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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1911
Page
6
Keowee Courier notes section policy on personal character communications and obituaries. Free up to one hundred words. tributes beyond incur one cent per word. Advertising rates, subscription price, and printing details are listed.
Public notice outlines the U S Canada reciprocity treaty figures from the Department of Commerce and Labor. It lists imports from Canada and exports to Canada across decades since 1840 and highlights principal articles such as coal, timber, cotton, metals, chemicals, and food products. It also notes domestic production exports to Canada for 1940 including coal, cotton, steel, automobiles, and machinery.
A fragmented discussion argues men lie in the South as elsewhere but fail to grow due to eating the wrong foods. It claims bones muscles blood and other tissues come from specific nutrients and that animals cannot exceed what their feed allows.
A historical summary notes bubonic plague origins from Hongkong in 1894 to 1910 outbreaks in Harbin and England coasts. It explains transmission via rats and fleas, diferencias between bubonic and pneumonic forms, and highlights growing global threat and scientific findings on spread.
The text warns of peach tree borers present in orchards and urges immediate action. It describes boring into the tree base with a knife to remove infested dirt and emphasizes the borers’ destructive impact, noting thousands of trees are killed if ignored.
A massive blaze in White Springs kills six and destroys much of the business district with an estimated loss of 1 billion dollars. Five firefighters are injured. one remains trapped for over an hour. In Donalsonville the Nicholls Hotel kitchen fire causes near total destruction of the city’s business core, likely from a gasoline stove explosion. the Sisters of Charity convent is also heavily damaged but inmates survive.
An elderly hermit in Springfield, aged about 50s, on his death bed confesses to relatives that he hid away 348,000 in his house. No will exists. He has worked as a carpenter and contractor.
In a letter from Keowee Courier editor, a visit to Raven Rock in Oconee county is described. The writer and a friend trek Chauga River into a six mile square uninhabited wilderness with towering pines, beech, and laurel. Raven Rock rises about 200 feet above the stream, with ancient trees and a rich undergrowth making travel difficult. The piece blends natural description with reflections on beauty and a dash of poetry. Also noted is the death of Gen. Wet. Cabell in Dallas Texas after a long illness.
The list shows Bethel High School honor roll by grade. Names include First Grade Hugh Brown Eunice Elis Millie Gibson Julia King Walter King Mary Pitts Clarence Taylor and others across grades with several hyphenated or misspelled entries. A later February 17 segment lists Ovaline Kelley Rene Grogan Edwina Kelley Callie Nicholson Rankin Joe Grogan Cornelia Wesley Lilian Kelley Marion Kelley Myrtle Douthit and a teacher credited.
The South Carolina Student Volunteer Convention began its annual session at Winthrop College on Monday night with notable speakers. Miss Willon Terry, famed actress, lectured on Shakespeare’s Heroines, Trimphant and Pathetic, in the college auditorium. Saturday featured a musical concert by Creature and his band. Dr J P Kinard and Miss Sarah Withers report an English grammar project for state adoption, while horticulture expands to general agriculture as a compulsory sophomore study.
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