Meditations on May Note From Old Pickens
In May of 1906 readers hear of blooming roses and chores, crops, and county life. Farmers report cotton acreage up, rains improving health, and a cautious forecast of a strong corn and food crop. Mentions include Thomas LK visiting Anderson, Lucius B. Lee’s health, and N. B. Gary.
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Old Pickens
8. C
Lovely May
Keowee
Rivera
Goa
May
Lucius B. Lee
N. B. Gary
Burglars Loot Loui Lotter Vaults on Clark Street
Thieves broke into the strong boxes at Loui Lotter on Clark Street at dawn and removed contents from all boxes. A union statement was not confirmed. Loss estimated at $100,000 in negotiable securities. Robbers disabled the vaults’ combinations in the break-in.
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Chicago
Loui % Lotter
Clark
Bu Life Ward
Negro Problem in America and African Insights
A essayistic critique argues Americans misjudge the African and the Negro in the United States. It contrasts views from Africa, cites Baker and Livingstone, questions emancipation policy, and warns that race cannot coexist under equal governance without study of ethnology and tailored treatment. It urges a respectful, advisory approach rather than ideological dogma.
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Charter Peatiole Adams
Century Magazine
America
White Nile
Africa
United States
New England
Omduram
Baker
Wasting Away due to kidney trouble cured by Foley's Kidney Cure
Robi K Watts of Satom Missouri describes five years of kidney illness and failed treatments until Foley's Kidney Cure, taken over a short period, fully cured him. He notes summer kidney irregularities from overheating and urges audience to attend to kidney health with Foley's remedy.
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Iast
Robi. K. Watts
Satom
Hoak
Foley
Page
We Bolk
Fragmented Reflection on Justice and Society in Early Text
The excerpt discusses justice and policy as difficult to achieve in America, noting the difficulty of observant return from Egypt and the Sudan without doubt about progress. It argues equality arises from practical political systems and conditions, not ideal theory, warning that uniform universalism collapses into chaos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sollow
Egypt
God the Soudan
America
Boots Laxative Honey and Tar Aids Colds and Coughs
The passage touts Boo’s Laxative Honey and Tar as a native forest product not coal tar. It claims it expels colds from the body and is the original remedy for coughs, colds, croup, and bronchial inflammations. Sold by Dr J W Bell in Walbolla and W J Lunney in eda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boo
Hoo
Dr. J. W. Bell
W. J. Lunnoy
Eda
The Barn Owl Protects Fields Through Pest Control
The barn owl fulfils three relations with humans and helps study its diet via disgorged pellets. Analyses show pellets mainly contain mouse, rat, and mole remains. In California its abundance helps curb gophers, while in the South barn owls aid in reducing costly cotton rats in cotton districts, per authorities like Audubon and Bachman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Gopher Ag
Audubon
Bachman
Fair Play News Briefs from Fair Play May 7
Reverend J J Harrol of Westminster led a Presbyterian service in Fair Play church. Dooley and son Will made a business trip to Seneca last week. Zelma Isbell visited the Woottons Saturday and Sunday. E P Callahan stayed in Belton for days helping his ailing mother. Mig Kate Tabell visited sister Mrs Nora Callaham at South Union. Thomas Tabell went to Seneca Sunday. Ge
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Fair Play
J. J. Harrol
Westminster
Presbyterian Church
Mr. Dooley
Will
Seneca
Zelma Isbell
Wootton
E. P. Callahan
Belton
Nua
Mig Kate Tabell
South Union
Nora Callaham
Thomas Tabell
Sam Jones and Whiskey at Atlanta Bijou
Sam Jones in a speech at the Bijou theater Atlanta under the Anti-Saloon League condemned whiskey in a confessional style. He recounted a bright boyhood, marriage to a Kentucky girl, and how whiskey ruined that life, vowing to hate whiskey forever and fight it until death. An ad for a digestive tablet by Drs J W Bell and W J Lunnoy in Walhalla is included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bijou
Atlanta
Anti-Saloon League
Sam Jones
Georgina
Kentucky
Mra
G. W. Gardner
Mra. Gardner
Greenwood Journal
Memorial Notice for Nellie Eunice Moore 1906
Memoriam from Valhalla Methodist Sunday School praising Nellie Eunice Moore who died April 24, 1906 at age twelve. The class notes life’s uncertainty, loyalty of the deceased as a faithful member, sympathy to her family, and assigns a page in the minute book to her memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Callanto
Nellie Eunice Moore
Mina Lillia Byrd
Valhalla Methodist
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Abe
Ourter
Say— Jaynes, Shel Sm, Gmith & Bteok
Tate
Dnerway, Maw Ia
Boary
Ammerica
Bida
John Ball
Apartaman
Justin
Ash
Livingstone
Soudan
Uganda
Hamlet
Anr
Barn Owl
Gardus
Mos West
Webster
Fair Play News
Whiskey
J. W. Bell
Walhalla
Sones
Nellie Eunior Moorn
F. S. Royster
You Mooney
Carter & Co
Walhaila
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