Grand Clearing Sale Promises Big Price Reductions
In a broad sale promotion the store announces a grand clearing sale to reduce an immense stock of dry goods. Daily arrivals are expected with a thirty day price cut across all lines. They pledge fair pricing, no price gouging, and offer savings around twenty percent by avoiding interest on large purchases. The notice highlights embroidery, hosiery, handkerchiefs, notions, and Holland window shades as featured items with home furnishing appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erga
Ewa
Western Territories
Wny
Montaca
Agsi
Montana
Bozeian
Ther
Cannes
Hamilton
Moptain
Maiden Close
Fergua
Isin Freta
Indy
Sadie
Oteen
Tudian
San Francisco
Sour Grocery Department Seeks Fresh Stock for Sale
Sour Grocery reports heavy stocks and readiness to meet competition. Twenty-five barrels of flour, coffee and other staples arrive constantly and are kept for sale. Colts a specialty. try a pound and you will use no.
Summer Normal Institute Plans and Teacher Openings
In Belton and Greenville a summer program opens July 5 or 19 with Prof Morrison arriving by train to set schedules. The county aims to hire teachers, trustees urged to attend the Normal, and Peabody Scholarship exams set for August 25 in Greenville. The piece praises practical college addresses and notes the need to balance education with farming, while detailing new drilling and sinking techniques from the Naval Electrician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Normal College
Greenville
State Normal Institute
The Manufacture of Candy from Harper's Magazine
The article details traditional candy making focusing on stick candy and other confections. It describes sugar processing, pulling and forming, dough handling, starch moulding, and drying rooms, with notes on shapes, lozenges, gum drops, and fancy casts. It covers colorants, flavors, adulteration risks, and health inspections in New York factories.
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New York
Alony
Pang
Wascrupa- Inus
Am Wisich
Harper's Magazine
Emancipation and the Souths Labor Debate in Georgia
Flowell Cobb analyzes postwar conditions in Georgia, arguing emancipation disrupted plantation life yet did not fully impoverish the region. He cites white dependence on northern supplies, calls for white immigration to balance labor, and warns of racial tension. The piece frames a controversial view of the negro as laborer and the path to prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flowell Cobb
Angieste
Chronicle
Alexander H. Stephens
Georgia
Oller
Thaland
South
Hoth
Freeman
RB. Cobb
Alamos Society
Georgia University
B. H. Hill
Sravery
Hill
Tiss
Bureau of Immigration
Shea Neen Hale
Acquittal Sparks Debate on Jury Justice in Abbeville
Abbeville’s Abbeville Press and Banner laments the acquittal of Ferguson and Parguera after a homicide. It argues juries reflect sentiment yet fail to convict for crimes against persons, warning lynch law could emerge if the law does not protect life and limb. The piece calls for change in the jury system to ensure swift, certain justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John O. Parguera
Arthur M. Benedict
Banner
Abbeville County
Roy
Kell
Abbeville Couny
Fluie
Abbeville Press
Bonner
Boundary Line Survey Splits North and South Carolina
Arthur Wisslow, engineer, completed a detailed field survey of the disputed boundary between North Carolina and South Carolina along Mecklenburg and Lancaster counties. The work spanned three weeks under Captain B. S. Alexander, with a new meridian and theodolite mapping from stellar observations. The revised survey challenges the old lines, locating about seven thousand acres in North Carolina and prompting talks of arbitration to settle the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Wisslow
North Carolina
Sout Carolina
Mecklenburg
Lancaster
Mme
Alexander
Charville
Noah
Charlotte
South Carolina
Winslow
Board of Arbitration
Maleigh Mewe
A Contractor's Ghost Story at Clinton House
A veteran contractor Van Dyke recounts a chilling episode from a railroad job with a trusted but deceitful tie supplier. The trader’s ghostly visit foretold his death within minutes after a confrontation over a paid bill. The tale shifts to frontier survival and a hunt through Oregon country ending with a panther and an Inj wage duel. Subsequent notes discuss prohibition era bar closures and pension spending, mixing anecdotes with political commentary.
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van Dyke
Clinton House
Imp
Tridd
Ha Aidge
Leve
Lila
Sam
Unequally Matched Women and Failing to Marry
A fragmentary social column discusses marriage, independence, and the burdens on women. It argues that a woman should avoid marriage for misery, praising single or educated lives and critiquing pressure to wed for the wrong reasons. It references age, work, and domestic roles, and mentions a variety of anecdotes and editorials from a late 19th or early 20th context.
Wonders of the Sea Recounting Ocean Facts Across Depths and Salt
An account explains sea coverage, depth effects on temperature and pressure, evaporation, and water cycles. It notes waves can reach forty feet, speeds of fifty miles per hour, and a hypothetical Atlantic salt layer thirty feet thick if averaged down to three miles.
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Atlantic
Tha Mang Boya
Norway
Storma
Galley
Valley
Bell Rock
Iast
Rivera
Newfoundand
Weland
Couparne
Sind
Africa
Italy
Local Citizen Dies After Tree Fall Near Home
Mannox, a prominent county resident living twelve miles above town, was killed when a two foot thick pine fell on him as he walked to fetch mail near Backwamp. His body was found late at night, terribly mangled, with his head spared. He was a 40 year old husband and father of four. Senator Kenna will chair the Democratic Congressional Committee in 1888.
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Jane
Columbia
Oregon
Joe
Redskin
Amin
Nilent
Sid
Viatenia
Peter
Per
de Negro
Ifo
Controversial Ohio County Story Of Ailing Horse Exchange
An 80 cent bore in Ohio County allegedly bought a starved horse from B. A. Martin after an impoverished man asked to sell it for 81 cents. The horse, once fed and cared for, cultivated 22 acres under poor conditions. The account, attributed to Carolina Spartan, reflects harsh poverty and contentious exchange.
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Ohio County
B. A. Martin’s
Cornelius
Martin
Uraeling
Carolina Spartan
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Holland
Sour Grocery Department
Bleckley, Brown & Fretwell
John E. Peoples
Atlanta
Charleston
Haw Jong
Tto
Aspresox
van Winkle
Boss Press
Star Press
Star Hand Press
Sing Sing
Comoin
Traghers Golumn, J. G. Clinkscales, Enrroz
Teachers! Institute
Avery
Teschera’ Institute
Morrison
Mises Minerva
Lucinda Drake
BR. A-Bagwell
Belton
Bagwell
Branby Creek Township
Bob
Bushee
Porman University
Etter
Ferguson
Lane Terland
Oakland
Treasury
United States
Clavaland
Riggs & Co
A Olnes
Montans Frontiers
Leest
Europe
It. M.stevenson
Fairheld
Nimaell
Winnéboro
Cleveland Ja
Carne Tentiona
Heys
Congress
Spplican
Hans
Secesion Baresis
Itis
Sion
Alba
Republica
Colcord
Forbes
Meno Ilataboan Reilly
Ishamed
Kenna
Unktat
Cleveland
Maken
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