Cutting Acreage and Holding Cotton in South Carolina
A South Carolina Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative Union bulletin urges growers to hold home supplies and reduce cotton acreage. It notes buyers seek farm products nationwide and calls for organizing a state union at Anderson starting May 1. J C Stribling and other organizers push recruitment, emphasize practical farming shifts to grain and livestock, and defend farm unions against earlier critiques.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Grain and Hay Association
Dairymen’s Association
Farmers’ Union
Grange
Alliance
T. Wakefield
The Richest Man in the World Kidney Cure Claim
A reader testimonial promotes Foley's Kidney Cure as preventing kidney failures and restoring health. Oscar Bowman of Lebanon Kentucky claims it cured his kidney disease. Dr J W Boll endorses the remedy, asserting it strengthened kidneys and could have saved his life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Oscar Bowman
Lebanon
Kye
J. W. Boll
Pain Family and Miles Anti Pain Pills Ad
An advert extols Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as a remedy for headaches neuralgia and stomach distress. It claims the Pain family of symptoms are soothed and strengthened by the pills and promises money back if no benefit. The notice lists sale by druggists in Elkhart Indiana and Peru Indiana with 25 doses for 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Tlanntess
Putin
South Carolina Sunday School Convention Set for Pelzer
A letter from W Devoe & Co highlights paint ad issues and a notice announces the twenty ninth annual South Carolina Sunday School Association convention at Pelzer Presbyterian church April 10 12. Delegates will be hosted by Pelzer crews. railroads offer a one and one third fare certificate plan. Beo Laxative Honey and Tar advertised as a child friendly cough remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.E. Pelham
Newberry
State Sunday School Association
Pelzer
South Carolina Sunday School Association
Presbyterian Church
S. C
Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip
Pelzer Presbyterian Church
Lynching Near Oak Grove Station Shocks West Carroll Parish
A negro known as Cotton was lynched within an hour of an alleged attempt to assault Miss Clair, daughter of a railroad camp contractor. A family alarm spurred a pursuit and Cotton was hanged from a tree by a mob near Oak Grove station. Separate items mention medical ads and a Confederate Reunion dates set for May 16 to 18 in Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Flora
Oak Grove Station
West Carroll
Parish
Clair
Cotton
Miss Blair
Harsh note from parent prompts school discipline clash
A county schoolteacher received a note from a pupil’s mother granting permission to beat the boy if needed to teach him a lesson. The letter compares him to his father and declares the teacher should handle him with a club, disregarding the father’s opinions. The excerpt also promotes Bee’s Laxative Honey and Tar and mentions a Fulton county grand jury indictment of Mrs. Willie Standifer for killing her sister Miss Chappell Whisonant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sammy
Ile
Fulton County
Georgia
Willie Standifer
Miss Chappell Whisonant
Also Mentioned on This Page
Farmers’ Union Bureau OF Information
J.C. Stribling
Pendleton
Vebanon Farmers’ Union
Anderson County
Anderson County Farmers Union
Cedar Grove Union
Fois
Nou
Armers
Hese Colina
Dinterest
Allian
N. G
Rocky Mountain
J. W. Welsh
Ian
Pain
J. J. Ansel
Valhalla
B. K. & G. W. Stickle
Rockaway
Devoe
Devoo
Mr. W. Devoe & Go
P.S
J. W. Bell
Seneca Mercantile Co
Seneca, and Matheson Hardware Co
Beo
W. J. Lunney
Seneca
A.M. Ako
Wood
Boley
Kenise
J. We Bell
Herman Reckling
Freeland
Steling
Hollister
D. Wy Bell
Epray
Central Committee
Columbia
Piso
Castoria
Samuel Pitch
Bears
Castoria Awaewa the Oawtaur Company
New York
Walhalla
D. P. Thomson
Ofice
C. W. Pitchford Co
J. H. Moore, M. D
Walhalla Drug Co
Residence
We. J. Stummne
E. L. Hemnpon
Stribling & Herndon
Anne Walsall
W. J. Carter, M.D
Bank
Carter
Westminster, S. C
J. H. Burgess
Seneca, 8. C
Nummons’ Store
Dovtas Burnpine
W.F. Austin den Seneca
S&s. CG
J. W. Byrd & Co
J.P. Carey, Pickous Be
J. W. Shelor
United States
R. T. Jaynes
S.C
Bell
Gough
Bee
Foleyshoney
B. SS. Look
Houchins
Wainalha
Paris
W. L. Brissey
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