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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1907
Page
3
Keowee Courier published weekly by Jaynes Shelor Smith Steck. Obituary notices and tributes up to one hundred words print free. longer notices charged at one cent per word and require manuscript payment. Annual subscription 1.00.
In Charlotte on November 22 the church group discussed a Synod of the South law from Elk Valley Tennessee prohibiting tobacco use by ministers elders college presidents and other leaders The debate followed a motion about nonusers taking the floor and reflected concerns about ministers addicted to tobacco Burdoole Blood Bitters is mentioned as a cure by J T Walker of Sunbury Ohio.
A pedestrian nicknamed Dakota Bob left New York after obtaining a written note from Mayor McClellan and promising to recount his journey. He plans to reach New Orleans by February 14, detailing his Western rivalry with Weston to reporters.
A dubious medical advertisement praised Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for extracting medicinal properties from native roots and adding nutritive antitoxin and antiseptic effects. It claimed benefits for barking coughs, bronchial throat and lung affections, and wasting illness with appetite loss, suggesting miracles possible though not guaranteed.
The article traces early textile craft from India and Egypt to Europe, then notes the absence of Atlantic transference to the Bahamas. It cites Welte and Jones, discusses ruins at Copan and Uxmal, and describes Aztec and Moorish fabrics shown to Spanish courts. It concludes with Columbus’s 1492 landfall reshaping Christian contact with new peoples.
Paradelphia Record notes Stanley Wright, a 17 year old Rich Tut township youth, stands six feet seven inches tall and weighs 356 pounds. Reported as the state’s tallest pupil and poised to teach in Rich Hill township schools. The piece closes with an ad for Hellbiter's Rocky Mountain Tea.
Miastaking landa num for cough syrup led two and a half year old Maude Henderson, daughter of J A Henderson, to ingest laudanum from bottles on a mantle. A physician was summoned too late to save her. Funeral services and city cemetery burial planned for the child.
A vintage ad warns that constipation causes dizziness languor and heart palpitations. It criticizes drastic physics gripe for failing to cure and promotes Dean's Regulats as a gentle cure, priced at 25 cents, urging readers to ask their druggist.
A fragmented passage states determination to enter the livery business with promises of prompt service and affordable prices, though the text is garbled. It hints at a vendor or individual asserting commitment amid unclear surrounding details or names.
Cincinnati and New York reports describe a devastating blaze with high winds pushing flames through structures. In Cincinnati three burglars removed from one room while five others were believed trapped as the Windorat Brothers' store burns. In New York thirteen dead and seven injured in a five story tenement fire started in a liquor store. Families on upper floors perished due to smoke and blocked exits.Authorities noted narrow stairways and heavy smoke hindered evacuation.
Chief Felice Goforth of Newton County, shot while returning home unarmed after leaving his pistol at a neighbor's request, dies from wounds. Burglar had chloroformed a woman in the house but fled before operations began. Local report notes the incident occurred about 3 a.m. involving neighbor Mr Barringer.
A Columbia state woman, Hin Cornish of Lincoln arrest in the oil fields, died after hydrophobia from a mad dog bite weeks earlier. She showed classic rabies symptoms including throat muscle spasm and inability to swallow, with delirium and heart changes. Physicians cautious in diagnosis. Advertisement for King’s Little Liver Pills follows.
Col L W Youmang planted 600 acres of long staple cotton, expecting $16,000 but shorted by about $5,000 due to market factors. The crop yield featured long staple fibers of one and a half inches or more, touted as the season’s highest grade upland long staple cotton sold in Savannah, surpassed only by one other Georgia shipper. Prices averaged around 21 cents per pound.
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