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Newspaper
Aiken Recorder
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1895
Page
1
Timely notice warns consumers about misleading imitations of Walter Baker & Co. chocolates and cocoas. The firm, founded in 1780, stresses its long history as largest purveyors of pure chocolate and urges buyers to request genuine Walter Baker products without chemicals.
Charleston visitors and residents visit friends in Aiken with names such as Annie Laurie Carrell and John R Bates. The cotton market closes firm at a set rate. Teachers and officials like Miss Mollie Arthur and Miss Ida Kennedy take new posts. Dr D A Teague opens a new drug store and repair work occurs at Highland Park Hotel prior to its opening. Rev W H Kueece to preach at Chita Springs church on the third Sunday at 6 PM.
A fragment evokes a wind mill as water scarcity themes arise with tired animals and lazy bands, seeking water at troughs as a boon.
J L Huss of 224 Green Br Varera Ga markets plants decorations ornamental plants and bulbs with choice rosebuds and cut flowers. Funeral designs are offered and customers in Augusta can inspect the extensive grounds and call for arrangements.
The Aiken Market shows cotton at 4 middling with froed middling per bashel while hogs hatted prices per pound per 100 pounds. Prices for sweet potatoes coffee sugar and sea products are listed with various per unit and weight measures.
Disjointed notes show Beech Island farmers awaiting a 30 year old teacher appointment at Deervanna School in Shiloh. Major Ed Hammond of Blackville visited Aiken and was nominated for a local position. Rev John R Dow to lead Divine service at Beech Island Presbyterian Church next Sunday.
Prolonged services at a Baptist church in Vaucous, led by Rev. T. EF Seago, draw local interest. Monthly Ladies' Monument Association meeting set for Miss Ford's on Monday at 4:30 PM. Obituaries note Dean in Augusta, Weathersbee in Silverton, Williams in Beech Island, and Knowles renting Mira Senna's cottage in Aiken. Public notices mention Columbia Club cases hearing and teacher examinations in Aiken County.
The constitutional convention resumed on Tuesday 15th with debate over abolishing special legislation for local governments and over a proposed 1916 and every twentieth year referendum on holding a new convention. Discussion touched on race in the declaration of rights and amendments to include one eighth negro blood, with adjournment after memorial resolutions for a deceased member.
Mrs. M. Fowler of Anderson plans a sanitary sausage plant using an electric powered lard caldron meat chopper and stuffer. The venture could meet a large wartime demand producing up to 30 000 pounds weekly and nearly 900 000 pounds monthly, contingent on healthy pork and thorough inspection.
A Confederate Veteran retpot tier Mire freedom Penitvessee, Titshop gouintard of the Episcopal Church praised Governor Turtey's Chattanooga speech. He proclaimed faith in Jesus Christ and said support for the Confederacy was constitutionally right, receiving enthusiastic applause.
The complete staff of the South Carolina Division United Confederate Veterans is announced. Col. James G. Holmes named adjutant general and chief of staff, with Col. E Scott Gagon as inspector for general, E P Waring as quartermaster general, George Bo Lake as commissary, N Moore as surgeon general, Robert W. Shand as judge advocate general, Rev H Elwell as chaplain, and several majors listed with Charleston Columbia Rock Hill Greenville and Marin as stations. By order of Maj. Gen. C I Walker. James G. Holmes, Adjutant General B C Div UC V.
The New York World argues that cotton at nine cents versus under five shifts wealth and political power in the South. High prices reduce calls to topple parties, while low prices spur unrest and Populist influence. sustained nine-cent cotton could erode populist political activity next year.
The inquest jury announced Constable J J Moseley died from a gunshot wound inflicted by Tom Pataras and others. Venera Ray Henry Jackson and Andrew Palmer were moved to Abbeville jail under guard as tensions ran high. The Abbeville court opens this week to try the case amid past regional violence.
The South Carolina convention adopts to towns authority to exempt newly established factories from municipal tax for years. South Carolina shows industrial progress despite troubles.
Hood's Pille praised as the best Ye per box in the fragment, noting strong satisfaction with the product line. Limited readable context prevents further specifics on form or usage.
I was taken with the la grippe and given up by physicians. After using Dr King’s New Discovery from W J Platt’s Drug store, I improved after the first doses and after three bottles was restored to health. It’s worth its weight in gold and we won’t keep store or house without it. Free trial offered at the drug store.
An old advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a universal headache remedy with claims of permanent cures and bowel benefits. Bucklen's Arnica Salve is promoted for cuts and skin ailments. The text includes testimonial rhetoric and a prompt to ask druggists for a circular.
A garbled advertisement text touts Johnson's Oriental Soup as delicate facial soap that leaves skin soft. It also promotes Platt's Liver Regulator and Simmons Liver Regulator as tonics to aid digestion and liver function amid misspellings and unclear phrasing.
Emphasizes a blood disorder linked to kidney failure to purge impurities from tissues around joints and muscles. Claims P.P. purifies blood, with toxperience and science endorsing it as the only infallible purifier.
A disorderly liver causing jaundice biliousness indigestion flatulency and dyspepsia is said to clear up with Johnson's Kidney and Liver Regulator. The remedy is claimed to correct liver function and relieve related ailments.
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