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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1909
Page
3
Cotton and corn prices listed with small varied futures and local grain notes. Items include turpentine quotations and a roundup of letters, rentals, deaths, retirements, travel, and civic ordinance actions in Georgetown South Carolina.
An extra meeting on September 14 1909 attended by the Mayor and Aldermen Colbert Harvey Andrews and Doyle approved last meeting minutes and paid numerous bills including Iseman Drug Co A. Page Standard Oil Co Georgetown Grocery Co and Baltimore & Carolina S S Co. An ordinance to amend an Or- ment.
Inland Empire Vineyard Company of Spokane plans a 250000 dollar capital project to build the United States largest wine and grape juice plant on the Clearwater and Snake rivers near Lewiston Idaho and Clarkston Washington. Jacob Schaefer as president and Albert Angermayer as manager project extensive vineyards with 5000 acres optioned and 2000 acres to be planted next year.
The article promotes electric lights as the only hygienic illuminant, claiming other lights harm air quality and increase diphtheria and tuberculosis risk. It touts electric lighting as heat free, quiet, convenient, safe, efficient, and cheaper, and advertises Electrical Contracting & Supply Co. with phone and address.
Lexall Orderlies praised for children and elderly use and described as candy like and non irritating. Money back guarantee offered if not satisfied. Available in two sizes rec. and 2c from Georgetown Drug Company Georgetown S C.
Miss Ramelle Nicholson, 12, daughter of the county education chief, was bitten on the right wrist while picking beans in a garden. She tore the fangs from the snake after it clung to her arm, sucked out the poison, and by evening was able to return to school. The snake, likely small, was later described as magnified in her memory.
Rev. Wallace M. Stuckey pastor of the Christian Church at Williamsburg Kansas and editor of the Williamsburg Star is jailed in Waukegan Illinois on a charge of abducting Lorena Southerland a 16 year old girl from Williamsburg. The girl is held for witness purposes and will be returned to her parents. The case mirrors the earlier affair of Rev. Revere Knode Cooke.
New York dated September 16 reports E H Harriman's will leaving all his property to his wife Mrs Harriman. The will designates her as executrix with no further directions on property use or disposition.
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