11 Oct 1899
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1899
Page
1
An advertisement contrasts credit stores with cash buys, offering Sunata credit at $10 versus $8 50 spot cash for the same suit. It argues competitors push credit to extract higher costs and claims to provide good, honest clothing with satisfaction guaranteed.
Evans' Guaranteed Shoes are priced at 3 50 and touted as worth 3 0 with a famed manufacturer name boosting value by at least a dollar. The ad promises non spreading soles, indicating quality, and offers all styles with a single price.
The advertisement touts a large stock of school suits in Anderson, each suit specially lined and extra stitched. Prices cited range from 250 to 400 with emphasis on volume and quality.
The notice touts Evans' Suits as the neatest fitting and finest looking in town with new styles for the season. It invites customers to visit the store regardless of readiness to buy and promises quality wardrobes.
The ad emphasizes taste in hat choice over other apparel and promotes planter hats with varied price points. Hats begin at 23e and dress hats range from 1.00 to 3.00 dollars with large lots available through Evans' credit stores.
In Coltonia South Carolina the dispensary board of control dismissed Commissioner Donthit after a probes into alleged fraud. The report accuses labeling schemes to inflate prices and misappropriation totaling over $1,100 with cases of counterfeit branding. The board sees possible prosecution and awaits court action as Donthit seeks vindication.
Special dispatch from Montgomery reports Charles Rankin fatally shot Frank Walker and Miss Maud Goshorn at the Cook home nine miles east of Montgomery during a wedding supper. Rankin then killed himself, leaving a letter claiming rejection over Miss Goshorn. A child was seriously wounded. All involved were prominent residents of Montgomery County.
A late night reporter observed a Chinese man on King Street kneeling before a small shrine in a laundry rear. He chanted prayed and performed rites with a shell shrine and candles as lanterns swung, attracting curious glances from passersby.
A garbled account describes cannibalism linked to a steamer voyage to Sydney and the New Hebrides. It mentions Angeea mats and a wife’s tribe on Aoba, with a man named Amen allegedly killed and devoured by Hat Lives. The report is unclear and fragmentary.
State news records a drowning near Greenville of Percy Ellis about twenty, and an ordinance to curb sidewalk spills. Other items report chicken thefts, mayoral candidates, a hospital surgeon’s appointment, a rail charter, a suicide at Denmark depot, and a fatal rural shooting near Woodruff.
Brief notice from Abbeville South Carolina advertising cheap printing and prompt minutes aimed at arts and catalogs. Invites readers to write to the Press aan Vanier for service and pricing.
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