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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1905
Page
3
A white woman, found in a house near Mills mill, reported a white man entered her home in a drunken state and held a pistol while she was shaved with a razor. He allegedly shaved hair and eyebrows and cut eyelashes with scissors. Officers were called but no arrests made as investigators continue.
In Raleigh Superior Court two young men Allen and Ennis Brogden faced assault charges after a saga of twin lovers Zelma and Zebba Rudd wooing cousins Ardell Ray and Eloise Kay. The couples fled to obtain licenses, argued with relatives, and nearly sparked a pistol fight before wedlock. Belton Poor of Woodstock, Ga., accidentally shot himself while chanting last week.
Denver experimenters trapped a fox terrier in cotton and gamphor then released him near Pablo farm. He vanished by daybreak and reappeared at his Denver boarding house 80 miles away, despite no scent or landmarks guiding him. Also notes a San Francisco piece praising negro history and ex Congressmen Simpson ill in Wichita.
The article notes 48 percent of cotton mills in recent years are non-greated, with 405 built south of the Mason-Dixon line. At Atlantic City the New England Cotton Manufacturers discussed expanding markets as Southern mills drive progress, boosting exports to over 50 million dollars last year, up 800 percent in a decade, while a New York Stock Exchange seat sold for 55 thousand dollars.
Excerpts describe a Civil War skirmish on the Nine Mile road where black troops breach a line and trigger a cavalry pursuit. The mass stampede of fleeing enslaved soldiers outruns Gary’s cavalry, with shots fired as they flee. The passage contrasts a brutal melee with vivid evocations of running and wind in the treetops. Also notes Peder Alvarado planning a marble monument for his wife containing silver and mine output of $100,000 weekly.
The piece laments idle girls who waste time and burdened mothers, contrasting household duties with late nights, then shifts to geopolitics noting a Russo Japanese war consequence. It also cites the American Public Health Association affirming yellow fever transmission by the Aedes mosquito and the need for rapid reporting and community cooperation.
A fragment from the Christian World promotes cutting out and pasting a ready reference for Bible reading. It lists archaic and modern equivalents for journeys, measures, and values such as a Sabbath day’s journey, cubit, hand, finger, shekel, talent, penny, mite, gerah, ephah, bath, bin, and omer with approximate English and monetary equivalents.
August Belmont, prominent New York banker and millionaire, lies critically ill with appendicitis in the city. In Warren Ohio a livery stable fire killed one man and fatally injured two others that week. A Springfield South Carolina bank vault was dynamited last week, with burglars escaping carrying 5200 dollars.
Street Railway Employees union in Chicago used automobiles to convey passengers during a strike. The late Frances Willard’s birthday was celebrated nationwide by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union last Thursday.
Nellie, visiting the seashore, watches waves roll and asks her mother what the big gray-haired lumps bobbing up and down are. The moment captures a child’s curious first impression of the ocean’s moving masses.
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