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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1901
Page
1
A fragmented speech discusses clothing merchants, credit practices, and customer cash payments. It notes that many customers are indecisive or shortsighted, trusting credit as their only friend, while merchants fear delayed or failed payments and face pressure in price and collection.
A collage of Piedmont area items: fires burn barns and mules. a Beaufort veteran murdered. Mormon elders warned in Saluda. a Columbia doctor found dead. Laurens jail murder charge. Florence County funeral and a tobacco barn blaze. Local church leaders, a Greenville craftsman, and a Beaufort woman burned. Rock Hill garrison alarm. Yorkville coffins sales. Senator Tillman tour reports. Charleston Exposition religious program. naval officer assigned to Charleston. Carolina and Wofford college anniversaries. a Pinkerton County plea about a distillery and governor action.
A wide range of items from Albany and beyond include a NYC style note on a $100,000 freighter, North Carolina cotton crop shortfalls, and Cuban mail-free rail charters. Reports cover New Orleans export rank, West Point rebuilding, literacy gaps in the South, a McKinley statue cost, and state troop movements in Kentucky. Other notes mention a Bank of Liverpool embezzlement, falling apple crops, land sales in North Carolina, Ohio voting shifts, and sensational local disappearances.
A. W. Brawi of Bamberg County warns editors that farmers in Bamberg and Barnwell plant a soft hybrid cotton selling to New England mills at 19 4 cents per pound. He argues upland long cotton may outperform Egyptian and sea island, fearing Charleston factors favor island varieties. He predicts the South Carolina farmer will dominate the long cotton market within a decade, harming higher grade sea island and Egyptian supplies.
In Denver Colorado a new sanitarium organized by local professionals is operating on a 10 acre tract five miles from the city. About 15 to 20 patients in early consumption stages live outdoors year round under rules mandating continuous fresh air and ample clothing and blankets. Doctors believe the open air and proper diet hasten recovery, aiming to remove patients from urban lodging to a healthful colony away from city crowds.
Judge M. A. Rogers, formerly of the Colorado Supreme Court and noted lawyer, died in Steamboat Springs after an apparent self-inflicted act. The incident occurred near Bear River as he and his wife were summering in the area. No evidence of a catalyst or motive is reported.
A Decatur Alabama report details the near burial of Janes Winn a blacksmith who was wrongly pronounced dead and coffin ed for burial. His revival and the ensuing horror underscore calls by legislators and officials for precise rules to prevent secret horrors in funerals and ensure death determinations are accurate beyond doubt.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy closed its eighth annual convention in Wilmington New Jersey appointing New Orleans as next year’s site. One hundred forty five chapters attended. Mrs Stonewall Jackson elected honorary president for life. Jefferson Davis Monument Association reported about 13000 collected. arch to cost at least 50000 with 38000 in bank. Unveiling set for Richmond January 1905. Resolutions urged restraint on titles and sponsors at reunions.
In Santiago on November 4 Gen Wood purchased for the Government the main portion of the San Juan battlefield including San Juan Hill and key Black Hounds and Bloody Ridge. The two hundred acre tract cost 315,000 and will become a United States reservation with plans for a scenic park.
Camp Kershaw No 74 U C Vresolves opposition to establishing a state or county soldiers home and decline to back any candidate who favors such a home. The resolution favors pension increases and for old soldiers to die at home with their families. Signed by T A McEynor Adgt Camp Kershaw U C. The rest notes profit is honored even in its own country and unadorned truth not always showing in bear story.
Lowndesville reports OFGL scholars at the high school with two teachers aided by Dr. T O Kirkpatrick. Gordon Speer now under Cooley Speer. Rev Mr Daniels to attend General Conference in Columbia. Annie Wharin visiting family in Kentucky. Miss Tawra and Miss Mamie Baskin recently in Lowndesville from Anderson. W A Latimer of Augusta visiting J I Latimer. Leona Binke canvassing for Abbeville exhibit in Charleston expo. Rural mail route setup to begin Monday with W W Thompson and J Marion Latimer delivering. E P William of LaGrange visiting T Baker. J J Johnson back from Abbeville. Liddell seen in Abbeville last Monday the 20th inst.
The piece recalls a beautiful fall with two months of fair weather and predicts rain this winter. Farmers report extensive wheat planting, land prepping with two-horse plows, subsoiling, and fertilizing, hoping for higher yields. Social notes mention visitors, Thanksgiving plans, and local gossip at Honey Path High School and surrounding towns. A pair of tragic local incidents report a house fire with five lives lost and two children burned to death in separate incidents.
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