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Newspaper
Abbeville Press And Banner
Location
Abbeville, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1908
Page
10
The article advocates pure water for health referencing Dr H F Freeman and the Progressive Farmer. It explains two thirds of blood comes from water, warns of contamination, and urges cleaning wells, improving surrounding earth, and ensuring livestock and family drink clean water to feel and look better.
Gov Claude A Swanson telephoned Sheriff Lawler Thurman sentenced to be hanged at Norfolk for murder was respited to the 27th Inst to finish a life history Longest and Shortest Days cites times from London Bremen Stockholm Hamburg Dantelg St Petersburg Tobolsk Torne Norway Spitzbergen and Wardburg Norway with hours and months for extreme day lengths.
A Sumter dispatch reports the body of Weller Wedekind, age 8 or 9, recovered from a clay hole at the Sumter brick works. Two other boys, Darrell Lide and Archie Ledingham, about 9, are missing, believed drowned after an old boat overturned. A search party drags the hole as residents mourn the tragedy.
Senator Tillman criticizes the dispensary setup in Columbia and the funds being controlled by a state commission rather than the treasury. He suggests hidden politics, favors to banks, and questions why approved claims were not paid promptly while funds remained with banks.
A Sunday accident on a Greer pond involving Appalachee mills operatives ends in the drownings of Mrs. Augusta Keller and two of her children after the canoe capsized. Mr. J. B. White aided survivors and, after dredging, the bodies of Mrs. Keller, Mrs. Clack, and Mr. W. F. Bone were recovered.
A sensational shooting occurred in Asheville North Carolina last week when Miss Parseda Shelton shot Miss Ida Franklin in the breast through a door. The motive arose from enmity over a young man both women fancied after Miss Franklin allegedly talked about Miss Shelton.
W B Bonnington in charge of Sparks Circus advertising car was killed in the C and W C yard at Amherst Alabama late Wednesday afternoon. He was watching the truck pass when a steel disc on a rod struck him, severing the right side of his head. The account blends battlefield garb with tribute to a fallen leader, then shifts to a political column from The Springfield Republican arguing Kentucky senatorial politics and party dynamics.
The text attacks Rep Wanger for probing post office spending while alleging graft in Frank Hitchcock’s pay and urging scrutiny of Taft’s treasury funds. It cites political maneuvers, a Ohio Bridge Trust ruling, and notes Bryan’s appeal, with Gov Johnson backing Bryan as the strongest Democratic nominee.
A returning traveler describes the money changing trade. He recalls sorting coins from Italy and Latin America, noting many are demonetized, counterfeit, or overvalued by regions. He learned how money changers buy foreign coins at set prices and reship surplus abroad, with vast volumes moving yearly.
A description of fabrics made from unconventional sources including steel wool and limestone wool produced in electric furnaces. It notes iron cloth woven from steel wool, its use in tailoring, and a process that yields a white dry wool-like material. It also mentions cloth made from old ropes unraveled and processed into a rough durable fabric used by London tailors.
Fragmentary reminiscences recount how Queen Elizabeth I supposedly decreed roast goose for Michaelmas after a Sept 20 1689 voyage to Tibury Fort when a toast allegedly proclaimed Destruction to the Spanish Armada. The tale is presented as apocryphal but widely repeated in the period’s lore. Political chatter follows about Congress members and alleged graft.
The State urges asking for any desired candidate if not seen. The State warns against dispensary resistance to the last ditch. The public should prepare as the Thanes expose matrimonial scandals in divorce courts. THE News and Courier says Republicans ignore Nebraska and Minnesota. The New York Sun predicts Bryan will win Nebraska. A Los Angeles dispatch notes Democrats plan to nominate regional candidates to defeat Bryan. The Milwaukee Free Press notes the World’s courts present sixteen desirable Democratic candidates but no shift against Bryan.
The report notes Gov. Johnson backs Bryan while a Washington Democratic bureau favors Ex-Gov. Douglass of Massachusetts. The prevailing stance among Democratic leaders is that someone must beat Bryan.
A historical text touts dramatic cures for rheumatism claiming a single pill expels poisons from the body, sweeps out the disease, and “strike the root.” It denounces liniments as ineffective and notes dangerous tablets sold with sensational claims.
A historical ad promises $15 savings for organ buyers over the next 40 days. It touts $80 organs at 65 dollars and $90 organs at 75 dollars with terms: one third now, rest in 1908 and 1909. Readers are asked to request a catalog by mail.
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