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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1906
Page
8
A Philadelphia Public Ledger note recounts a high‑minded collector visiting a wealthy man who claimed to help neighbors far away while owning vast land. The collector quotes the man’s question about how far land ownership extends, leading the millionaire to realize his obligation to aid nearby neighbors and he signs a generous subscription.
The Charleston scene features a lawyers joke about a jack-leg carpenter and a witness in a case. The narrative mocks pettifogging counsel and praises farmers who sell bread and meat at home, suggesting they hold better credit and more money after debts are paid than cotton growers.
In Quitman Texas on December 28 a negro allegedly attempted to assault Mrs. James Bateman, daughter of Representative Blalock, who had married two weeks earlier. The assailant fought with a knife but fled as a posse closes in, with his fate upon capture undetermined.
General Booth reports George Herring donated $600000 to the Salvation Army to aid home colonization. The Army will repay in twenty five annual installments to the King's hospital fund. Also reported is a December 28 fire in Newberry destroying the Carolina Coffin Company's plant and losses totaling about 100000 with 50000 estimated for the coffin shop and 20000 insurance. Clarence Pinson, 30, killed by a train near Blacksburg on Monday night while visiting his father.
Abraham Stummel a New York lawyer was convicted December 20 of perjury in the Dodge Morse divorce litigation and given the maximum penalty one year in prison and a $500 fine. He was jailed at the Tombs before awaiting penitentiary. Also noted, Will Carter a 17 year old colored man was hanged December 20 at Kenansville North Carolina for aggravated assault on a six year old girl. Death occurred by strangulation in about twenty three minutes.
An advertisement extols Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as a universal remedy for neuralgia and various pains including headache backache and rheumatism. It cites a testimonial from a cashier at a bank in Atkinson Nebraska and asserts rapid relief and no after effects, urging readers to try the product.
Chicago stores thirty million dozen eggs or 860 million eggs and thirty million pounds of butter in 50 000 tuba, all locked in cold-storage vaults. Dealers say Western hens will lay enough eggs to keep Chicago stocked through most of winter, signaling the largest dairy accumulation in city history.
A newspaper exchange mixed two reader questions causing a bizarre misprint. The "Answers to Correspondence" column wrongly swapped the response for a worried mother about her child with a harmful onion pickling recipe. Readers react to the error and the compositor's misstep.
A collection of brief anecdotes and quips ranging from a Georgia Representative Adamson encountering a North Carolina crowd and learning Jim Johnson died suddenly to a Florida Times Union recollection of a preacher burden prompt and local reactions. It notes a London Agricultural Hall dairy show with a rapid butter churn and ends with a set of riddles and wordplay.
A colored woman visited her church pastor to complain about her husband. She labeled him a "low-down, worthless, trifling Black person." The minister asked if she had tried heaping coal of fire on his head. She replied she had not tried hot water.
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