11 Jun 1891
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1891
Page
1
The author laments leaving Anderson and its healthy climate, praising the city while announcing plans to relocate to Augusta, Georgia to establish a substantial wholesale and retail business, citing combined wishes of partners and the need to avoid long freight costs.
Advertisement proclaims a thirty day sale with prices slashed across dry goods clothing and shoes. Emphasizes towels linens dresses and hosiery at deep discounts, plus overstocked shoes and furniture. Promises low prices on names like ginghams and curtains and notes items damaged by fire sold below cost.
In a reflective civic column, C Wardeau advocates Anderson and Anderson County seize the opportunity to secure a women’s industrial school, stressing education’s civilizing power, urging broad local support, and citing Shakespeare to press urgency amid economic and moral stakes. The piece also laments prison conditions, condemns poverty, and echoes reformist calls linking education to civilization.
In Bloomfield a hill on farmer Tuttle’s property is sinking into the earth, drawing belief it is enchanted. Neighbors and worker Flannigan confirm the hill has descended several inches since his visit, while other sections warn the land may vanish within weeks amid local wonder and fear.
A garbledOCR collage notes varied maxims on fertility, prosperity, and fear. It cites Capt William Bruce in San Francisco, jokes about religion, labor in Italy, and a hyena escape in Georgia, mingling scattered stat facts and oddities from an old newspaper page.
A critique of Alliance leaders and regional interests argues that Western farmers push for higher prices for wheat pork and beef while Southern growers seek better prices for cotton potatoes and watermelons. The text notes competing aims among Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Georgia and the North and mentions prices and trade adjustments and shifts in agricultural policy.
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