5 00 per 100 and 30 00 per 1 000 and lists A P OG 5 3 cents Webb at Carolina Hotel dated 8 31.
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