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EDITOR’S NOTE: The month of September is missing from The Item’s archives and microfilm. Therefore, we will continue to run additional news items from August 1933 for the remainder of this month and pick up with October on August 31.
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8/16/08 08:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE: The month of September is missing from The Item’s archives and microfilm. Therefore, we will continue to run additional news items from August 1933 for the remainder of this month and pick up with October on Aug. 31.
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8/9/08 08:00 PM
In a front page story headlined "Yeggmen blow open safe in Sumter plant," the Carolina Coca Cola Bottling Co. plant was burglarized over the weekend. ("Yeggmen" is a colloquialism for safecrackers or robbers.) The large iron safe at the plant was …
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8/2/08 08:00 PM
Sumter County was mobilizing to cooperate with the federal government program designed to put Americans back to work. Under the auspices of the National Recovery Administration (NRA), a campaign was scheduled to kick off on Monday, Aug. 21, with a …
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7/26/08 08:00 PM
The first bale of the new cotton crop in Sumter County was sold on Tuesday, Aug. 8, by Pinewood farmer Mendel Smith to O’Donnell & Co. for 9 ½ cents a pound. The cotton was ginned at the Oil Mill ginnery and it weighed 530 pounds. In connection …
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7/19/08 08:00 PM
Judge of Probate Thomas E. Richardson died at Tuomey Hospital on Thursday, Aug. 3, from injuries suffered from a fall at the Sumter County Courthouse steps on Monday that fractured his skull. The judge never regained consciousness after his fall. He …
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7/12/08 08:00 PM
Sumter merchants representing practically every business in Sumter met at the courthouse on Wednesday, July 26, and agreed to a 40-hour work week for its employees in accordance with the Roosevelt administration’s national recovery program, …
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7/5/08 08:00 PM
Sumter County was expected to reach its cotton acreage reduction quota in the federal government’s set-aside program by the end of the week, according to County Agent J.M. Eleazer. Applications for destroying approximately 14,000 acres had been …
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6/28/08 08:00 PM
The Fourth of July passed quietly in Sumter, according to The Item. The newspaper reported that Independence Day “passed quietly in Sumter with no disorders reported by the police department. The unseasonable coolness of the weather cut down …
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6/21/08 08:00 PM
Sumter County farmers began signing up in large numbers for the federal government's new acreage reduction program, designed to increase the price of cotton and restore prosperity to the nation. Approximately 3,000 acres in the county will be plowed …
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6/14/08 08:00 PM
The Lafayette Highway (Highway 401) will be closed for three weeks between the Sumter County line and Summerton while top-surfacing is laid on the last unpaved link of the highway. When the link is completed, the full length of Highway 401, which …
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6/7/08 08:00 PM
Workers at the Williams Veneer Co. and the Williams Furniture Factory went on strike Monday, June 12, complaining about low wages and demanding a 20 percent increase in pay. Strikers armed with clubs picketed the plants, vowing not to allow any …
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5/31/08 08:00 PM
East Coast Stages Co. was granted a license to operate passenger buses through Sumter on U.S. Highways 401 and 17 between the North Carolina state line and the Georgia state line. The bus line is expected to begin operation of the service on July 1, …
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5/24/08 08:00 PM
Sumter County’s first Farmer’s Day was celebrated on Saturday, May 27, with a mile-long “monster parade,” according to the front page story. Several thousand farmers were present for the event, which began at the Farmers’ Exchange building …
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5/17/08 08:00 PM
The long-awaited hearing before Special Master W.M. Shand of Columbia in the lawsuit of Ina Cartee against trustees of the estate of the late John K. Crosswell resumed in the Sumter County Courthouse on Wednesday, May 24, after a 10-day recess. …
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5/10/08 08:00 PM
Sumterites eagerly awaiting more revelations in the lawsuit brought against the estate of the late John K. Crosswell by a woman who claimed to be his common law wife were disappointed to read the following terse announcement on Monday, May 15, …
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5/3/08 08:00 PM
Memorial Day (Southern) was observed Wednesday, May 11, at Sumter. In a story headlined “Soldiers Of Lost Cause Are Honored,” it reported on an address by the Rev. H. Tucker Graham of Florence, whose subject was “The Right of Secession.” The …
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4/26/08 08:00 PM
Sumter was shocked and titillated by revelations stemming from a lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed to be the common law wife of the late John K. Crosswell, prominent local businessman who died in 1929. Ina Cartee was seeking a share in the …
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4/19/08 08:00 PM
Local merchants joined in the beer frenzy after the state Legislature approved the sale of 3.2 percent brew with an array of advertisements. Sumter Ice & Fuel Co. in its ad promoted Michal’s Beer “Brewed in New York City,” offering a wholesale …
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4/12/08 08:00 PM
Sumter’s thirst for beer continued unabated following its legalization by the state Legislature. On Monday, April 17, a story appeared headlined “Sumter Continues Beerless Today.” The story read: “Sumter continued practically without beer …
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4/5/08 08:00 PM
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