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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1908
Page
8
Walhalla Drug Co offers drugs medicines paints oils and fine toilet articles. They handle prescriptions carefully compounded by a pharmacist and guarantee customers get what they ask for with no substitution.
Walhalla items include local business ads and notices from F and ee to W. M. Brown for buggies, Miss Maud Kay visiting, and J. W. Holleis leaving for Pickens on business. Also features sales pitches, millinery openings, a birthday supper for J. J. Stone, and notices on races, school exams, and the railway line status with sorrowful obituaries and community updates.
A New York dispatch reports Benjamin F. Hill, stowed in a freight car from Baltimore, donated about 18 ounces of his blood for a patient at Presbyterian Hospital. He walked out after the operation despite doctors warnings, the patient died later, and surgeons called it one of the era's most remarkable incidents.
An old advertisement touts Dr. King’s New Life Pills as easing stomach liver and bowel kinks with no fuss. N H Brown of Pittsfield VI endorses the product and guarantees satisfaction at drug stores for 25 cents.
Rev J A Smith visiting Charles Drumm along the Catawba river near Lockhart Shoals reports the recent freshet has opened Catawba Indian graves. Debris includes wampum beads, some olives and whites, skeletons, cooking utensils, jade grain mills and tomahawks. The Catawba land is described as friendly to whites.
Wehmond Bag Co of Wehmond Virginia advertises readiness to pay freight for second hand bags and burlap of any kind or quantity, inviting suppliers to contact for purchase.
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