11 Jan 1905
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1905
Page
1
Information lists subscription prices for one year or six months with advance payment options. Advertisements cost one inch per insertion, with additional insertions at reduced rates. Want notices priced per word and other local notices charged per line. Obituaries and tributes treated as regular ads with possible liberal multi month contracts.
The January centennial celebration at the South Carolina College in Columbia gathers educators and alumni from across the state and nation, promising renewed impetus to education statewide. The piece also discusses futures speculation, farmer organization, textile pricing, and Edgefield industrial hopes including a local mattress factory and bank dividend observations.
Edgefield county election board met Monday to tally January 3 vote on forming Calhoun county. Result 237 in favor 95 against. A protest alleged 60 votes and 100 registration certificates issued the day before the election contrary to law requiring registration books close 30 days prior. Board members D. W Qumathis and E Quarles dissented.
The article contrasts legitimate cotton speculation with futures gambling and cites a Edgefield mass meeting on Dec 19 1904 to oppose Calhoun County formation. It lists a long committee of one hundred with names from Edgefield and surrounding areas. It also notes discussions on saloons dispersary law compulsory education and local travel to Columbia. Nearby social notes mention visitors and illnesses.
Johnston School opened with many teachers and pupils present. A Thursday fire alarm near panic was averted by calm leadership. fire extinguished with little damage. Knights of Pythias banquet hosted over 100 guests. New Century Club book party hosted by Miss Dosia Werts. Edgefield Cotton-fix change blamed on gambling. Johnston News critique of women in editorials. church prayer meeting filled. Belle Carson and Jessie Derrick wed quietly at Mr. Stevens home.
Fragmentary snippet mentions Cold Spring and rising cotton prices. Text is garbled, unreadable in parts, with unclear subjects or actions. No clear events, names, dates, or organizations emerge beyond reference to a place and commodity.
Fruit Trees, 5000 Paper Shell Pecans from native nuts average 37 to the pound. Prices: 23 cents each, 12 for $2.00, 100 for $10.00. 800 Jap walnuts 25 cents each, 12 for $2.00. Perches 10 cents each or 12 for $1.00. Apples tested Golden Mag, Red Juve and Watson's September LO cents each or 12 for $100. Keoter pears 2 to 3 feet $1.50 per dozen. Japan plums 25 cents or 12 for $3.00. Roses $3.00 per dozen. P. N. Lott, Johnston, S. C.
Questioning a dealer’s profit in paint sales, the text argues a property owner loses 4 dollars 20 cents while a dealer nets 50 cents per fourteen gallons of mixed L. M. and tinseed oil. It notes eight gallons of L. M. paint and six gallons of tinseed oil create fourteen gallons at $1.20 per gallon, a claimed loss to the owner. The piece cites church paintings with Longman Martinez L. M. Paint and a Penn Drug Store liberal distribution.
Mrs. Cora Walker of Porterville California endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as superior for colds and pneumonia prevention. The ad claims it cures colds quickly, is pleasant and safe, and urges purchase from all druggists.
Mrs. Chas Applegate of Alexandria Indiana suffered nights of coughing and spitting blood from consumption. Three bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery cured her, with a 58 pound gain. It claims to cure coughs colds la grippe bronchitis and related illnesses. The Penn Drug Store offers 50 cent and one dollar sizes with free trial bottles.
Joe Golobick of Colusa California writes that after 15 years of rheumatic pain he found relief and cure with Electric Bitters. He claims the remedy also helps liver and kidney troubles and general debility. The Penn Drug Store offers it at 60 cents with satisfaction guaranteed.
A promotional item touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a powerful health booster that converts weakness into strength and listlessness into energy. The advertised pills claim to enhance mental power and vitality, offered at 25 cents per box by The Penn Drag Store.
A historical advertisement asserts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is perfectly safe for children and contains nothing harmful. It warns that giving unsuitable medicines to children can worsen illness and claims the remedy helps coughs colds and croup. Available from all druggists.
A Pennsylvania man, W H Howard of Husband, reports his mother suffered rheumatism for years and was often unable to move. After using Chamberlain's Pain Balm, she could walk with ease and remains pain free with occasional applications. Sold by all druggists.
A. Gul ledge of Verbena Alabama recalls a long fight with a terrible case of piles that caused 2% tumors yet Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured him. The ad claims the salve is equally good for burns and all aches and pains and is priced at 25 cents at The Pen Drug.
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