Pleasant Evening At Miss Joyce Surprise Party
A surprise party for Miss Hellen Joyce was held at the Tourist Hotel last evening. Guests enjoyed games and a ragtime piano dance, with a lavish table of delicacies served after the entertainment. Mr and Mrs Joyce welcomed everyone and the gathering included Bethel Farris Albert Ford Jule Collins Will Smith Hubert Bud geman Willie Walker Willie Collins Leslie Jones James Porter Jallie Carraway Walter Boone Essie Smith Ethelyn Owens Edith Wisanski Ora Porter Ida McKeithen Bessie Joyce Emily Murphy Lula Doar Rose Ehrich Essie Doar.
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Hellen Joyce
Mrs. Joyce
Messrs
Bethel Farris
Albert Ford
Jule Collins
Will Smith
Hubert Budgman
Willie Walker
Willie Colins
Leslie Jones
James Porter
Jallie Carraway
Walter Boone
Essie Smith
Ethelyn Owens
Edith Wisanski
Ora Porter
Ida McKeithen
Bessie Joyce
Emily Murphy
Lula Doar
Rose Ehrich
Essie Doar
Meteor or crash shakes Gaffney outskirts
Residents of the Apart section near Gaffney report bright flashes and a loud crash last Friday around 8 o clock. Glass rattled for miles and a hole measuring about fifteen by twenty feet, six feet deep, was found. Skepticism remains about burial. dig could follow.
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Gaffney
Aratt
Very Fishy Love Notes From a Scraps Column
In a playful London Scraps moment a fisherman’s daughter and her suitor exchange pun laden vows about nets worms and pins. The wife to be declares love with sea life wordplay while the man vows fidelity and devotion amid flirtatious humor and social bustle.
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London
Daily Item delivers news daily for ten-cent weekly
The Daily Item announces a daily newspaper delivery service priced at 10 cents per week. It highlights regular daily issues and the convenience of home delivery.
Watchman William M. Holland Assassinated in Atlanta
William M. Holland night watchman at the Atlanta Ice and Coal plant was found dead early today with a heavy shot wound after his 3 am rounds. Investigators report cut telegraph wires and no clue to the murderer. Holland had been fired on by unknown parties about a year ago at the same plant.
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Atlanta
William M. Holland
Atlanta Ice and Coal Company
Holland
Telegraph Signal Company
Learned Shoeblack Promotes Services in Bostonese Card
A New York shoeblack attracted trade by distributing cards in Bostonese style. The ad boasts polished pedal teguments cleaned and lubricated for five cents and patrons relaxed in a luxurious posture. The piece from the Philadelphia Record presents a humorous verbose pitch.
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New York
Philadelphia Record
Dry Bluffton townsfolk lock up a chorus at jail
Bluffton is described as a dry town with no prisoners in the wet county jail which houses a light opera chorus. The chorus members arrived during the Methodist conference and hotels were full. After securing rooms for the men, ten girls could not find lodging and agreed to sleep in the county jail.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Bluffton
Pany
Soft drink dealers warned to take liquor licenses
The internal revenue department under Mr. A. J. Yellowly has notified Columbia soft drink sellers to obtain liquor licenses if their syrups contain as much as one half of one percent alcohol. Some dealers have already licensed for 1908 1909, others may challenge the ruling. W. W. Abbott says he paid for licenses and will stop using wines. inspectors warn dealers statewide.
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Internal Revenue Department
A. J. Yellowly
Columbia
W. W. Abbott
South Carolina
Yellowly
Columbia Record
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure All Stages
A 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal use fights blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars to any case it cannot cure with testimonials available from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Chen Rae & CO
Toledo
Big Little Woman Dead In New York
Louise Ambrodine died of acute rheumatism in New York at age 24. She measured four feet four inches tall and weighed 700 pounds, having been known as a professional woman. A derrick will lower the body from her apartments due to a narrow stairway.
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New York
Louise Ambrodine
Butler Hanged At Pickens For Attempted Assault
Hans Butler, a colored man from a nearby plantation, was hanged in the Pickens jail yard at 12.30 PM in the presence of the sheriff and deputies. He confessed yesterday, died without further confession today, and greeted the crowd with a calm smile as the death march began. The incident followed an attempted criminal assault on a young woman a year earlier.
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Pickens
Hans Butler
Butler
The Chronic Kicker and the Weather Mood Swing
A quatrain on the variable temper of people across seasons. The poem notes moods shift from summer mope to winter scold and fall complaints, with a circus crowd reaction and a final moral about a man who will always endure. It ends with a street meeting remark about refusal to drink and weariness.
Grave Charge Preferred in Italian Dressmaker Case
Olvid Scheser, an Italian dressmaker, is charged with a criminal assault on the wife of a prominent employee in Columbia. The husband tried to kill Scheser at the preliminary hearing but was restrained by officers. The alleged attack occurred a month ago and the wife kept silent under threat. Scheser was committed without bail. This is a capital offense.
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Columbia
Olvid Scheser
Scheser
Schheser
Bai
Reduction on Oil Cut by Standard Oil Company
New York reports Standard Oil cuts refined petroleum price by 15 points today April 8. The move lowers costs for consumers and affects regional markets as the firm announces the decrease.
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New York
Standard Oil Company Today
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Hamilton Brown
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Satan
St. Peter
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