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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1907
Page
6
Fragmentary monthly column titled Our Schpods appears with a jumbled intro about rural districts depopulation and South Man’s prosperity. It mentions a mailing address to Miss Marye KR in Bielor Westinln South Carolina for communications.
Readers praise Miss M R Shelor for promoting school improvements through Courter lessons and agricultural programs. Messages from Alabama Texas and Massachusetts applaud practical ideas and book donations, while the Newman Sunshine Club encourages rural uplift and active involvement in farmers institutes and reading bullets.
An 19th century advertisement claims deafness can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It blames inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube for hearing loss and offers 100 dollars for any catarrh deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and cites J J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
Captain Delorest Chandler of the United States Signal Corps decries recent balloon mishaps in Washington. He says inexperience mostly to blame as aeronauts take flight without full mastery, recalling a tailor tale about a novice who wanted two pairs of rowing pants with sliding Beals.
L. F. Hightower of Anson County shot and killed his aged mother last night and, after telephoning for a physician, cut his own throat this morning at 9 oclock. He had been drinking for several days and appeared not to understand the act.
Mrs. J. B. Chatfield led a temperance booth at the Alabama State Fair distributing literature and white ribbons. Officials ordered cessation, deputies warned, and signs favoring prohibition were torn down by fair policemen. Sheriff Hood intervened to ensure peace while supporters criticized management.
Thorn ton Oakley in Harper's November recalls a mountain town scene on a Spanish railway. A fat man wedged at the door of a third class car, his cassock torn, glass and cigars spilled, as guards and onlookers pull him free and the crowd scatters.
A short lived northwest storm in ston Texas brought about seventy two mph winds for two minutes. One woman was killed in a falling house. About twenty frame houses were blown down and twenty people injured. Several businesses unroofed and goods damaged while the Mallory line wharf shed suffered substantial losses. Some railroad yard cars were derailed.
An old advertisement claims Foley’s Kidney Cure can cure any kidney or bladder trouble within medical reach. Endorsed by J. W. Bell, the note urges universal remembrance that no one is immune.
A Prohibition era article urges statewide ban as the only solution to state crime. It argues local option fails, cites violence and corruption, and calls for a unified prohibition policy to protect the state's civilization and future. The piece also notes a Brunswick Georgia incident involving a policeman's wife and a relapse after a fright.
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