07 Jul 1909
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1909
Page
1
A Greenwood tale reports a large Highland snake found in a drawer by Mrs Walter Riddlehuber four miles east of town. The snake allegedly devoured lace and ribbons during a period unseen, with W J Wells and Pope Riddlehuber vouching for the story or details.
The United States Bureau of Soils will investigate the Pudding Swamp tobacco area in Clarendon County as soon as funds are available. Commissioner Watson will address Manning on July 14 with Prof. Harper discussing tobacco development, signaling a boost for local planters.
Columbia special says Gov Ansel refused to pardon John Frank In Fuller of this county. Fuller, a white youth about 20, was convicted of house breaking and larceny and sent to three years in prison after being caught in Capt Jobe A Semina bungalow.
At Summerville the State Medical Association approved opening the Pasteur Institute at Home, Columbia, as the state laboratory for rabies treatment and bacterial examinations. The new lab will aid the medical profession and benefit South Carolina residents.
The Journal and Review hosts a show featuring two guinea eggs donated by Mr. James Widener of Tradway. One egg bears the likeness of a duck in a sitting pose, the other depicts an American eagle.
A Lexington Dispatch editor urges a statewide campaign for better roads in North Carolina. He argues road modernization boosts industry, farming, and settlement, advocates bonded funding, professional engineering, and federal state cooperation, and cites historical and continental precedents to push macadamized highways as essential to progress.
Queen Alexandrine, ruler of a Baltic state, faces mounting pressure from feminist campaigns as the nation marks Florence Nights’s ninetieth birthday. Opinions split on advancing women’s rights and suffrage amid political tension.
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