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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1906
Page
3
The Farmers Union Bureau announces new printing arrangements and presses, praising the farm movement and urging farmers to plant winter oats with deep plowing and open trench seed beds. It contrasts two farms, praising stock raising and crop diversity while condemning cotton dependence and degrading language about enslaved people.
An antiquated medical advertisement touts Golden Medical Discovery as a potent alterative and purifier benefiting nasal passages throat bronchi stomach bowels and bladder. It markets Favorite Prescription as a tonic for female irregularities and nervous exhaustion, claiming it builds vitality and supports a healthy system. The piece cites unnamed medical authorities praising ingredients and asserts non alcohol content and non habit forming properties. It promotes Jarce's Pills as a candy-like stimulant for digestion and vigor.
A.J. Neabaum of Batesville Indiana proclaims Foley's Honey and Tar cured his hay fever and summer cold after other medicines failed. His wife also used it with success. In West Virginia ten year old Jerry Clay’s daughter in Leander was adjudged insane due to smoking and will be sent to a Baltimore sanitarium.
A brief note on remedies for kidney ailments mentioning Dr J W Hell and medical options. The fragment suggests Foley’s Kidney Gore as a remedy claim, with medical discussion about treatment limits and effectiveness.
Mount Pleasant September 3 report notes fragile health in the community while detailing a Harbin family reunion at H M Harbin’s home with a picnic dinner and games for forty two grandchildren. The piece records baptisms, visits, illnesses, and regular Sunday school and prayer meetings amid local social activity centered on the Harbin family.
An assortment of old ads claim rewards for catarrh cures and promote Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills. The text touts external testimonials, internal remedies, and a variety of health products alongside scattered sensational notes about police forces and Ku Klux Klan activity in Atlanta.
A middle aged African American man named Jeter Lawrence was arrested after allegedly abusing two young girls, daughters of a farmer near Pickens Court House. Authorities moved quickly to keep the case quiet, but word spread. The girls, seven and nine, reportedly endured multiple assaults until they told playmates and their mother, leading to Lawrence being jailed in Greenville before dawn Sunday. Local sheriff delayed public notice to prevent a lynching.
The Counties for Governor report lists Ansel Anderson Abbeville Bamberg Barnwell Beaufort Cherokee Chester Colleton Charleston Darlington Dorchester Edgefield Fairfield Greenwood Greenville Hampton Oconee Pickens Richland Spartanburg Union York and notes Laurens Marlboro Darlington etc. It adds that Marlboro county gave Joel E Branson a plurality and includes ad copy about patent pills and critiques of wealth and trust.
Lawson Addison, a colored man, shot and killed Tildy McMaster and her sister Mamie Hassell about six miles from Chester while they had been to church. Addison fled as the women approached and had been a former sweetheart of one of them. The incident occurred Monday night around 9 o clock. witnesses saw the flash of the shots.
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