Fairfield Good Roads Meeting Forms County Rally
Citizens in Winnsboro met at the courthouse to discuss highway improvements in Fairfield County. Resolutions urged joining the South Carolina Roads Association and forming a county-wide organization by August 29. A three member committee per county was named to mobilize road labor during the second week of August and a split log drag demonstration was proposed for school districts. Further rallies and regional meetings were planned in Sumter Monning Kings Tree Georgetown with Engineer Winslow and C W MoorMan representing the Record’s good roads campaign.
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Winnsboro
Court House
C. H. Douglas
County Board of Commissioners
Fairfield
C. H. Douglass
A. H. Brice
Woodward
Messrs
J. E . McDonald
T. L. Johnson
K. M. McMaster
D. J. Stevenson
R. A. Mears
W. R. Webb
J. Q. Davis
R. A. Meares
Fairfield County
South Carolina Roads Association
T.L. Johnson
W. R. Eliott
Winslow
C. W. Mooreman
Good Roads Campaign
Sumter
Monning
Kingstree
Georgetown
Mob forms to lynch suspect after assault in Kentucky
Reports say Lancaster Garrard county officers transported John Grimes a white man accused of assaulting 12 year old Mary Asheford to Varsailes Woodruff county for safekeeping. A mob is forming near the girl's home. The assault occurred last week.
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Lexington
Lancaster
Garrard County
John Grimes
Mary Asheford
Varsailies
Woodruff County
Grimes
Bob Remedy Claims Cure For Chills And Fever
An old advertisement touts 5 or 6 doses of Bob as a cure for chills and fever priced at five cents per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob
Price
Dynamite Bomb Kills Ridgeway Ex Mayor A H Bousman
A. H. Bousman of Ridgeway Virginia was assassinated by a dynamite bomb thrown from the street last evening. He died an hour after the explosion and no clue to the killer or motive has been found. Bousman presided over the town police court and some fear local enemies may have sought revenge.
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A. H. Bousman
Ridgeway
Bousman
Murder by Brass Knuckles Near Abbeville
In Abbeville on a plantation six miles from town Bob Howie a Black man killed another Black man with brass knuckles after a dispute post a Negro baseball game. Howie traveled from Asheville with liquor earlier the same day and is jailed amid witness accounts about a knife presence from Carter the slain man.
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Abbeville
Bob Howie
Lebanon
Walter B. Wilson
Howie
Asheville
Express Office
Carter
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offered For Deafness Claims
An advertisement asserts deafness results from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a cure for catarrh caused deafness. It offers one hundred dollars for any case not helped and lists Toledo based F. J. Cheney & Co as originators with contact details.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Marcus advertises quick service and low steak prices
Quick services and polite attention offered with phone number 102 and shop at 1015 Prince Street. Sell good steaks at 10 and 12 1-2 cents and best stew meats at 3 pounds for 25 cents. Promises quick delivery. Marcus.
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Prince Street
Marcus
Celery growing and blanching methods outlined in Extension text
The article details celery cultivation from seed in frames to field transplantation, soil preparation, and fertilizer use. It covers thinning, watering, stocky transplant plants, furrow depth, blanching by soil or string, and staking mulch practices. It lists suitable varieties Fin de Siecle Giant Pascal Winter Queen Golden Self Blanching and notes on storage and handling.
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C. ©. Newman
S. C
Crippen and Leneve Tracked Aboard Montrose
Scotland Yard believes Dr Hawley Crippen and Ethel Leneve are aboard the Montrose bound for Montreal. Inspector Dew aboard Laurentic aims to reach Rimouski by July 30 to arrest them. confidences say Leneve confessed to Montreal dispatches despite wireless gaps.
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London
Hawley H. Crippen
Ethel Clara Leneve
Montrose
Montreal
Scotland Yard
Crippen
Hill Drop Crescent
France
Antwerp
Doctor
Leneve
Dew
Liverpool
Rimouski
Canadian Pacific
Abbeville Suspect Reynolds Arrested in Reported Offense
A white man named Reynolds, of Abbeville cotton mills village, recently arrived from Georgia, was arrested and jailed on a charge connected to an incident involving an eleven year old girl from the same village. The offense is alleged to have occurred about three weeks prior and only now reported. Reynolds and his wife deny the accusation.
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Abbeville
W. v. Reynolds
Capt. Fred B. Cushman Dies in Greenville Home
Captain Fred B. Cushman, long associated with the South Carolina Steamboat Company, died at his Greenville home after a lengthy illness. He had moved to Greenville from Georgetown several years ago.
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Greenville
Fred B. Cushman
Georgetown
South Carolina Steamboat Company
A Few Short Week Cure by Kidney Pills
Mr J S Bartell of Kawardsville Illinois reports kidney congestion relief after using Kidney Pills from Iceman Drug Co and LCs Groft Drug Co. He states his pain subsided in weeks and he cheerfully recommends them to others.
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Record
Ists
Glemson
Foley
Nove
Drago
Grippen
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