Anderson County Teachers Column Faces New Year Challenges
The Anderson County Teachers Column contains editorials and letters from educators. Leura Bowne, a visiting teacher, writes from Voller Dasteizs on January 1 1687 praising local schools and staff, recounting visits to Orangeburg and Sullivan's Island, and pledging renewed effort for a prosperous year. She commends Dr Dantzler reading educator Mellichanip and urges pupils to value opportunities, while sharing plans to resume duties and greet readers after the Normal Institute meeting.
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Calla
Lezehiars
Andereon
Mies Lelia
Ender
Slao
Mir-Lolia
Evar
Voller Dasteizs
Onavastoxe Co
Mr. Borron
Tenchera
Coluwon
Anderson County
Toriza
Anderson Ix
Dantzler
M. EB. C.S
Kessing
Orangeburg
Sullivan's Island
Mt. Pleasant
Fr. Moultrie
Normal Institute
Aum
Leura Bowne
Sold Himself as a Slave in Twentieth Century Ghost Story
A long narrative recounts a Cincinnati man in 1947 who agrees to sell a Black man named Charley into slavery in New Orleans for profit, repeats the scam along the river, and winds up $25,000 to $30,000 richer before Charley finally ends up in Lafayette, Indiana. The tale also touches Christmas lore, superstition, and a moral reflection on pleasing children.
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Grand Hotel
Strangs
Sayé
Ciccionati Commercial Gazette
Ft Ie
Obin
Cincinnati
New Gilvans
Hit
New Orleans
Jessify
Gharley
Charley
Charney
Vicksburg
Anla
Twes
Rive
Tosh
Canada
Charles Fields
Lafayette
Tod
Fraudulent Liberia scheme swindles Ft Mill area families
A white man and two colored men posed as American Colonization Society agents near Ft Mill and urged colored residents to pay for tickets to Liberia. About 38 families and 200 individuals waited at a depot for a promised exodus, exchanging red cards for tickets that never arrived. Roughly 1,000 people were affected, left destitute after paying $1,500 in total. authorities and victims chased the scammers as the trip failed to materialize.
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Ft. Mill
Bock HU
Dark Sea
American Colonization Society
Liberia
Avey
Perio
Fr. Mill
Ft. MN
The Chinese Diffusing Fae Across the World
A Brooklyn Times note quotes A B Shattuck on Canton emigration and the rapid spread of Chinese people across the southern Asiatic coast, the Pacific islands, Singapore, Cochin China, Australia, Fiji, and Mandalay. It highlights merchants dominating trade, native displacement, and rising emigration signaling great changes in China.
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A.B Shattuck
New York
Canton
Asiatic
Pacific Islands
Singapore
Chios
Cochin Chin
Asia
Cochin China
Australia
Gilbert Islands
Buwait
Pacific
Tulande
Fiji
Bromah
Mandalay
Busimahao
China
Ninrge
Brooklyn Tenies
Terrible Accident Kills Two Teens in Fort Wayne
A Mast express bound east collided with a sled carrying twenty youths two miles east of Fort Wayne Indiana. Miss Lizia Lepper and Miss Tips Mincker, both seventeen, died instantly. Several others were injured, with Liz Kandog, Lena Haight, Emma Scuppers, Gusta Heyne, Lizzia Weitks, and Bello Bishop among those hurt. Byron Westromb drove the party. attempt to stop failed as the train neared. A relief train arrived with surgeons to care for the wounded.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Lix
Baltimore
Republic
Tiffin
Ohio
Newark
Baltimore and Ohio
Moreata
Trerin
Chicago
Elty Agapon
Row
Baltimore & Ohio
Ioia
Ualee
Mary Posthlethwalia
Belton
Walzer County
W. Va
Chillienthe
W. M. Prevbrick
Washington
Express
F. CO. Barkley
Charles P. ‘Lotl
Datruit
Bautman
Megenger
Fish
Toliet
Logan
Fort Wayne
Ind
Mast Express
Pittaburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
Lizia Lepper
Misa Lena Haight
Misa Emma Scupler
Gusta Heyne
Lizzia Weitks
Bello Bishop
Byron Westromb
Ecéne
That Odd Skin Complaint Leucoderma Explained by Dr Shoemaker
Dr J Y Shoemaker of this city comments on a newspaper article about a alleged case where a negro man and woman allegedly turned white. He identifies the condition as leucoderma a non fatal skin disease caused by pigment loss and notes it is common among southern negroes and not a mysterious ailment. The piece also mentions a Bigifield paper on taxes levied on widows bachelors and childless couples.
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Jupiter
Juno
Hercules
Vulcan
Neptune
Remus
Lebanon
Southey
Charlea Dickens
Europe
Wotlét
Gual
Thor
Priya
Baldur
Baldura
Loki
Biasiul
Hela
Hell
Tialdur
Alibaba
Aladdin
Cinderella
Nicholas
Santa
Germany
Robert
Rupert
Tie
Presarta
Tom
Shela
Knight Rupert
Jase
Santa Claus
Markham House
Atlanta
Grier
Judgea Key
Trewhitt
Lewla Shepherd
Templeton
Knoxville
North Georgis
Mr. Templeton
Chattannoys
Sherman
South
Georgia
Gordon
Johnston
Pine Creek Church
Calhoun
Chatanooga
Mr. Beecher
Pty
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Cherie Watkins
Denver
Eas Wall
Pladi
Olivia ‘Benton
pNeanie Harkness
Adsreon County
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Texas
Anderson
Jubat Resson
Jean
Mellichanip
Dillarp
Poland
God the Good
United States
Montina
Christiana
Jerusalem
Rome
Bethlehem
Church of England
New England
Raphael
Italy
Halter
Linchild
Logen
General Logan
Margaret Phelps
County Monagham
Ireland
John Logan
Ulster
Maryland
John
Laramie
Fort Laramie
Wuiters
Jobo
Hie
Jackson County
Natchez
Miss
Elizabeth Jenkins
Jamea Hobarts
Carbondale
Gen
Loggan
Dr. Logan
Chicago Tribune
Ynaraf Grice
Workman
Univer
Hamlet
Presbyterian Church
Fred W. Shuler
Vanburg County
Mr. Jones
Aitis
Bigifield
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