13 Mar 1890
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1890
Page
1
A reporter tours Cedar Grove, Maddox, Honeda Path, Rhody Grove, New Hope and other schools noting cramped quarters and missing basics but observing notable progress. Teachers like Miss Grubbs and Miss Campbell earn praise for improvement and community support boosts plans for larger houses and better facilities.
Marlboro County records its largest corn crop from a single acre farmed by Mr. Drake. The 296 by 147 feet plot yielded 17,407 pounds of corn in the ear, with 82 percent kernels, after meticulous planting, manuring, and cultivation. Spectators and officials witnessed the harvest, weighing the crop on tested scales and confirming the result.
A collage of breezy items notes a Monticello planter shipping 40,000 pounds of watermelon seeds, influenza in Italy causing comatose sleep, Edward Atkinson on egg value versus iron, Siberia’s permafrost, and a long Edgefield murder case delayed till August. Also covered are Hawaiian sugar magnate Spreckles, Morton’s Florida trip, South Dakota pockets, a Frost family joke about frost, social advice for young women, a Kentucky honey and legal returns, two local death anecdotes, a blind smoking quirk, Parker v Horn murder trial, and a urging California Syrup of Figs promotion.
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