10 Sep 1913
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1913
Page
1
Edgefield Advertiser established 1835 publishes weekly on Wednesdays from The Advertiser Building. Subscription is $1.50 per year in advance. Notices require writer name. obituaries and cards of thanks published at advertising rates.
Edgfield editorials discuss Mrs. Pankhurst arriving in New York and potential deportation, a free Edgefield High School, aids to crop delinquency, and political shifts with Taft and the American Bar Association. Commentary links trolley jobs to entrenched power and calls for national action to support local needs. The piece laments Thaw's legal defense and questions Manhattan asylum.
The article condemns the cotton price fix as a folly and urges Edgefield residents to rally a Herculean effort to secure a competing railroad line. It argues rail access drives growth and warns that passing lines to the east or west would doom Edgefield’s prospects. It notes past missed chances with the Augusta to Columbia line and warns investors are moving southward.
The piece argues farmers cannot set a minimum cotton price while much of their crop is sold before processing. It notes that speculators know this and that resolutions declaring a minimum price would be unenforceable. It urges discretion in public announcements of any such price.
The Advertiser argues for elimination of wooden passenger cars after recent wrecks show steel coaches offer far better protection and less fire risk. It predicts large railroads are ordering steel cars and anticipates a law mandating fire proof passenger coaches nationwide.
A public call urges residents to support Sheriff Swearingen and deputies in ending whiskey sales by alleged “blind tigers.” The plea cites negro sellers bottling liquor for transport from the Aiken dispensary and urges white community action to constrain illicit liquor trade before the busy season.
A humorous clipping compares a children's rhyme about Mary with modern newspaper spoofs. It parodies Mary’s clothing and mischief across four papers, noting gowns skirts limbs pumps and comical mishaps from the Louisville Cincinnati Seattle Indianapolis papers.
Mrs CJ Martin of Boone Mill Virginia writes she suffered five years with stomach troubles and could not eat a biscuit. After taking three bottles of Chamberlain's Tablets she is now well, weighs 168 pounds, and can eat anything. She invites locals to verify her claim and notes the tablets are sold by all dealers.
Store your cotton with guaranteed insurance. Rates: 1 to 10 bale lots at 30 cents per bale per month. For 10 or more bales, 25 cents per bale per month.
Notice to music pupils that lessons will begin in the third week of September. Mrs John R Tompkins Edgefield S C.
A Newberry Observer quote claims Chicagoans praised Jack Johnson as a hero for his marriage to white women and his violence against a Chinese man for marrying a white woman, noting Johnson killed a Chinese man and nearly beat his wife.
The Keowee Courier reports a new fashion in garters an above the knee holder for a watch set in silver gold or inlaid designs. The note says this fashion is said to be the latest craze and the paper confesses hesitation to ask a lady the time.
A Kansas City man, seen eyeing a blind beggar with a sign reading Deaf, dumb and blind since childhood, was arrested as a fraud and jailed for 100 days after a young woman in the slit style attracted attention to the scene.
The Bamberg Herald notes a county dispensary board should avoid costly bottling plants due to the likelihood of state wide prohibition. It reports Orangeburg county legislative delegation urging restraint amid a statewide prohibition movement with a possible success.
A Greenville News reporter quotes a prominent citizen on Main Street praising locally made clothing. He notes his clothes come from Greenville and Spartanburg mills, with shirts from Greenville cotton, bleached at Greenville Union, and undergarments from Watts mills of Laurens.
A collage of humorous vignettes from reader submissions and old church humor. Jokes range from a condemned man on the gallows to a boy misusing the word each and a minister guiding a class on gratitude with a blunt kitchen remark. The humor reflects rural and small town life with playful wordplay and moral puns.
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