State Board raises rail valuation basis to true value in SC
South Carolina officials voted to assess railroad property at true market value, projecting total state railroad property value around 63.5 million dollars, up from 82.0 million last year. The Atlantic Coast Line and Southern Railway systems lead gains per mile, with hearings set for June 19 to address protests and future express telegraph streetcar and Pullman assessments. The board also plans to seek federal law on weights and measures oversight.
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State Board of Railroad Aa
Yenteron
South Carolina
Comproller
Jones
McCown
Jennings
Lyon
Atlantic Coast Line
Atlanta
Charlotte Air Line
Charleston
Western Carolina
Seaboard Air Line System
Southern Railway
Carolina
State
Blue Ridge Railroad
Pickens Railroad
Pullman Car Company
Glycerine in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
A promotional notice praising gly cerine as a key, non alcoholic component enhancing the medicine's effects on digestion, coughs, bronchial and laryngeal troubles, and general strength. It cites Prof Finley Ellingwood and Dr R V Moree for endorsements, notes limited cures in advanced consumption, and invites readers to request a free booklet.
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Pierce
Finley Ellingwood
Bonnets Med. College
Chicago
Golden Medical
R. V. Moree
Muftalo, N
Love Among the Flowers wedding ends in airy tale and elation
Quill and Violet wed in a lush garden church wedding with Royal Meadow guest, banners of laurel and fragrant plants. The ceremony features Sweet William and Violet, with foster-child Mary's sobs, a scenic voyage by airship, and a focus on Bee's Laxative Cough Syrup promotion tucked amid the romance. The cast includes John Quill as best man, Althea, Jack Bean, and Mag-Nolta, with Violet in lavender and heliotrope, and a vow to quit tobacco for love.
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Violet
William
Rose
Woodbine
John
Miler
Susie
Rose-Mary
Jacob
John Quill
Sweet Althea
Jack Bean
Mary
Sistar Pansy
Speaker Cannon Visits Birthplace in Greensboro May 28
Speaker Joe G. Cannon arrived from Washington and was met by Greensboro and Guilford College committees. He visited his birthplace and Guilford battlefield, attended the alumni banquet, will deliver the college commencement address, and join a city dinner in his honor. Also notes Foley’s Kidney Cure as remedy.
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Greensboro
N. C
Joe G. Cannon
National House of Representatives
Washington
Guilford College
Guilford Battle Ground
City
Big Distillery Destroyed in Greenville Raid
In Greenville county near Tryon two miles from the town, Deputy Collector Merrick and deputies Gosnell with Constables Cody and Goldsmith captured three men and destroyed a large distillery outfit during an early morning raid. The prisoners, after a brief preliminary hearing before Commissioner Blythe, were jailed in default of $300 bail each. A May 4 capture preceded by clashes with moonshiners left one of yesterday’s arrestees in common with a prior escapee group. In Cayce, Lexington county, Sheriff Hood fatally shot Frank Johnson during a hand to hand encounter while attempting to arrest him for assault in the Rion quarry matter. Johnson had tried to shoot the sheriff and was shot again after collapsing. Deputy Sheriff Gilbert was wounded fatally in the course of the incident.
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Greenville
Merrick
Gosnell
Cody
Goldsmith
Tryon
Blythe
Columbia
Frank Johnson
Cayce
Lexington County
Hood
Fairfield
Johnson
John Beaucham
Rion
Gilbert
Gift to Agnes Scott College in Atlanta by Samuel M Inman
Samuel M Inman of Atlanta offers to fund a new fully equipped building for Agnes Scott College for Young Women in Decatur with the cost not less than 650000, contingent on friends raising 50000 before January 1 1909 announced at the college's annual commence ment exercises. King's Little Liver Pills advertised with claims of curing headache and constipation and general family use sold by Dr J W Bell and J Lunney.
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Atlanta
Friends of Agnes Scott College For
Decatur
Samuel M. Inman
J. W. Bell
Valhalla
Jd. Lunney
Seneca
D. B. Johnson
Rock Hill
Negro Boy Hanged for Assault at McDonough Ga
Buck High, a 15 year old Black youth, was hanged at 10 20 am for the assault of a four year old girl. Sheriff A C Powell carried out the execution in eleven minutes, with Dr C D McDonald pronouncing death. The girl’s father Daniel witnessed the scene. High had been hired by the father to care for the child. He claimed the girl fell from a wagon, then confessed. The child remains permanently injured.
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High
Georgia Day Souvenir Plate for President Roosevelt
A gold engraved plate from a Georgia mine near Bulloch Hall will be presented to President Roosevelt as a Georgia Day souvenir. The piece features Bulloch Hall graphics and the Georgia coat of arms and will be presented at the White House.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Roosevelt
Bulloch Hall
Bulloch
White House
Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought
An OCR fragment mentions a familiar phrase tied to a product or brand, suggesting a historical ad snippet. The readable portion hints at a standard marketing slogan and generic commerce context without clear names, dates, or locations. Further readable details are unavailable in this fragment.
Dastardly Crime in Chesterfield
In Chesterfield on a plantation owned by Dr. A. M. Redfern a violent attempted assault on the 165 year old daughter of overseer J. W. Threatt by Ned Cash occurred as she hunted eggs. Threatt fired at Cash, striking him in the head, and Cash was captured with bloodhounds nearby. He is jailed. no prior offenses are known.
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Chesterfield
Mr. Threatt
Ofiours
Cash
Spain
Snow Liniment Cures Old Sores Says Woman Cancer Fear
A Kansas woman reports Snow Liniment cured an old chin sore mistaken for cancer. She asks for a 600 bottle for her sister in Pennsylvania. Local druggists Walhalla Drug Co and W. J. Lunney sell the product.
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Westmoreland
Kans
Ballard Snow Liniment Co
Sophia J. Carson
Allenavilla
Miffin County
Walhalla [Drug Co
W. J. Lunney
Seneca
Important Decision by Judge Brawley in Contract Labor Case
District Attorney Cochran reports from Charleston that Judge W. H. Brawley of the United States circuit court ruled the South Carolina labor law unconstitutional. He ordered the release of prisoners in Charleston jail held for labor contract violations, a ruling with statewide impact. Attorneys Logan and Graces had challenged the law as peonage and unconstitutional.
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Charleston County
Logan
Gracs
United States Circuit Court
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