Grand Opening Bargains at Dry Goods Store Front
Our proudly advertised store announces daily arrivals of goods and deep cuts on dry goods, shoes, notions, novelties, and more. Cloaks priced from 8.50 with cost to manufacture much lower, girls and misses garments in style, plus jackets, picture frames, and hardware. Vivid sales pitch urges immediate purchases to avoid missing replicated stock and highlights bacon, ties, wagons, and farm tools in stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shiren
Thexa Garmenta
Fai
Zwi
Wacon-Harner and Bulchen
Thaghers column urges immediate teacher hiring and school reform
The Carolina Teacher column argues Pendleton may lose teachers next year and calls for rapid hiring, better teacher allocation, and countywide school reforms. It praises Prof Morrison and Merriwether, notes Johns Hopkins study, and requests reorganizing poll taxes for fiscal efficiency. It proposes a county teachers column to share news and boost reading among educators.
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C. Merriwether
Williamston Male Academy
Williamston
Johns Hopkins University
Meriwether
McLee
Reedy River
Blanke
Carolina
The Kentucky Earthquake Chronicle Narrative
A historical Kentucky earthquake tale from 1825 recounted with vivid, if sensational, detail. The narrative describes darkness, rocking ground, trees and animals in motion, and people fleeing as tremors shook the Barrens and extended toward New Madrid and the Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magazine of American History
John J. Ruduben
Kentucky
Ebed
Frenne
Stu Stlend
Danelog
Thia
New Madrid
Mississippi
Audubon
Green
Cumberland
Mammoth Cave
Barrens
Miss Bettie Earle Teaches Spelling On The Black Board
A letter from Ampersen County dated Oct 6 1886 describes Miss Bettie Earle's teaching method using a blackboard to have children spell and write sentences, read words aloud, and compare synonyms. The writer recalls childhood schooling, benches, goose quill copies, and Friday prayers, praising educators and yearning for broader college access in country schools.
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Hillealx
Belre
Ampersen
Eprrok
Randhera
Sciml Hove
Bater
Lerviees
Alsv
New Plan for Burial by Burrazo Hulett
Theodore Graves Hulett of Niagara Falls testified before Buffalo Sanitary Board about his cementation method, claiming to preserve bodies by encasing coffins in cement since 1874. He showed blocks with preserved fruit and animal bodies and said he intends to cement his own and his daughters coffins, noting wet ground at Oakland Cemetery aids gas escape and yields a perfect model of a body for science.
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Burrazo
Theodore Graves Hulett
Israns
Niagara
Falla
Sanitary Board of Buffalo
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Coldra
Hulett
Oakland
Moses
God
Earthquake blamed on Charleston sins by Bishop Howe
In Charleston a bishop rebukes superstition and argues the quake was not divine punishment for the city’s wickedness. He cites past storms and notes churches and saloons suffered differently, while some fear personal fault as cause. A Sumter incident reports W A James Sr shooting Kibet Sieger Woodward after a dispute.
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Bishop Howe
Charleston
Walterboro
R Opke
Lisbon
W A. James, Sr
Sumter
Woodward
Ishopville
Allie
Old Friends in a New Form in Southern Alcohol Discovery
French chemists in the AI mentioned for extracting alcohol from potato and other vegetables. A new process aims to distill pure alcohol, possibly patented, with vast value for farmers by opening markets and cultivating idle land in the South. The potato patch may rival the cotton patch in importance.
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South Carolina
Attempts to wreck a train on the Columbia and Greenville line
On Wednesday night a freight train No 27 was attacked with rocks as it neared Donnald's. Engineer O M Weatheres reported the firenell escaped injury after stones shattered cab windows. The assailants were not seen and no pursuit occurred. The following afternoon a passenger train bound for Peace came upon a track obstruction at about the same spot with a cross tie bent and hole exposed. Engineer Jim Penner observed the damage in time to avoid a derailment.
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Heapa
Columbia
Greenville
Donnald’s
O. M. Weatheres
Firenell
Made & Darrow
Thun
Jim Penner
Calumbia
Bobby Geta the Malater War Reflections
An OCR snippet captures a fragmented exchange involving Bobby Geta the Malater about a good war and a minister dining with others. The dialogue hints at a casual dinner table discussion and personal reflections, with garbled names and phrases indicating a historical or informal setting.
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Bobby
Asban
Pike
Coulise
Hanford
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Chang
Tose
Stas
J. Baker & CG
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J. G. Glinescales
Enrzox
Camden Journal
J.E
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Gubbla
Packibe
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Virginia Court of Appeals
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Congress of Berlin
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America
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Victor Emanuel
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British Islands
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Spain
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Sweden
Norway
Peer Basi Sears
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the Malater
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