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Thirsty Sumterites were heartened by the Thursday, April 13 page one headline: “Real Beer Makes Appearance Here.” The story revealed that the “real beer” was being displayed openly at several places in town. However, the story went on to …
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3/29/08 08:00 PM
The community-wide campaign to raise $5,000 to cover the Sumter YMCA’s estimated 1933-34 budget continued with a “media blitz” during the week. Two full-page ads appeared in The Item. One contained the names of local merchants endorsing the …
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3/22/08 08:00 PM
A Florence general sessions court jury found Sumter man George B. Sibert, 22, not guilty of murder March 28 for his role in a fatal car collision on Sunday, Oct. 31, 1932, near Florence in which two passengers died from their injuries. A coroner’s …
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3/15/08 08:00 PM
As the national “bank holiday” began to ease nationwide, Sumter’s second bank opened for business, following the lead of the National Bank of South Carolina earlier in the week. With a page one headline trumpeting “Depositors Pour Money Into …
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3/8/08 07:00 PM
Correction: In last Sunday’s column we mistakenly identified a Sumterite who attended the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as Dr. Carl Renfrow. His correct name was Dr. Fred Renfrow. Our apologies for the error.
Although the state banking …
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3/1/08 07:00 PM
Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the oath of office as 32nd president of the United States on Saturday, March 4. In his inaugural address, he declared: “This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. No need …
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2/23/08 07:00 PM
The Sumter YMCA Green Dragons men’s basketball team completed a very successful season by winning the state championship in competition with other YMCA teams within the state and in North Carolina. The final game during the week against the …
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2/16/08 07:00 PM
President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped harm when a would-be assassin fired several shots at him and his party while on a visit to Miami, Fla., on Feb. 15. Five people were wounded by the gunfire, the most serious being Chicago Mayor Anton …
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2/9/08 07:00 PM
The war of words over the cutting of trees in Sumter reached fever pitch during the week. The board of directors of the Sumter Rotary Club passed a resolution protesting the City of Sumter's tree-cutting activities. It called on Sumter City Council …
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2/2/08 07:00 PM
A letter to the editor addressed “To The Older Citizens of Sumter” appeared during the week, signed by 63 high school students who protested the removal of trees by city workers. The letter stated that “A visitor’s first impression of Sumter …
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1/26/08 07:00 PM
By the end of the week, Sumter City Council in a special meeting hired a new city manager. S.K. Rowland, a well-known businessman and a resident of Sumter for more than 20 years, replaced Robert L. McLeod, who resigned last spring to accept a …
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1/19/08 07:00 PM
Mayor F.B. Creech took charge of Recorder’s Court on Monday in the absence of Recorder Harby and “made short work of the case against 12 gamblers who were arrested Sunday afternoon in raids on Bee Street and Council Street by Chief Owens and …
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1/12/08 07:00 PM
The South Carolina General Assembly convened during the week to face “graver problems probably than any legislature since Reconstruction,” according to the Associated Press story. Among the problems were “perplexing questions of finance such …
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1/5/08 07:00 PM
The big news in Sumter and nationwide was the death during the week of Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States. He died in bed on Jan. 5 at his home in Northampton, Mass., from heart disease. He was 60 years old and the only surviving …
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12/29/07 07:00 PM
Prominent Pinewood resident Richard Charles Richardson, 59, died at Tuomey Hospital after an illness of several weeks. The page one story noted that he was born in Clarendon County, the son of Henry Burchell and Mary Hampton Richardson, “and came …
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12/22/07 07:00 PM
Insisting he did not deserve to die, Sumter night watchman O.E.S. Howell was electrocuted at the state penitentiary on Friday, Dec. 16, for the murder of filling station operator E. Hart Williams on June 18, 1930. Howell at his first trial (there …
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12/15/07 07:00 PM
In a story headlined “Roosevelt Opposed To The Saloon,” The Item reprinted an exchange of letters between local chiropractor Dr. A.D. Plowden and New York governor and president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Plowden’s letter was sent during the …
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12/8/07 07:00 PM
According to a page-one story, Clarendon County law enforcement officers were searching Yoeman's Millpond, 12 miles northeast of Manning, for the body of Herbert Thigpen, a sewing machine and radio salesman from Olanta. Thigpen was allegedly …
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12/1/07 07:00 PM
“Thanksgiving Day Passes Peacefully in Sumter County,” read the headline following the annual observance. According to the story on the day after (The Item does not publish on Thanksgiving Day in keeping with long-established tradition), …
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11/24/07 07:00 PM
In a two-day trial that was featured on the front page, Donald Stokes of eastern Sumter County was found not guilty in the shooting death last December of Hoyt Wilson after jurors deliberated less than an hour before reaching their decision. Stokes …
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11/17/07 07:00 PM
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