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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1899
Page
1
The notice touts trading where friends trade for new suits, highlighting the growing Spot Cash feature that signals value to shoppers. It claims people learn they can come to us for bargains and fair trades.
They advertise savings from $1.00 to $2.50 on suits if paid in cash. The dealer claims rival stores cover losses through debt, while this shop has no bad debts or losses and thus can offer lower prices. They urge customers to pay cash to save money.
In Washington December 23 1899 reporters note the administration’s grip on Wall Street. A Treasury bid to buy 25 million in bonds, gold standard debates, Addyston Pipe Trust ruling effects, and Boers Transvaal news drive a fresh market panic. Banks recall loans as stocks sag and money costs surge, with Republican leaders blamed for aiding brokers ahead of the looming election. The piece also cites neutrality policy and foreign affairs shaping U.S. stance on Spain and the Transvaal.
A Columbia conference of South Carolina Prohibitionists appointed a five member committee to draft resolutions stating the group's view on liquor, to be sent to county prohibition leaders for approval or disapproval. The panel reaffirmed a general prohibition stance with limited medicinal, scientific, and sacramental exceptions and urged legislators to follow this principle.
Statewide items report poll tax misdemeanors, Florence fire devastation, a deadly tree fall in Florence County, and smallpox outbreaks in sixteen places across eight counties. It notes labor, mill expansion hopes, vaccination enforcement, a Senate visit, and county education plans.
Dr T G Kirkpatrick visited Monday to arrange for January practice settling in Lowndesville. Four doctors in town seen as a bad omen for a small community. Teachers dispersed to Abbeville Ridge Springs Anderson. Local residents include Miss Cavin Mount Carmel visiting Miss Lilly Huckabee. A Georgia woodworker joined Bowie Seawright shop. Hamilton now clerking for Sherard Bros. Draco.
Mr Richard Townsend returns to the country and will live at sva. A blacksmith shop opens near Bowie's store run by A Bowie and Jac R Seawright. W B Steward ill with typhoid fever. Miss Eliza Thomson teaches High Point school near Good Hope Church. Miss McNinch leads Poplar Springs school and Miss Fannie Abel runs Generoster. Prof. J F Sharper oversees the Iva school. The Corner takes pride in its flourishing local schools.
A compilation of brief items reports Congress will adjourn from December 21 to January 3, corporations plan to move HQs from Illinois, Stephen Drew of Danbury faces possible death, McKinley may appoint Fitzhugh Lee and Joe Wheeler as generals, Venezuela's constitution mirrors the United States, and a record tea cargo arrives in New York aboard Ping Suey. Also notes on women workers in Boston, Senator Mason's sympathy for South Africa, stamps fraud case involving David Badeau, and a Utah clockmaker’s world time clock with a revolving globe display.
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