19 Apr 1899
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1899
Page
1
A dated notice argues against credit stores by claiming customers pay hidden losses from bad debts. It urges shoppers to buy clothing, hats, and furnishings strictly with cash, asserting cash buyers incur no losses and that money back guarantees are available. The message frames credit as unfair and urges consumer duty to income.
An advertisement highlights discounted suit prices, listing various original prices and our lower sale prices such as $8.00 to $7.50 and $10.00 to $8.50, $22.00 to $10.00, $15.00 to $12.50, suggesting substantial savings to shoppers.
Gen George Moorman issues a circular calling Ex Confederates to organize locally and attend the United Confederate Veterans Reunion in Charleston from May 10 to 13 1898. He urges aid to veterans widows and orphans, grave decoration, and a monument to Jefferson Davis, with Wheeler to deliver the opening oration and thousands of camps seeking admission and papers to participate.
Reese Hutchison, Auburn College graduate, exhibits a pocketbook sized apparatus in Mobile that augments vibrations to help deaf mutes hear spoken words and music. An audiphone sits at the ear while deaf volunteers stand fifty feet from a piano and gauge the tempo with evident delight.
Miss Helen Morris Lewis, an up-to-date Asheville woman, announces herself as a candidate for superintendent of the Asheville waterworks, while the piece humorously discusses local gallantry and future street-cleaning plans. The page also warns against mercurial catarrh treatments and advertises cheap printing services and catalogues.
A Indianapolis narrative on B. Gifford’s swamp land enterprise in Jasper County shows 75 miles of ditches and hundreds of miles of tile drains yielding over 1,000,000 bushels of corn and 400,000 bushels of onions. The piece urges North Carolina to study his methods to reclaim state swamp lands, suggesting commissions investigate and possibly apply similar drainage to boost agriculture and rail connections. It notes that Indiana sold swamp land cheaply and portrays the potential for broader regional adoption and even uses of convict labor for drainage projects.
Readers weigh a century of weather with old diaries and the Monthly Weather Review, arguing whether winters have warmed or cooled. While a 1849 storm killed vegetation across Georgia and the Carolinas, modern observers note persistent cold snaps and a drift of the frost line southward, though official data suggest overall climate stability with occasional harsh periods. The piece cites Secretary Wilson’s orange tree frost resistance trials and a Bourbon County distillery raid, highlighting local reactions to changing seasons and enforcement actions.
State news item notes the Citadel Cadets will hold their annual encampment in Orangeburg. Other items report Adaline Lindsay’s death at 102 in Due West, tobacco experiments in Orangeburg, slow recovery of Governor Ellerbe, and engineering work on the Congaree River preparation to deepen its channel.
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