UP ON LITTLE RIVER FARM NEWS AND MISCELLANY
The Little River community reports good plowing weather and notes on local illness and sympathy. J B Collins remains ill, Ruby Perry improves though Naomi stays sick, and John Coward travels to Salem. The Crow couple lost their first child, a cause of sorrow among neighbors, with burials at Whitmire's cemetery. A reward is offered for vandals who damaged a saw mill boiler. Thomas P Alexander and Miss Bessie Smith wed at the bride’s Salem home, with holly decor and autoharp music, then church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little River
Med
J. B. Collins
Ruby Perry
Naomi
John Coward
Whitewater
Salem
Major Crow
Whitmire’s
J. C. Shockie
Darkey
Thomas P. Alexander
Bessie Smith
W. M. Talley
Mr. Talley
Pickens
Navy appropriations bill advances with 1 058 428 extra
Senator Hale and the naval affairs committee report the navy support bill to the Senate carrying 12 dollars per member of 1 058 428 over the House version. No change is made to the batteship construction plan of two 26 000 ton vessels and the marine corps is kept in its current role aboard battleships and other ships.
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Washington
Hale
Committee On Naval Affairs
Senate
House
Marine Corps
Husband and Wife Remarry After 85 Years apart in Birmingham
Major Charles Wheelock a Birmingham figure and Mrs Eliza Wheelock long separated with he her living in California were remarried in Birmingham today The couple first wed in Las Vegas Mexico over fifty years ago Their children say the family has sought to reunite them and today the long romance culminated in a second wedding witnessed by the citys prominent citizens
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Charles Wheelock
Eliza Wheelock
California
Wheelock
Las Vegas
Mexico
Major Whetock
Sovereign Lowe Found Guilty in Wife Murder Case
Aiken February 11 The jury found Sovereign Lowe guilty of murdering his wife Mrs Rainey Lowe after under two hours deliberation The verdict includes a mercy recommendation which could spare his life Lowe awaits sentencing to determine a life term
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Aiken
Sovereign
Rainey Lowe
Lowe
Death of Sarah A Wilson in Whitewater at age 74
Mrs. Sarah Ann Wilson died February 5 after long illness in Whitewater. Born Moody, she was 74 years old, with five decades of family ties and two marriages. Survived by children and a large kin network, she was a longtime Methodist. Also notes Calhoun statue progress with clay model in Italy, marble carving in six months, to be placed in Washington Capitol by September and unveiled in December.
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Whitewater
Sarah Ann Wilson
Methodist Church
Moody
Martin Moody
George Coward
Jackson County
North Carolina
Richmond
Wm. Wilson
States
B. J. Moody
Salem
Mes
Elizabeth Rochester
Ocala
N.C
Paris
Italy
Ruckstuhl
New York
Florence
Capitol
Washington
Tns
Shot at Bennett school by two boys endangers pupils
In Landrum near Spartanburg two boys visited the Bennett school and frightened the female students with outrageous conduct. One boy fired a shotgun into the crowd, striking Miss Smith in the face though she was distant, and escaped serious injury.
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Spartanburg
Landrum
Bennett
Miss Smith
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Claims
A letter from Louisville Kentucky reports that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound healed irregularities dizziness and a severe female ailment avoiding surgery. Adrian Georgia woman credits the remedy with curing female troubles without operation. The note cites decades of testimonials endorsing the product as a remarkable cure for women's health issues.
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Louisville
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Sam’s
Lee
Fourth St
Adrian
Lena V. Henry
Dean's Kidney Pills Advertises Kidneys Health
An old advertisement claims days of dizziness headaches and rheumatic pains signal kidney trouble. It cites Mrs. Clara Hines of Greenville South Carolina praising Dean's Kidney Pills from FosterMilburn Co Buffalo New York as effective. Also notes Roosevelt spanking anecdote from Greely Colorado with Theodor Roosevelt as a youth and a 14 year old German lesson during boxing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Clara Hines
Townes Street
Greenville
S. C
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
Roosevelt
Greely
Colo
Germany
Minckwitz
White House
Cotton Ginned Totals Rise In Early February Report
Memphis report cites 12 814 000 bales ginned to February 6, up from 10 593 000 a year ago. Since January 16, 147 000 bales were added. Ginning largely finished across most counties in Mississippi Arkansas and Texas with Oklahoma still some activity before most gins close down.
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Memphis
Tenn
National Ginners' Association
Mississippi
Arkansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Million Share Sale Aims to Fund West Boston Mill
Boston February 11. Eugene N Foss and associates plan to offer one million dollars in stock to the public to finance the Recipro city Mills a great cotton mill and power plant in West Boston. Promoters say the project will boost Boston trade and every employee will share in profits and sit on the board of directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Eugene N. Foss
What Is the Difference in a Christmas Present
A Chicago Poem presents a humorous dialogue where two men debate the difference between gifts and wishes. One man notes a wife buying a pale pink smoking jacket for a dry goods store purchase before Christmas after many bridge parties. The other questions the setup, and the final punchline shows one pays for the present while the other prays for the peasant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Brotherhood of Man
Foley's Kidney Remedy urged for urinary irregularities
A German chemical hexamethylenetetramine is cited as a uric acid solvent and antiseptic in Foley's Kidney Remedy. The notice, attributed to J. W. Bell of Valhalla and Stonecypher Pharmacy in Westminster, urges taking the remedy at first signs of irregularity to avoid serious illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Bell
Valhalla
Stonecypher Pharmacy
Westminster
Greeks Supplant Negroes near Spartanburg labor shift
In Spartanburg on February 12 J C Dunn, contractor for the Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio road, engaged 100 Greeks to work at camps near Pacolet and Broad River. Forty Greeks arrived last night and began work this morning with 60 more due Monday. Dunn cited unreliability of colored labor as causing delays.
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Spartanburg
J.C. Dunn
Carolina, Clinchfield and
Ohio
Pacolet
Broad River
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Thornwell
Carter
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