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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1902
Page
4
The article discusses the farm as both dreaded toil and ideal retreat. It argues that true prosperity comes from skilled, thoughtful farming, not mere labor. It urges better planning, soil care, and self-reliance to lift Southern agriculture above poverty and match northern farming. The piece promotes education, thrift, and a deliberate shift from hand to mind in farming.
The Knoxville Iron Company will close its Harriman rolling mill this Saturday and ship the remaining equipment to Knoxville. The move aims to consolidate operations in Knoxville, with plans for a new 8600,000 steel plant and related expansion, anticipated to boost local industry and employ about 600 additional workers.
Report from Stockholm says a famine grips the extreme north with about seventy thousand people on the verge of starvation. Heavy rains flood districts, destroying pasture and livestock. Cows sell for five dollars and sheep for sixty cents as farmers struggle with ruined wreck grain and seed stocks.
Fragmentary U S newspaper items recount a delirious blend of topics from a nonsensical blues illness linked to a diseased liver to a chaotic bullfight exhibition in Kouaga City. The text weaves in social gossip, courtship, odd feats, and agricultural notices with faded references to local officials, audiences of thousands, and absurdities that defy coherent narrative.
The document lists several Walhalla ordinances forbidding riding horses or mules on streets, loitering on routes, injuring property, leaving debris, unlawful disposal of lumber or trash, and riding bicycles on sidewalks. It also prohibits gunfire within town limits except under property protection, gambling or cockfighting, and requires muzzle rules for dogs, depot assembly, and general health standards. Mayor and aldermen enforce with fines or imprisonment.
Walhalla aldermen enact broad police provisions governing drunk and disorderly behavior, public indecency, gambling, vagrancy, and loitering within town limits. The measures set fines, punishments, and mayoral discretion, plus rules on building codes, taxation, licensing, and street maintenance.
A Wilmington sale robbery reports a $4,000 theft tied to Watnon and Gave ford at Donesbury NC. The break in was found at 1:30 am by Conductor McCallorth who noticed a broken front and tracked suspects toward Sanford, with bloodhounds used to pursue leads. The incident marked the town with renewed security concerns after a prior break about a decade ago.
In Snoodville Hancock county on November 27 a tragedy unfolded as a man fatally shot his wife and daughter and then killed himself with a shotgun. Bloodshed sparked a feud of ten to twelve years, with Green blamed as the first killer in that Jones Green feud. The wife and daughter survived but the widow is expected to lose a hand. authorities cite human frailty and call for forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
Charlotte November 30 After deliberating twenty four hours the United States District Court jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of Was A Breeze former president of Sirat National Bank Asheville charged with embezzling 114000 from the bank years ago A mistrial was entered after eight hours the jury stood eight for conviction and four for acquittal in the first trial the defendant was convicted on appeal a new trial granted At the second trial the jury stood eleven for conviction and one for acquittal
Miss Halen M. Gould of Tarrytown plans to supply Thanksgiving relief to workers by funding a $15,000 Woody Great institution project and distributing fuel and food. She will keep children at Roxbury summer home due to coal prices, while fifty employees receive helpers such as kerosene, cooking stove fuel, potatoes, corn meal, flour, and other essentials.
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