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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1907
Page
9
The Keowee Courier announces weekly publication by Jaynes Bhelor Smith and Steck with a one dollar annual subscription. Obituary notices up to one hundred words are printed free. longer tributes are charged at one cent per word, with cash accompanying manuscripts.
The Philadelphia Ledger quotes rail executives estimating vagrancy costs at about 25 to 26 million yearly. The Norfolk and Western police its property with 200 plus officers, detectives on each train, and checks on tramps at stops. Tramps are categorized into four classes, with the most dangerous being the true tramp who robs and steals while riding.
At the last Minneapolis meeting a movement was begun to secure the cooperation of railways charitable societies and all other public organisations in an attack upon the tramp.
The documented will, dated January 1902 and released by bankruptcy receiver Nathan Loeser, details Chadwick's planned distribution of over a million dollars to family, servants, and ten institutions including the Humane Society and Western Reserve University. It envisions Chadwick Memorial Funds and Chadwick buildings, though later events revoked it and made it inoperative.
The piece argues for hot plates as a modern dining standard while condemning cold plates as an outdated holdover. It cites examples of food served on cold plates at some venues, critiques slack service, and endorses hot plates as a rational upgrade reflecting current conditions and hospitality.
A circulated dinner anecdote recounts Mark Twain agreeing to a claim about memory differences between races. The story pits a colored old man against Washington crossing the Delaware with a boast about steering the boat and pulling the cherry tree punishment, illustrating a humorous memory clash.
The Bordeaux consul reports peanuts and arachide oil offer superior nutrition and versatile uses from oil for table use to cattle feed and fuel. U.S. peanut exports to Bordeaux reach $115,220 in five years with wholesale oil prices around 65 to 82 cents per gallon. The Department of Agriculture notes peanuts pack more nutrition than beef and continues experiments on peanut products and oil potential.
A northbound Southern Railway freight train collided with a southbound passenger train near Rudd North Carolina eight miles north of Greensboro. The fireman was killed and the engineer injured, with nineteen passengers hurt. Relief trains arrived as officials investigated possible causes including a misaligned switch left open by a flagman. Early tallies listed six dead and fifteen injured.
In a Philadelphia Ledger report a lawyer's cross examination of a Swedish subpoenaed witness prompts calls for an interpreter. The witness describes simple factory work and earning one dollar and a half per day, leading the judge to bring in an interpreter to clarify the oath and questions.
Invites, announcements and wedding invitations printed or engraved in first class style. Keowee Courier offers all latest styles and stock. Write or call for catalog and orders in Walhalla.
A critical study argues Irish people are hardworking and morally upright, noting drinking is less prevalent than in England or Scotland. It cites Ireland's population drop from 8.1 million in 1831 to 4.4 million in 1901 and claims emigration reduced the burden of taxation while leaving many emigrants physically and mentally fit.
A long advertising notice promotes a special sale by Rubkin Anderson’s Department Store, offering ladies and men’s shoes from $1.25 to $4, plus a free 16x20 framed picture with $25 purchase. It markets men’s, women’s, and children’s footwear, suits, and hosiery, with guaranteed refunds or exchanges and bargains on children’s and boys’ clothing.
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