22 Apr 1896
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1896
Page
1
The store reports sales up more than double last year and claims fair dealing with good goods and superb fits. It advertises suits from 5.00 to 20.00 with full money back if not satisfied. Straw hats and men’s furnishings are heavily stocked as part of a value driven sales pitch.
A South Carolina letter to the editor argues that preachers must assail lynching and whiskey as twin evils. The writer compares society to a storm, urges pulpit thunder against crime, and presses the News and Courier to keep preachers honest, voting for moral leaders and denouncing corruption in politics.
The speaker reflects on Cuban war cruelties seen in pictures and recalls Civil War suffering near Atlanta. He recounts a widow with three sons and two daughters whose deserter son Charley risked return to aid them, only to face brutal evacuation and loss as Sherman’s forces approached.
Ex mayor W W Gilreath was found fatally shot in his Gilreath Durham company office at 7 am after weeks of nervous prostration and liver trouble. A prominent banker and politician, he served as county treasurer and mayor, contributing to Main street macadamization and church work. He leaves a widow. The State.
John D. Kennedy died at 1 o'clock this morning in Camden after a vascular illness and prior duties. A veteran soldier and prominent lawyer, he endured many wounds in the Civil War and held multiple offices including lieutenant governor and grand master. Interment will be tomorrow in the Quaker Cemetery family plot. The obituary notes his birth January 5, 1849, in Camden and a long public career. The piece also mentions a Knoxville bridge to be built of pink marble with a 240 foot arch and a 50 foot roadway.
A 1894 sworn statement from Charles Hy Wetzel of Sunbury Pa notes walking on crutches to Melick's drug store on May 11 and purchasing Chamberlain's Pain Balm for inflammatory rheumatism which allegedly cured him after three Vollies Imm doses, with a notarized affidavit by Walter Ship. For sale at fifty cents per bottle.
Reverend Edward Horton urges open window thinking to hitch the wagon to a high purpose. He links horizon, courage, faith, and biography to a religion of broad outlook, warning against mind’s shut windows and champions progress, hope, and unity through a large perspective.
A Richmond Dispatch column extols Gen Stephen D. Lee, lauding his artillery and cavalry leadership, governance of Mississippi colleges, and postwar character. It notes his capture by a Columbus woman, political service, and esteem in Mississippi, alongside anecdotes and brief society items from 19th century life.
A fragmentary humorous piece contrasts a boy’s carefree days with a full grown man’s burdens. It sketches cherry eating, baseball, and long days of play, then imagines the hazards and misadventures of adulthood, ending with a satirical note on aging and pain.
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