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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1907
Page
9
A Racine Wisconsin producer named Shoop introduced Health Coffee Imitation described as the largest coffee imitation yet made. The doctor says it can be prepared in a minute and contains pure toasted coroola grains with malt and nuts. It is noted as not containing real coffee and could fool an expert if mistaken for coffee.
American sculptor F Wellington Rucketuhl, designer of the Hampton equestrian statue, visited Clemson College last week. He lectured on Great Art and What Makes It Great and observed Kort Hill to set the statue’s mood before carving John C Calhoun. Nearby, Bee’s Laxative Cough Syrup advertises relief for coughs and colds and is sold in multiple towns. Georgia news notes a Christmas possum fattened for President Roosevelt, shipped from Gaines to Washington. Confederate General Longstreet is mentioned as a widow.
Fragmentary report details a December assault on a white woman near a boarding house in the incorporated limits heading toward Glenn Springs. Names Massey and Hecknell appear among those charged. description rough with unclear times and locations.
A Wall Street Journal study notes annual cotton mill wages in South Carolina total at least 12 million dollars, roughly a million monthly, fueling local buying power and mercantile growth. The flow benefits farmers through higher crop prices and revitalizes investment in the Piedmont region as mills draw labor and demand across surrounding communities.
A warning urges not to seek remedies from unknown preparations for coughs and colds as danger may lie in unknown medicines. Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs colds and prevents pneumonia, sold in a yellow package with genuine label. Substitutes should be refused at all druggists.
Little Lillie Sheriff aged nearly fourteen passed away Wednesday morning at 3 o'clock in Seneca Florida after a long illness. She never walked, born with illness, cared for by loving parents and family who endured her sufferings with devotion. Funeral services were led by Rev McCain, burial in Friendship Cemetery, with heartfelt sympathy extended to the family.
A telephone survey from Beychel Pa reports a bridge over the north branch of the Sunjiehanna river at Millville was undermined and collapsed. Thirty six men were on the bridge, twenty five injured, four bodies recovered, and nineteen unaccounted for as the old structure sank at a rate of one foot per hour.
A Seattle reader, Dee Lie J G Mosler, returns from Alaska claiming a Lake of Gold with nuggets valued over 150000 dollars. He says Indians guard the lake, worship a water body, and that he briefly retrieved nuggets after entering the lake. He also notes a prior Indian incident and the legend surrounding the place. Trial Starrh treatments are offered free by Dr Shoop for catarrh, advertised by J W Bell.
The crop report from the bureau of statistics estimates U S cotton production for 1970 at 5 581 968 000 pounds or 11 679 000 bales of 600 pounds. State outputs include Virginia 14 000 North Carolina 604 000 South Carolina 1 091 000 Georgia 1 898 000 Florida 64 000 Alabama 1 216 000 Mississippi 1 636 000 Louisiana 712 000 Texas 2 490 000 Arkansas 96 000 Tennessee 298 000 Missouri 40 000 Oklahoma 910 000. The notice also includes an unrelated health ad for Hollister's Rocky Mountaineer product.
In Deadwood, cow boy Dee s Bernard Prentice is killed and cook Dick Moran is wounded after a duel sparked by a quarrel over Bonnie Fowler and Belle Haske. Ten other women narrowly escape being shot as five shots ring out. Prentice dies instantly from a head wound while Moran is struck in the chest.
In Somerville, investigators discovered two young children drowned in a bath inside a tenement on December 11. The victims named Mal Huntley and Gib Murk Huntley appear to have been held underwater until they died, with the scene described as a double tragedy evident in the improvised bath.
Norfolk Va December 13 John R Walker resigns as secretary of the North Carolina Pine Association and president of the Southern Immigration Society to live among the poorer class with wife Virginia McBlair Walker They vow to work and share their lifestyle while studying conditions of laborers Also mentions Cornelia McBlatt and a testimonial for Burdock Blood Bitters from J H Walker Sunbury Ohio.
The Southern Railway offers one third first class one way fare plus 25 cents for round trips to points south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi, including Washington and Cincinnati. Tickets on sale December 20 to 31 and December 30 to January 1, with travel valid until January 6 after departure. Chicago chosen as site for next National Republican Convention.
The Farmers' Union warehouse at Taylor Texas burned destroying about 2000 bales of cotton. Damage estimated at 126000 dollars, with the loss covered by insurance.
Surgeon General Rixey of the navy announced today that the operation on Mrs. Nicholas Longworth for appendicitis has been perfectly successful. He said her condition is satisfactory.
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