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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1902
Page
2
Walhalia column carries an article by Senator KE L Herndon explaining support for the bill to let public printing go to the lowest bidder. The piece notes his speech on the Senate floor contained an erroneous statement and promises further discussion.
A Charleston bill to create agricultural investigation and experiment near Charleston passes the House. Redistricting moves Clarendon to the First District. Several measures including anti trust, tax for highways, and state colleges funding are debated. The appropriation bill for nearly one million passes. Winthrop College loses ten thousand. Death of Rep. U. H. Theus announced.
Legislative action dominates the week with drainage and bond disputes, biennial sessions defeat, and a high tone attack on road law. The assembly weighs an old soldiers bill, salaries, and a state house completion plan as adjournment nears amid protests from bondholders and local counties.
Wilmington shops of the Pullman Palace Car Company finished the Idler a palace observation and stateroom sleeper for Prince Henry of Prussia and suite on their tour of the country. The car features bronze and mahogany interiors electric lighting blue plush upholstery and brown curtains with electric fans for cooling. A dubious paragraph about Blood Balm and health products follows unrelated to the car story.
L Herndon of Seneca responds to editorial debate over public printing contracts in Oconee County. He cites bid practices, questions if notices cover all county publications, and defends his record in the Senate while outlining local snowfall and social notices from Seneca including visitors, events, and church updates.
A collection of medical anecdotes and notices including a testimonial for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure from J W Bell of Charlotte praising its effects on digestion. A fatal apartment fire injures Min Mako McKavo, with her clothes ablaze, and a testimonial endorsing Chamberlains Cough Remedy from Mrs J A Moore of North Star Michigan. Major William Smyth, Atlanta postmaster, dies after a brief illness from grip.
Report from Little Rock dated February 16 describes a 15 ton boulder smashing into a Choctaw railroad work train caboose 20 miles west of Little Rock. Six men died instantly, others trapped under sand, with fifteen injured brought to Little Rock infirmary and several missing. Conductor J R Gample, Engineer Nagor, and Fireman W H Evans led the crew of 64.
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