New Steamboat Bought for Columbia Georgetown Route
The New York Columbia and Georgetown Steamboat Company added a second freight steamer for the Georgetown to Columbia service using the Esther ville Minim canal and Santee and Congaree rivers. Manager J W Smith contracted the vessel in Savannah. details are unavailable as he is away. A leased boat Burroughs operates Georgetown to the Santee Congaree confluence, with draft restricting access to Columbia.
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Columbia
S.C
New York, Columbia and Georgetown
Georgetown
Estherville-Minim Ship Canal
Santee River
Savannah
J. W. Smith
Burroughs
Wright brothers to build airship plant near Springfield Ohio
Orville and Wilbur Wright plan a park for testing airships on 700 acres northwest of Tippecanoe City and will open an aeroplane factory plus a steamship propeller works. The site aims to employ about 300 workers within the year.
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Springfield
Miami Valley
Tippecanoe City
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Laurens Woman Shot Near Georgetown Is Ruth Crisp
Mrs. Big ham formerly Miss Ruth Crisp daughter of Matthew Crisp of Cross Hill County Cross Hill is noted as the murdered Laurens woman shot Saturday night near Georgetown in a mysterious case.
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Laurens
Takes the Wet Goods and the Charleston Beer Bluff
A Charleston tale describes the blind tiger practice of using famous names to obtain liquor as a gentleman finds a barrel of export beer on his porch that he did not order. He opens it to take a dozen buds for icing, then learns the driver delivered it by mistake but the culprit never appears. The piece notes the scheme may end with a new plan to keep the gratuitous beverage.
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Charleston
The Daily Item Ad Blurb
The Daily Item offers afternoon delivery for ten cents per week. This brief notice highlights the newspaper’s pricing and delivery cadence.
State Fair Horse Races Offer Record Purses In Columbia
Columbia South Carolina Sept 8 Special the State Fair races promise high class competition as the Palmetto Fair circuit attracts top trotters and pacers from Galax Virginia and other circuits. Four days of racing will feature purses totaling 6500 with free stables and lodging but barred are colored drivers and jockeys.
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Columbia
S.C
Galax
Radford
Tazewell
Roanoke
Lynchburg
Winston- Salem
Greensboro
Raleigh
Charlotte
Augusta
R. C. Keenan
Tidal Wave Destroys Soto La Marina Town
Mexican Herald reports Soto La Marina Tamaulipas wiped out by Gulf storm with only church towers visible above sea. Rescue parties report tents on a hill as life dwindles. Sonora steamer left Tampico for the area.
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Mexico City
Soto la Marina
Tamaulipas
Mexican Herald
Tampico
Sonora
Donegan to Die in Chair in Trenton This Week
Richard Donegan condemned for the double murder in South Jersey faces execution by electric chair this week after Governor Fort rejected further clemency. His brother William, a Philadelphia policeman, plans a last appeal to the Governor on the eve of the execution. Donegan, crippled from injuries sustained fleeing the crime, will likely be carried to the chair.
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Trenton
Fort
Richard Donegan
South Jersey
William Donegan
Philadelphia
Donegan
Reading tombstones on God's acre of the poor wives
The speaker imagines inscriptions on grave markers of overworked women, noting their quiet virtues as they lie beneath daisies with hands folded. The reflection suggests the toll of labor and a critique of exhausting labor.
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God’s Acre
Dismembered Ann Arbor Woman Identified In Michigan Creek Murder
The body of Maybelle Millman, 27, of Ann Arbor, found in Ecorse Creek, shows signs of strangulation and surgery. Detroit and Ann Arbor police, with Martha Henning and Harry Millman, pursue clues as they shift the investigation to the University town.
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Detroit
Ecorse Creek
Maybelle Millman
Ann Arbor
Mich
Miss Millman
Martha Henning
Millman
Miss Henning
University Town
Harry Millman
Gaston
Maybelle
Henning
Signed with his Teeth in Indiana Marriage Case
Terre Haute Indiana September 6 James H Pickerell without arms refused the license clerk help and wrote the marriage application with the pen clenched in his teeth He joked about keeping his grandmother in Paris Illinois from knowing of his marriage to Nora Hare and planning to visit her in the future Pickerell lost both arms in a railroad crash sixteen years earlier at age ten
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Terre Haute
Ind
James H. Pickerell
Nora Hare
Pickerell
Paris
Tired of Laziness Man Found Dead by Hanging
Louis C Valentine a 60 year old house painter known in the No 191 Waverley Place New York neighborhood was found hanged in his room yesterday after years of illness from lead poisoning He kept over 5000 in bank deposits and left a will to Mrs George M Valentine Reading Michigan and a letter to his sister Mrs Josephine Taylor of 110 West 101st Street New York City
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Louis C. ‘Valentine
Valentine
Waverley Place
New York
George M. Valentine
Reading
Mich
Josephine Taylor
West One Hundred and First Street
Cigarette addiction drives man to lunatic episode in New Jersey
Henry Kendall, 21, from Hackensack, was deemed insane after heavy cigarette use and was taken to Morris Plains Asylum yesterday. He reportedly showed a colored newspaper supplement claiming a passport to hell via a white automobile and required three policemen to restrain him.
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Henry Kendall
Hackensack
N. J
Morris Plains Asylum
Hell
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