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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1927
Page
4
Announcement notes the Marion Beauty Shop relocating from 509-510 Marion Building to 728 1 2 Broad over Gardelle's Drag Store. It promotes offerings in beauty culture, marcelling, permanent waving, facial treatment and scalp care with a cordial invitation. Phone listed as 510.
Miss Lilly Godfrey relocates the Marion Tea Room to 728 1-2 Broad Street above Gar delle's Drug Store. The tea room opens offering meals to patrons in the new premises.
Beaufort County organized in 1768 covers 702 square miles with 22 269 residents in 1920 and an estimated 22 481 in 1925. The region features 52 miles of railroad, one accredited high school, a 290 day growing season, and a growing tourism road network including a new steel bridge over Combahee River and a Beaufort to Ladies Island link. Towns include Beaufort Bluffton Hardeeville Port Royal Yemassee and a historic rice and sea island cotton heritage. The area hosts a Marine base on Parris Island, rich early settlements, and a tradition of Thanksgiving memories.
Long before the Christian era Druids celebrated Thanksgiving to the sun for crops and a farewell to the sun for winter. The custom spread worldwide with variations. Israel had a corresponding day, while the Christian world lacked a fixed festival for centuries. The first Thanksgiving on this continent occurred in November 1621, a year after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. Fifty-one of the original one hundred had died during the year, yet the governor called for a day of Thanksgiving.
The line about installment collectors knocking at doors paints a rustic scene of debt pressure. It personifies Opportunity as an old man facing a difficult journey, hinting at financial strain and the persistence of creditors in a local plaza mood.
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