Turnip Farming Tips From a Farmers Union Newsletter
A fragmented 19th century agricultural note details turnip farming in North Carolina and Aberdeen areas. It covers crop timing from August to September, soil preparation, seed depth, and annual cultivation. Advice includes storing part of the crop, feeding livestock, hoeing, rolling, and using phosphate and potash. It warns of past dry falls and stresses planning for winter forage and market notes. The piece blends practical agronomy with digressive anecdotes about cotton and market chatter.
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North Carolina
Horaca
Landa
Merrow
Phil
Neil
Monkey Min This Winged Creature From Texas Cave Monster
A damaged passage describes a two foot creature named Monkey Min with bird like wings and feathers on part of its body and hair on the rest. It is alleged to be over ten years old and living with two dogs, with a freak appearance and feathered wings.
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Bexny Emurty
Bible Study Contest Offers Prizes and Diplomas
The Keowee Courier invites Keowee County readers to join a Bible study contest run by the International Press Bible Question Club. Four classes join by quarter, with medals, Bibles, and copies of The Heart of Christianity as prizes. Participants must complete 12 weeks, answer written questions, and submit coupons and responses for judging.
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Keaven Conthor
Moct
International Press Bible Question Club
Menapapere
Clive A
Clas Ci
Keowee Courter
Clara OC
Ron
oMige
Dean's Kidney Pills Edge Back Pain and Dizziness
Mrs Mary M Hund of Walhalla South Carolina reports severe kidney and back pain with dizziness and headaches improving after taking Dean's Kidney Pills from Dr Bell's drug store. She endorses the remedy highly and notes price is 60 cents with Foxter Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents under the Donn's name.
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Dean
Walhalla
Mary M. Hund
Broad Street
8. C
Waya
Apelle
Dr. Bell
Foxter-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Donn
The Year Without a Simmer Reveals 1816’s Harsh Winter
A Grenville News item cites a Boston Congregationalist account detailing 1816 as a severe year with cold, snow, late planting, and wide frost damage across Vermont New York Massachusetts and Maine. It notes winds from the north and scant rain, plus early searches for wood and heavy mittens. It also advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming a universal cure with a money-back guarantee and testimonials, urging readers to send for details.
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Grenville News
Toston Congregationalia
Rome
Myo
Vermont
Malno
Tres
New York
Massachusetts
Kothor
Une
New Bangford
Tewesbury
Niguetehbors Tool
Netehberhead
Keeowre Courier Membership Notice and Address Request
From now to August closing of the Bible Question Club Contest, sign and enclose a dollar to become a member. Name 545 and address provided as requested. no further details given in the fragment.
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Keowre Courier
Bible Question Club
Taft era medicine ad claims Foley remedies as top cures
An advertisement extols Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and Foley Kidney Pills as the best known medicines, citing medical recognition and long standing use. It lists retailers across towns and mentions various local residents, visits, and social notes amidst the ad copy.
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Taft
Foley
Jey
Tot Pell at the Hot Weather Weather Toll Appears High
A weather recap notes extreme heat and widespread distress across various regions. Reports describe numerous heat related deaths and prostrations as officials tally casualties and monitor temperatures amid a wave of July heat.
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New
Atlantic
Palos States
STEAM SHOVEL ACCIDENT AT ORCHARD NEAR MOBILE
At Orchard 11 miles from Mobile on the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago railroad a steam shovel overturned. Engineer W Doolittle of Newton Mississippi and a black worker Lee Bonna of Waynesboro Mississippi were killed. Cottrell of Meridian Mississippi and a white fireman Walla were severely injured. Authorities rushed the injured to Wilmer and Montgomery while the dead were taken home. Doolittle and Bonna died at the wreck site.
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Mobile
Ala
New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago
Orchard
Doolittle
Newton
Miss
Lee Bonna
Waynesboro
Mise
Iilled
Meo Cottrell
Meridfon
Mica
Walla
Painter’s hair raising descent from smoking smokestack blaze
Pittsburg scene shows Ghrig Sinkas a 36 year old stad painter at the Westinghouse plant climbing down a burning rope above the ground while flames lap his clothing. He used the rope to slow his fall and beat out the fire with his other hand, suffering severe burns to his right arm chest and face as an explosion sparked by a lighter and naphtha ignited the accident.
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Pittsburg
Ghrig Sinkas
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
East Pittsburg
Sinkas
Southern railway tragedy claims dog and driver
A Southern railway train struck a dog in Danville as it returned to fetch the animal. The dog named Clark was killed and the driver was injured, taken to a hospital after the collision near Oilselty. Authorities cleared the tracks thereafter.
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Danville
Indy
Clark
Southern Railway
Clayvk
Towa
Ambiguous pardon noted for Clinton Rhoden shooter case
A 1910-era legal note reports W J Glenn and WB Glown involved in a Clinton Rhoden shooting at Badexbure winery near diving Marc. It states a conviction and a two year term in the State penitentiary, but notes a permanent parole granted by Governor Mease without serving time.
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WB. Glown
Clinton Rhoden
Badexbure
Marc
State Penitentiary
Mease
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