04 Apr 1894
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1894
Page
1
The advertiser promises to fill orders and even improve value at the same price. Payments accepted by money order or check from $1.00 to $2.75 with express shipment and refund if unsatisfactory. Oxford Ties priced $1.00, $1.25, $1.75, $2.00, $2.50, and $2.75, urging readers to send money or visit.
A rural column shares practical farming tips on composting stalls and manure savings, corn planting strategies and staggered sowing. It notes weather shifts from 80 to 29 degrees, references local figures such as EW and Gov. Tillman, plus reflections on Proverbial verses and temperance debates impacting community life.
In a vivid Florida beach scene Miss Phebe Frazer shoots a shark to save an old diver near the Colonel Frazer home. The tale blends local color with seafaring danger, noting the shark’s great size and multiple rows of teeth while praising Miss Frazer's quick draw and bravery. The writer wanders through reflections on manners, travel plans, and a later rough humor about crows and farming.
A Georgia fruit dealer discovers a trusted Black worker named Zeke cannot withstand temptation as the first watermelons arrive. Despite pride in honesty, the man pleads to resign rather than risk theft, leaving the boss to choose the worker’s replacement and allow him to take produce home.
A Yankee and an Englishman exchange taunts about past wars and races at Saratoga and White Plains. The American boasts of beating opponents before admitting the Englishman recalls the Battle of White Plains, noting Americans showed little interest in that fight.
Caution against mercury containing Gatarrh ointments. Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and taken internally to treat blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Also notes first U S railroad line from Boston to Quivey opened in 1927.
The dry Colorado climate has petrified objects including a legendary figure, Wild Bill. In Telluride country the body rests under a sand heap where a scout located a stone image of Wild Bill wearing clothes and shoes. Scouts refused to disturb the tomb, while museum men eye it as a potential drawing card.
Robbers entered Basil D Hall's Great Bend home around midnight demanding $9,000 cash and valuables after Hall had sent the money to Ravenswood Bank. They bound and tormented him, holding a burning lamp to his hands and burning a chair. Hall finally surrendered $9,000, a gold watch, and other valuables, and says he can identify the men, who he believes will be arrested soon. A local aside notes Salvation Oil costs 93 cents and mocks trusting God with money.
The article explains chemistry as the study of how about seventy basic elements form compounds. It describes elements and molecules, chemical combination, and the impact of oxygen and other elements on matter, life, and the Earth, citing water, salt, quartz, and carbonic acid as examples.
Sam Jones arrived in Nevada to deliver a lecture at Moore’s Opera House. He spoke on whether the world is improving, arguing morality rises even as saloons and gambling fade from public thought. He noted a Nashville meeting with John J. Ingalls and joked about converting the set in one night.
The piece extols the American hen for breaking records in egg production with daily receipts reaching 118,702 cases over six days. It notes price declines from 17-40 cents to around 12-11 cents per dozen, urges pride in Western eggs from Indiana Iowa Missouri Kansas and Leghorn supply from the state, and contrasts hens with ducks and geese while predicting continued prolific laying and home-market focus. The article lauds industry resilience and warns against removing Canadian duties.
Tolls Catarrh Cure for sale by Wilhite and Wilhite boasts cures for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chilblains corns and skin eruptions with money back guarantee. Also notes price 24 cents per bottle and sale by Hill Bros. In the next war the German army will enter the field with over a million and a quarter infantry over 50 000 cavalry and more than 2 000 field guns.
A smattering of moral reflections, jokes, and anecdotes fill column items. Notes on faith, temperance, education, and social quirks run alongside brief curiosities such as tobacco grown in Texas, infant weights at a hospital, and a dramatic tale of a boy lured to drink by a gang.
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