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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1905
Page
7
A collage of letters and notices from Stamp Crack and Long Creek sections recounts local church events, Easter egg hunts, and school activities. Mentions include Devoe paint promotions, family visits, a Rabun County wedding, and community updates from G. Vaughan and Miss Bertha Eubanks.
Southern Railway announces very low round trip rates for the South Atlantic State Munio Festival in Spartanburg. Fares apply from Atlanta Athens Elberton Greensboro Asheville Charlotte Columbia and from Charleston Savannah to designated endpoints with May 1 2 8 and 4 travel dates and a final ticket limit of May 6 2005. Contact any railway agent or Brooks Gorgan AQP Atlanta Ga for rates and information.
Oakway reports Rev J J Spink filled his regular Methodist church appointment. A large crowd attended the Master egg hunt. Local students and families, including Misses Un and Cordelia Bearden, visit Texas relatives. Principal B W Stafford and Miss Ian Gaines oversee a flourishing school. Several residents visited Greenville and Anders won the week.
A long read on the ideal farmer's wife by Mrs. Cary of Lockhart, detailing economic, educational, and domestic roles. It argues she should be industrious yet cheerful, prudent with debt, and equal in the family purse while supporting her husband and children's growth.
An OCR fragment promotes Murray's Iron Mixture claiming to purify blood and cure tired features. Mentions Murray Drug Company of Columbia and a dated line April 26, with garbled legal text referencing a will and court actions.
A reminiscence recalls General Robert E. Lee at Summit hosting a Virginia dinner. He sipped water over julep, declined coffee, and sent every coffee abroad to hospitals. A poor woman’s inquiry about her son Dolly prompts Lee to offer help by name, company, and command. The piece also notes inventor J. M. Cockrell Jr. and a sugar industry machine, plus cotton sales in Greenwood with rising bale counts and warehouse holdings.
Public appeal urges cotton farmers to cut acreage to stabilize prices and prevent a future crop surplus. Warns against waiting for neighbors or weather to reduce supply, stresses a moderate next year crop and cites demand, buyer cooperation, and world need as factors guiding policy.
A triple hanging occurred in the Witteburg jail yard this morning at 10:20. Walter Obey, Charles Jackson, and Charles Miles were hanged for the murder of Tvan Kulzor on May 8 prior, after robbing him on a lonely road. all three confessed in writing.
New York April 98 A broad rise in premiums for life policies was announced by major insurers. Ordinary life policies see increases of five to six percent, while limited payment and endowment policies rise three to five percent. Changes follow complaints from holders of participating policies about the gap between nonparticipating rates and dividends received by participants.
A two minute cyclone damaged Union Cotton Mills No. 2 spinning room blowing in a 100 foot wall and tearing roof. One worker John Campbell age 20 was seriously injured. Eight spinning frames damaged. Estimated damage 85,000. Bethel A M E church valued 1,500 and Presbyterian church 1,000 in Monarch demolished. Ben Jonnie church lifted from pillars but not badly damaged. No damage at Buffalo.
Ten miners were killed instantly when a rope broke at the Conyngham mine of the Delaware and Hudson Company in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania. The cage fell 400 feet to the bottom as rescuers found the men beneath debris. The rope inspection revealed the line was sound, but the catcher failed to engage. The deceased included Polea and two English speaking miners. The Belton Power Company dam nearing completion.
A vintage advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion, urging customers to request the product by name while noting others may be offered as substitutes. It claims three decades of rising sales and insists the emulsion remains superior to any substitute.
Pearl Girant of York is listed with seven BOs and a payment of $1.00 for a drugglate sample from the Scott & Bowne chemists record.
A fragmented passage outlines curious facts about Japan including language hints the Mikado title the crown prince Yoahi Mito and cultural notes. It mentions Japanese dress court life travel habits bathing cleanliness and tea or chopstick customs. It ends noting Japan has a large steamship company with routes to the United States and England via Suez.
Smurts, a young US Navy deserter, was captured with four white men allegedly linked to a robbery at the residence of Assistant Superintendent Tonchatone of Seneca Cotton Mill. He was transferred to Walhalla for custody, then held for trial, with plans to send him to Portmouth after the General Sessions Court in Oconee County.
A fragment from Cinolae and Commercial Tribune shows a milliner demanding a higher price, replying with a firm retort and ordering a wrap up the sale. The dealer asserts a new figure of 11 dollars and 9 cents.
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