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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1909
Page
6
The Keowee Courier lists personal communications and obituary notices under a policy of free printing for notices under one hundred words with charges of one cent per word for longer items. The page notes cash with manuscript and the issue date Wednesday October 100.
Spartanburg mourns Dr James H Carlisle famed educator and Wofford College president whose life of service shaped South Carolina. Thousands attend his funeral on campus with delegates from church and state and a tribute to his quiet humility and lasting legacy.
Reports from Rome Naples and Messina describe continuing earthquake shocks near Mt Etna with Tel communication cut in Catania and one death. Mt Etna village Acireale is destroyed. Beluchistan public buildings destroyed. Vesuvius eruption intensifies alarming peasants fearing Messina disaster as seismic disturbances are predicted by a noted American scientist.
Gen Marius Jay reports Moors kill their wounded to avoid capture by Spaniards. Army losses exceed 4000 killed as tribesmen resist in the Mettila hills. Wounded slaughter wryly noted amid ongoing battles and heavy attrition.
An OCR fragment lists an ad for sale by all drug and references a paper name, plus religious and charitable notices. It includes quotes about Christ during dark days, mentions of Mrs Lee's Sunshine sewing, Budgets of local societies, and inquiries about society officers. It closes with an eczema remedy advertisement and the Down's Ointment claim.
Memphis Tenn Oct 22 The report of J A Taylor president of the National Ginners Association shows ginned to October 18 about 5 320 000 bales nearly a million bales below the same period last year The crop is 79 7 percent picked far behind last year except Georgia and the Carolinas where yield is better but not as expected The belt overall is disappointing due to small boll size Mississippi Louisiana and Arkansas have the shortest crop ever grown Texas not much better
In Florida near Key West three government workers Victor Matson 2 Herbert Sawyer 15 and Cornelius Patterson 17 were rescued by the Austrian steamship Clara from a small powerboat. They battled waves through Monday night as a coal hurricane swept the area and signaled for help with a red handkerchief. Sawyer was hurled through cabin windows but unhurt. his father aided in saving the family as the hurricane damaged their home.
Louis Boon of Norway Michigan praises Foley's Honey and Tar for curing his son’s severe cough and a neighbor’s boy with a cold deemed hopeless by doctors. He calls it safe and certain, endorsed by J W Bell.
A protest by housewives follows sharp broom price increases by more than 50 percent as broom corn yields shrink due to hot winds. Prices for broom corn rise five to ten cents per pound, with some makers predicting fifteen cents. Brooms now fetch higher prices and older stock costs climb. Wad 45 cents. Also an advertisement promotes Wooly’s Honey and Tar for coughs and colds in a yellow package.
Anderson and Wright sell the automatic wing traveler magazine for 4000 dollars to Barber-Colman Company of Indiana, makers of mill machinery. Wright, chief electrician at Anderson Cotton Mills, originated the idea with Hurt, who helped perfect it. Leitner financed and assisted in selling the patent.
In Athens Georgia on October 22, faculty alarm rises as Dr J C Bloomfield reports at least 30 percent of University of Georgia students examined harbor hookworms Wealthy families are among the affected, challenging the idea parasite targets only the poor A campaign to eradicate the parasite is planned and faculty request further examinations and action.
Columbia report by Clemson botanist Barre to Commissioner Watson finds the cotton seed disease costs Georgia and the state millions annually and is spreading. The remedy calls for selecting seed from fields with no prior cotton crop and requires a bill to inspect cotton seed along with other seedlings to guard against pellagra.
Governor Ansel offers a reward of $100 for the apprehension and arrest of J T Holleman former cashier of the Hank of Anderson charged with breach of trust to about $85 000. Anderson county grand jury returned a true bill at the last court term and papers have been turned over to the sheriff.
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