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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1911
Page
7
A long OCR sample shows the International Press Bible Question Club discussing Daniel in the Lions Den. It lists questions about King Darius, Daniel’s history, character traits, leadership, jealousy of officials, and prayer. It includes a column of practical legal commentary by Judge Guy.
The text discusses the appeal process and the requirement for certification by a trial judge or an appellate judge to show merited grounds. It notes that a case may be appealed even without merit, and reports delays in Supreme Court review, citing Beattie and Beauchamp and referencing Virginia methods and jurisdictional issues.
The article reports vast flood damage across New York and the Yongetse Khan Valley, claiming up to six million lives in a worst case tally. It notes Chinese government and missionary efforts failing to prevent ongoing inundation along major rivers, with hundreds of thousands displaced and widespread agricultural loss from upper valley floods.
After four years of tests by the Interstate Commerce Commission 186 devices were considered with 700 tests on a 12 mile Erie line trial. Frederick Lacroix of Texas proposed a “third rail” plus electrical system that activates brakes when two engines approach on the home track within half a mile. The device, tested Feb to now, could be ordered nationwide if approved.
A Gevaman from New York reviews Napoleon the Dalley imale and Abe the old driver in a fractured dialogue. Abe phones his employers, asking for “number two hundred and seven” while confusion and dialect reveal a comical yet pointed scene about power and manipulation in a wholesale food house. The court and staff interactions hint at racial and social tensions in a jumbled narrative.
Fragmentary read of a Scottsboro era style notice referencing Fletcher's Castoria and a political convention. Mentions Columbia Record, a state Democratic convention, and an unfavorable view of a governor candidate. Names and details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
A memorial notice records the death of Mrs. A. P. Mavett, longtime member of the New Weaturnater Faplist Church and Woman's Missionary Society. The resolutions praise her faith, devotion to home and family, and encouragement of others to Christ, and announce publishing of a memorial page in local papers.
Floods struck Pittston and nearby areas as a cloudburst sent waters racing through the suburbs. Two hundred workers were rescued by boat after a spa mingle of structures gave way. one person was reported dead in Allegheny County.
Gen William Tt Boggs, one of the last returning Confederate generals, died in Winston-Salem on September 15. A West Point graduate of 1863, he joined the Confederate service in 1861, rose to brigadier general, and served as chief of staff for the Trans Mississippi department of the Southern army from 1863 until the war’s end. He married Mary Sophia Symington in 1856.
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