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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1900
Page
3
A garbled vintage ad touts a seasonal market seeking buyers for a favorable price. It claims steady stock and quick service, promising quality goods and privileged purchasing at noted prices, urging shoppers to visit before other venues.
A sprawling clipping records church events, obituaries, meetings, sales, entertainments, and local notices from Walhalla and nearby communities. It notes cantatas, funerals, auctions, and social happenings, along with names of residents, visitors, and officials.
J. H. Darby tags a shopping list of items including pellet soap and bath goods with high quality, low prices, urging readers not to miss the surprises. A wheel call to see before buying is included, signaling a promotional notice from Drugeist.
The community plans a semi centennial celebration for White Rock Academy at South Union marking fifty years since the school's founding. Local residents discuss a union gathering for former students and teachers while noting weather and upcoming church events and marriages in the area.
The Lutheran Sunday School mourns Henry Thouleuds death and consoles his family. The Keowee County paper will publish the resolutions, with copies to the family. The article also notes a Baptist association meeting near Bonnet with sermons and questions about Sunday schools and church relations, plus a testimonial for One Minute Cough Cure and a Charleston treasury note on blind tiger liquor.
An early 20th century style note claims kidney and bladder issues ruin health, mood, and vigor in men women and even children. It promotes Swamp Root patent remedy by Kilmer & Co offering sample bottles and testimonials to cure kidney disease and related symptoms.
Rev. Arthur Crane, recently from New Jersey, sermonized in Charleston asserting he will produce evidence to close gambling houses and vice establishments unless authorities act. He denounced local ministers and urged closure while promoting Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery amid health rhetoric. The article notes quarantine changes and Honolulu shipment restrictions related to merchandise from Asiatic ports.
Fireal Things offers a spring goods sale with Bedford cords percales piques and ducks all at low prices. A wide range of mercerized silk and variegated silks priced 26 to 60 cents per yard, plus whites, organdies, linens, and embroidered items on sale. Shop early for best values and new spring stock.
A mix of agricultural ads tout fertilizers rich in potash and free books from German Kali Works, alongside a page of local school and community items. Mentions J A Sandera, R C Grif, Nannie Griffin, Mrs Allen THangilton, Prof W A Dickson, and several residents attending events or traveling to Camden, Axconville, and Anilora.
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