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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1901
Page
2
The store advertises a Twenty-Five Percent Discount Sale offering $1.00 off items. It claims regular prices are already the lowest and promises genuine savings on all on-hand clothing with no reservations, urging customers to hurry.
Warships sail from the nation’s capital amid tensions in Venezuela where the Asphalt Trust faces a court-driven transfer of land to a weaker American concessionaire. The piece also surveys rail consolidation and proposed tariff cuts tied to Senator Hanna and the revenue bill, plus a South Carolina Confederate veteran inquiry from Alaska and follow-up correspondence.
A young society woman in the city helps a newsboy at a Thanksgiving meal, serving him plate after plate as others eat. He pleads that he cannot swallow more while she ensures he is not lacking for food, drawing questions about the sincerity of appreciation.
Jan 18 report from San Francisco details a steamship company with $12.5 million capital proposing to colonize Mexico with Oriental laborers. Promoters claim a Mexican government concession of fishing privileges and lands near coast settlements, inviting Chinese and European settlers. The circular seeks Chinese merchants to invest and promises duty free goods for incoming labor and supplies.
Smallpox rages at Beaufort. Ausgro lynched over veud erims in Barnwell. Union mayor sends chicken thief to chain gang for 120 days. Spartanburg reports Wofford Fitting School fire. 40 students escaped. Edgefield sets for 1903 politics. Lexington annexation debate. Prison building touted as top South. Two Columbis girls hit by engine. Miss Leonora Daniele killed. Eliphas Dawkins jailed in Gaffney for murder. Sumter to start nursing training school February 1 with local physicians lecturing.
A chaotic digest of early 20th century items. It notes alleged racial violence in Leavenworth Kansas, mass troop recruitment for the Philippines, vast flood of damages and corporate concerns, a mob action over a wrecked system, and notable individuals including J O Rockefeller Jr and Captain S S Brown. It mentions multiple towns, storms, oil finds near Beaumont, and a fatal personal act in Atlanta.
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