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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1905
Page
2
The notice outlines subscription at $1.00 per year and advertising rates as reasonable. Personal character communications charged as advertisements. obituaries and tributes under 100 words printed free, over that length charged at one cent per word, with cash accompanying manuscript.
In Columbia State style reminiscence, a North Carolina worker recounts a Palmetto State cricket that learned Morse and diverted a near disaster. The cricket perched in a hearthstone telegraph room listened to the wire, learned the alphabet, and repeated dispatches so crews halted No. 73 and prevented a collision with a northbound special, saving many lives. The tale alternates between the operator's nostalgia and social commentary on railway safety and corporate responsibility.
A fragment describes a man dying when a lightning-like arc from a switchboard struck a station and caused a green fireball to rip through wiring, killing him. The piece also includes garbled medical and hearing loss claims and an advertisement promising deafness cures from a patent remedy, with dubious medical jargon and a fake offer.
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