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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1908
Page
6
The notice states that obituary notices and tributes of respect under one hundred words are printed free of charge. Any longer submissions require payment at one cent per word, with cash accompanying the manuscript.
Walhalla daily notes an article describing the human brain as the most marvelous machine. It explains intricate nerve connections to muscles glands and senses and describes vision hearing smell taste and touch as palace chambers. The piece highlights the brain’s ability to think across languages and even imagine its own mortality. It then promotes Urino Laxative Fruit Syrup for constipation and general digestive relief.
New York news confirms a judgment of 131.41 dollars against lawyer O Reilly for flowers sent to Evelyn Thaw during the Harry Thaw trial. The filing reflects a civil claim arising from the sensational courtroom event.
A guide extols the New Perfection Wick Blue Flame Cook Stove to cool the kitchen and ease summer cooking. The stove’s blue flame concentrates heat, reducing radiation and personal discomfort, promising faster breakfasts and lighter housekeeping in hot weather.
A 1907 report details county liquor dispensaries in South Jarolia earning vast profits with a 39 percent average margin. Across twenty four counties the quarter ending March 31 saw 970964.01 dollars in whiskey sales, 268941.98 dollars profit, implying over one million yearly. The state thirty year dispensary era yielded 1616117.67 dollars to treasury, while county systems proved more lucrative per year.
Deputy Ervin Prince of Abbeville county shot and killed 20 year old Chester Cobb while attempting to arrest him after Cobb drew a gun. An inquest found the death justifiable and the negro died at the hands of the officer.
Greenville reports a nineteen month old child of N and Mia Odom drank gasoline from a cola bottle and died twenty minutes later after suffering intense itching and torment. Separate Paris dispatch notes Prince Helre de Sagan admitting plans to marry Mme Anna Gould and traveling to Naples, describing his time in America as torture.
An athletics instructor from Roxbury Massachusetts promotes vigorous body exercise for full health and energy. He credits Sloan’s Liniment with aiding exhausted athletes after extreme exertion and rheumatic discomfort, noting frequent household use and carry in travel.
Lem Jenkins, a Black farmer near Augusta, bought sardines for Sunday supper. He found a green lizard inside the second layer, cried in fear and nearly died, then recovered and swore off sardines.
Leesburg Virginia resident Maude K Forgie writes that after months of feminine ills Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and the prescribed treatment made her feel like a new woman She is not as strong as ever but thankful for the help and hopes others will try the remedy Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Mass
Tulsa Oklahoma April 24 lightning caused a sixty thousand dollar loss in the Glennpool oil field yesterday. The damage destroyed thousands of barrels of oil belonging to the Gulf Pipe Line Company Creek Oil Company Glenn Oil Company and the Associated Producers. Sylvester S Whitmire appointed postmaster at Rabun Gap Georgia vice H A Keener resigned.
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