This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1902
Page
4
The Reptvee Courier announces publication every Wednesday morning with rates for advertisements at one dollar per small ad and personal communications charged by the word. Obituary notices and tributes under one hundred words are printed free. longer notices cost one cent per word, with cash required on manuscript submission.
The article notes cornstalks increasingly add value to crops, worth attention on Georgia farms. Dr Trunnicutt praises shredded stalk fodder as a productive feed, saying hay and fodder from stalks are valuable, cost little to test, and improve cattle nutrition.
A regional appeal from Doda le ty Arkansas Appeals urges readers to bring food, goods, or trade to support the struggling store. It laments empty larder, dwindling cash, and rising clothing needs while promising praise for timely contributions and advertising to keep the enterprise alive until income improves.
An elderly farmer praises Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for restoring appetite digestion and sleep, citing weight gain and renewed vigor after using the medicine and its associated products. A booklet The Common Sense Medical Adviser is offered free with stamps to cover mailing.
A mixed excerpt recounts a king and a gray-haired professor in a court tale about a mental arithmetic trick. The professor’s birthday puzzle yields twelve hundred sixty, revealing December birth and age. A goose farming note follows, estimating feather yield and gosling numbers for profitable poultry.
A major blaze in Willington Anderson on November 23 at 2 am wiped out the town's business section along the Charter ton and Western Carolina Railway. The origin is undetermined but suspected arson. Losses include RF Morris goods worth 55050 with 3800 insurance, W O Covin room and goods 1100 700, W K Cowan room and goods 1000 500, Wm Lawton goods 1500 500, I G Roose room 360 100, S S McBride room 1000 insured none.
Berlin reports Herr Krupp, famed German armaments magnate, died suddenly this afternoon at his villa after several days of illness. His fortune was estimated around 125 million marks with yearly income near 10 million dollars. His gun works employed about 43 000 workers.
Mrs HL R Jobe of Birmingham, now Eldredge, Alabama, writes praising Dr Miles Nervine and Heart Cure after a severe grippe left her heart nerves weak. She says three Nervine bottles and one Heart Cure restored her ability to lie on her left side, cured heart oppression, and ended nervousness. All druggists sell and guarantee first bottle. Send for free book from Dr Miles Medical Co.
At the State Hospital considerable improvements are underway under Superintendent Habowok. Two main stories and a four story annex are being added to the north wing for white women, brick construction about 80 by 30 feet, housing around 20 women. The project aims to relieve crowding of white women’s quarters as the facility, with about 1,160 patients, expands yard fencing and moves the rear gate near the old brewery.
Southern Railway launches Winter Homes in a Simmer Land season 1903 3 brochure, with photos of regional winter scenes from the mountains to Florida and Nassau. It promotes health winter trips and lists hotels and boarding houses with daily weekly and monthly rates, urging readers to request the booklet or winter tourist tickets at reduced rates via passenger agents in Atlanta Charleston and Jacksonville.
A heavy rainfall drenched this section of Texas on November 21 washing out railroad tracks and flooding streets. Merchants suffered major stock losses and oil companies face substantial damage, with rice fields and farmers in Jefferson Liberty and Sardine counties reporting extensive losses from eighteen inches of water across the belt. Hastings Fla reports eight hundred acres of potatoes yielding 35,000 barrels sold at 3.25 to 3.50 per barrel for a gross town income around 120,000.
In Wexington Kentucky on November 24 the Broadway Christian church voted 361 to 202 to install an organ, ending Rev James W McGarvey’s tenure at Bible College of Kentucky University. He opposed the organ on scriptural grounds. Factions formed as Rev J W Zachary a prohibition candidate for Congress and Prof H H White with others vow to leave when the organ is used.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.