28 May 1891
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1891
Page
1
An individual declares intention to depart Anderson and seek opportunities in Augusta, planning a large wholesale and retail venture. The message laments leaving a healthy city and its people, notes heavy burdens, and emphasizes full attention to new enterprise, including avoiding high freight costs.
A local store advertises a thirty day slaughter sale with prices slashed near cost on dry goods clothing and shoes. It highlights towels linens damask napkins curtains and shirts as well as odds and ends like safes and hardware. The note promises courteous service to all customers entering by wagon carriage or carriage and urges customers to buy now before stock runs out.
A fragment from Thaghers Column urges teachers to review their work, pursue new pedagogy books, and plan improvements. It highlights Honea Path hospitality, a Friday evening meeting with recitations, and a White Plains school event on the 30th with speeches by Rever H Zimmer and D W Bint.
The Honea Path Teachers Association meeting on the 16th drew complaints about lack of discussion leaders and interest. Topics included making history engaging, essential teacher knowledge, and best methods to prompt pupil recitation, with calls for teachers to share effective plans. A local teacher privately faced a guardian duties case, highlighting burdens on educators beyond the classroom.
A veteran recalls a ten to twelve year old boy who attached to a Louisiana regiment in 1861 and rode on a battle scene at Second Manassas. The child, called “the child of the regiment,” rode a limber amid cannon fire, cheering troops as chaos swirled, and vanished from the field as the battle raged.
Reports from New York describe a simple device for cleansing the stomach by washing with hot water through a long pipe and funnel. The method, claimed as safe, is said to relieve dyspepsia and cancer symptoms by flushing undigested matter and mucus, then closing vessels to reduce inflammation. The piece also critiques patent medicines and recalls a Civil War surrender anecdote involving General Sherman and General Breckinridge.
London reports describe a hidden slave market in the city where Poles Germans and Russians are bought and sold as laborers. The system involves a wall market line up of men, a slave buyer, signing long engagements, and brutal living conditions with hunger cold and harsh work. The piece condemns the practice and notes the role of emigration and persecution in driving this trafficking.
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