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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1905
Page
6
A large Tirzah crowd hears Senator Tillman defend dispensary policy and call for gubernatorial action. Senator Brice denounces the system as undemocratic and urges opposition, with speakers debating liquor control and the Legislature’s role amid strong audience support for Tillman.
A historical mix of advertising for Hall's Catarrh Cure and notices from Greensboro Federal Court. The ad touts Hall's remedy with testimonials. separate court notes report twenty eight indictments for fraud by revenue officers and distillers, naming collectors including Hardin and Foley & Co. of Chicago cited for Honey and Tar promotion and imitations.
Devastation near the Rand Powder Works after yesterday’s explosion leaves many missing. Workmen recover scattered remains as authorities fear identifications may be impossible, raising the death toll to nineteen including a child hit by a wagon. Nearby towns report sensational incidents at Creston school and an arrest of a dispensary defaulting clerk.
Confederate roll information offered by W W Mons agent Cascade Ga detailing regiments generals and officers with sketches. crime note reports two groves robbing farmer Thomas Lamb of fourteen hundred dollars on Campbellton road near Cascade, pistol threatened, suspects fled.
Land owners and farmers of Montgomery county sign an agreement to hold a meeting in Montgomery within four days. They will obligate each owner to take cotton offered for sale by their tenants at ten cents and credit the amount to hold the cotton so it is not sold for less than ten cents in this market.
Mexico City reports last year’s cotton output at 75 000 bales. Present-year estimates range as low as 0 00 000 and perhaps 100 000 bales. Native mills rely on about one third of required quantities. acreage growth is slowing, and cotton tree experiments show limited potential for long-term market impact.
Laurens County Cotton Growers Association adopted resolutions endorsing the Southern Cotton Association action to set eleven cents as the minimum price for the current cotton crop and to market only the portion necessary. Col J H Wharton urged attention to cotton seed bagging and ties. In Waxahachie Texas a mob burned Steve Davis after he confessed to assaulting Mrs Norris. 3,500 people witnessed the lynching and several similar burnings had occurred recently in Texas.
A quirky aphorism on milk as nature s emulsion butter shaped for digestion. It notes cod liver oil nourishment relies on emulsification for digestion and uses playful phraseology to explain dairy and fat digestion concepts.
Scott's Emulsion combines oil with hypo phosphites to aid digestion and enhance health. Marketed as the most strengthening nourishing food medicine by Scott and Bowne of New York, the patent medicine lists a price of one dollar and directs to druggists.
Notice calls surviving Confederate soldiers to meet in each township on September 30 1005 to elect a representative of the Veteran in sid township and the representatives will then meet at the Court House in Walhalla to elect four members for the county pension board. Jim Padgett is arrested by Chief Derrick for assault on a young white girl and faces transfer to Columbia amid reported lynching talk and notes of prior similar acts.
The government cotton report shows this year’s ginned cotton at 469,500 bales compared with 874,821 last year, with regional totals and prices noted. In Spartanburg a bail of 2000 was set for W L Hadden, who killed T M Glenn near Wood’s Pit, after a late detection of a prowler led to the fatal confrontation.
Senator Tillman criticizes dispensary politics calling it a trick while urging prohibition enforcement and lamenting past corruption. The article notes Sakhalin island’s size, location, and resources, emphasizing its strategic value to Japan and Russia and its historical transfer.
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