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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1907
Page
3
The Keowee Courier, established 1849 and published every Wednesday, notes subscription at $1 per year and advertising terms. Personal communications up to 100 words may be printed free. longer items are charged at one cent per word with cash accompanying manuscripts.
Birmingham officials of the Farmers Union announce a practical relief for cash stringency. Farmers may pledge cotton to a local warehouse and receive scrip equal to 7 cents per pound, to be accepted at face value by merchants and some banks for notes owed. The plan carries the union's full approval and aims to streamline credit in Jefferson County and nearby sections.
An 19th century advertisement touts Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a universal remedy for female ailments. It lists symptoms like periodical hoed ashes backache faint spells and digestive distress, claiming the medicine cures or prevents serious conditions and supports pelvic organs. Private addresses and testimonial language accompany a recipe claim and vows of oath attestations.
A New York daily piece presents a home remedy for backache and urinary trouble. The mix, Pluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilia, is shaken in a bottle and taken in teaspoonful doses after meals and at bedtime. A local druggist notes ingredients are harmless and affordable and that the formula may cleanse kidneys and reduce blood waste. Readers are urged to try it.
Jamoa B. Lovett, principal of the Shenandoah Valley Military Academy in Winchester Virginia, a renowned southern educator, died after a brief pneumonia illness late last night.
A public speaker was interrupted as patrons were urged to use Foley's Honey and Tar to cure coughs and colds, with the product praised for preventing pneumonia and consumption. The advertisement notes the remedy contains no opiates and comes in a yellow package.
Mrs. Clara Bloodgood, noted actress, committed suicide by shooting in her room at the Hotel Stafford in Baltimore this evening. Her body was found on the bed with a bullet hole through the roof of her mouth. A revolver with three chambers empty lay nearby, and a book How to Shoot Straight was found beside her. She had attended a matinee at Albaugh's theater earlier in the day and returned to the hotel about 4 PM in apparently good spirits.
An 19th century health remedy titled Pinesalve Carbolized acta Ike claims to draw out inflammation and poison and act as an antiseptic and healer. It is marketed for chapped hands burns and similar ailments and sold by J W Bell in Valhalla and W J Luney in Seneca.
In Worcester Massachusetts on December 6 Edward J McCann aged 36 was found dead in St John’s cemetery. A bottle of potassium cyanide was found in his pocket. He dressed in his best clothes and lay between two grave markers. He had been dead several hours.
Hollister's advertises Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets as a busy medicine for busy people addressing constipation indigestion headaches and growth aches. Genuine by Honrawran Daya Company and marketed to sell in Laurens. The South Carolina Conference (Methodist) will convene next season in Laurens, a city that hosted the body thirteen years ago.
In Monte Carlo on December 6, Vers St Leger Goold and his wife Marie were found guilty of murdering Emma Levin last summer. Marie Goold was sentenced to death and her husband to life imprisonment after evidence showed Emma Levin’s body dismembered and concealed in a trunk and gauze. Goold confessed to the crime, but the court deemed Marie the chief instigator amid conflicting statements. The motive centered on the couple’s needy finances and the victim’s jewelry and money. The trial followed their August flight to Marseilles and the trunk discovery prompted by a hotel porter’s report. The case concluded with a grim verdict and ongoing legal consequences.
Stella Sherman two year old daughter of John Sherman died after falling into a tub of boiling water set in a hole in the yard by a hog butcher. The child, accustomed to pallets, crawled onto a quilt to reach the water and suffered hours before death. A local advertisement promotes Trollinters Rocky Mountain Tea priced 36 cents.
Henry Osborne Havemeyer president of the American Sugar Refining Company died at his Morevale stock farm in Commack after a heart failure. His wife Mia Havemeyer, son Horace, daughter Electra, and Dr L C Erishel were present at the bedside.
Discussion resumes in Congress on refunding back taxes collected on cotton from 1862 to 1868 totaling about 68 million dollars. States including South Carolina and Georgia lean on Heflin's bill to return funds via state treasuries to taxpayers or their heirs amid constitutional questions about the levy. Also notes Foley’s Honey and Tar assurance ad claiming its safety and lack of opiates.
Six men were burned to death and fourteen others were seriously, if not fatally, burned in a fierce blaze that trapped workers near the bore of the new Pennsylvania tunnel running between Homestead, New Jersey, and West Hudson.
A rear end collision between two passenger trains on the Baltimore and Ohio line twelve miles west of Baltimore left five dead and twenty five injured this morning. Four of the deceased are Black. Farmers' Union members in Pickens county discuss plans to build a large cotton mill in Pickens. Dean's Ointment advertised for eczema and itching, claimed to give quick relief and safe use for children.
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