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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1907
Page
1
Daily items from Merino to Georgetown cover weather updates and forecasts, travel plans, visits, society meetings, sales, and local incidents. Highlights include the Ladies Home Mission Society gathering at the old Methodist Church, a charity raffle at Weinberg's store, and the Carolina Hardware Co shooting and fishing gear promotion.
A colonial youth saves two old men by denying fire as three pursuing soldiers attack in Orakan. He runs ahead and shields their retreat, kneels unarmed to fire again but does not shoot, dies as the trio escape into forest. The soldiers return to find him dead and the old men free.
Col J C Stribling of the Farmers' Union reports South Carolina leads Southern states in corn and cotton prospects this year. He notes August 15 averages place corn near 1814 and cotton about 27 points above last year, though recent heat trimmed yields. forecasts suggest corn above 17 and cotton around 10 points higher than last year. He cites price expectations rising from 147 to above 15 cents with strong early support from Palmetto State farmers.
St. Louis meteorologist Srl R. Hicks forecasts a disturbed September with multiple storm periods from the 4th to the 7th and again around the 9th to 11th. He predicts seismic shocks within forty eight hours of noon on the 7th and a crisis of magnetic unrest. Severe storms from the 14th to the 19th follow a northwest moving rain hail wind thunder pattern and cooling trend including probable frosts.
In Kankakee Illinois a film reel fire atop a roof near the street entrance sent about a thousand people into a panic. Shouts of fire caused a mass exodus with women and children knocked down, but no injuries occurred and the show resumed after extinguishing the flames.
Announcement declares Malatone a guaranteed positive remedy for malaria and hemorrhagic fever under federal law. Delivered worldwide on receipt of two dollars by The Metropolitan Drug Corporation in Charleston South Carolina. All rights reserved. 95, 72t.
Franklin Fire Chief B H Miller shot and killed J H Little in a Franklin police station cell. Little had eloped with Miller's wife, a prominent woman, and was returned there for trial. Detectives tracked them partly due to Little's missing thumb. Mrs Miller testified she was the runaway wife and wished to return home.
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