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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1902
Page
3
A man returns home ruined and vows despair but his wife, calm and resolute, rejects entreaties to dwell on misfortune. She declares they will endure with dignity, asks for sewing, hums Newton’s hymn, and rebukes social vanity, her steadfast beauty outshining royal lists of history.
The cryptomeria is celebrated in Japan for wild groves and cultivated avenues. A famed fifty mile avenue from Naminda to Mik showcases a straight tree 130 to 150 feet tall and 12 to 15 feet in girth. Introduced to England by Fortune in 1844 from Shanghai. thrives in Chinese mountains too.
An examination contrasts U S wheat yields with Ireland and notes Ireland’s higher crop outputs for potatoes and barley. It argues farmers improve results when they are driven by pride and necessity, citing Irish farming as a model of diligence.
An aged writer laments the loss of the old time printer as modern journalism evolves. He recalls the printer’s encyclopedic skill, the path through the composing room, and compares past editors’ craft to today’s rapid, mechanized production. He fears Othello like fate for the craftsman’s place.
Blackwood's Magazine notes the French Academy's exclusive process requiring up to thirty nine in person visits to each member for admission. It explains the hurdle of securing twenty votes and the awkward social demands that deter worthy writers from joining.
Lord Orford notes Nicholas Vaux wore a purple velvet gown adorned with gold pieces valued at £3000 during Prince Arthur's marriage. In Henry VIII's era nobles flaunted white velvet gloves embroidered with gold, and at the Field of the Cloth of Gold many carried valuables on their backs. The extravagance led to poverty among lesser nobles.
A fragmentary clipping recalls Charles Wyndham's first stage appearance at John Wood's Lyceum in New York. The report notes stage fright and inexperience, highlighting a love scene where he mistimed his line, prompting amusement from the audience.
A Philadelphia Telegraph tale recalls a river crossing scam where a Jersey man, mistaken for Dooman Thompson's Joah Whitcombe, manipulates a gullible farmer. The impersonator flees with cash after a staged meeting, leaving the victim relieved yet poorer.
A Vicksburg authority compares 1900 and this year showing higher living costs for a worker and mule. Increased expenses from meal flour corn oats and hay raise the required cotton output from about 867 pounds to 1318 pounds per year, prompting a warning to raise own supplies and treat cotton as incidental cash crop.
A Panama physician recounts treating a 16 year old girl with dysentery last March. After failing remedies, he used Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, improving in eight hours and fully recovering in one week. Or Gray & Co. sold the remedy.
Roadmaster Fred Stevers of Brewers Virginia was shot and killed on a southbound Seaboard Air Line train near Middleburg after intervening in a dispute with disorderly Negro passengers who refused to leave the whites’ coach. Porter Jim Mitchell was wounded in the abdomen, three assailants captured, two fled into the woods, and Bloodhounds were sent from Weldon to aid the search.
In Greenville District D C on August 19 Garey Styles shot Walter McCarrell killing him and wounded Emmet Styles and Ernest McCarrell at Wilson's Store during a bounty campaign meeting. Styles was arrested after the shooting which occurred near the speaking area. A widow mourns a son in ill health while a Chicago gravediggers union delay burials pending wage issues.
The Anderson Fertilizer Company announces prize winners for the 1901 crop from Anderson and Pendleton areas. T. M. Welborn of Pendleton, S. C., claims first prize with 108,937 bushels from eight cores, plus another top yield claim. Allen J. Sullivan of Sullivan, D. C., also reports 1,084 bushels. M. B. Richardson of Pendleton takes second prize with 164 bushels per acre, and L. C. Dean of Dean, S. C., earns third prize for 154 bushels per acre and other categories.
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