Plant corn and sow oats to free Southern farms from debt
In Walhalla South Carolina an editorial urges Southern farmers to form a committee to seek self emancipation from credit systems. It praises cash farming, crop rotation, and higher self sufficiency, arguing for home grown corn and oats to reduce dependence on distant suppliers and banks, and to raise land value.
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Western Slaughter Houses
Northwestern Flour Mille
Union
Armer
Himeself
Atlanta Constitution
The Legislative Chaplains in the State Legislature
Gen R R Hemphill notes Rev R N Pratt is House chaplain succeeding Mr Hutson. Pratt spoke of being from Due West and Erskine. Rev H Zimmerman remains Senate chaplain, respected, often opening with the Lord’s Prayer. Chaplains are paid $50 for the session. earlier there was no pay and preachers divided duties.
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R. R. Hemphill
R. N. Pratt
Hutson
Pratt
Charleston
Senate
Hoe
Sity
Artichokes for Hogs and Odd Travel Rates
Farmers search for substitutes as corn rises to a dollar a bushel. Henry D Boozer of Kadesh grows Generusalem artichokes. hogs fed on them fatten well with a half acre yielding about a peck per stalk. Also notes travel rates and a promotion from The Courier and Constitution and Home and Farm offering a one year subscription for two dollars.
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Henry D. Boozer
Kadesh
Newberry Observer
The
Courier
Atlanta Constitution
Home and Farm
Two-Cent Pork: Farmer Claims Profit at 1 Cent a Pound
C H Smith of Yorkville reports a successful demonstration that pork can be raised at about one cent per pound. He slaughtered seven hogs totaling 1,640 pounds with expenses of 24 dollars, selling at eight cents per pound for a net profit of 107.20 dollars.
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C. H. Smith
Yorkville
Yorkville Enquirer
Texas rates set for Confederate reunion travel
Dallas officials report fixed travel rates for the Confederate reunion on April 21 22 28 and 24 using the regular convention fare of one and one third for round trips with stopover rights. Dallas terminal lines join a one cent round trip from Interstate points awaiting approval by Charles M Pratt of the Southwestern passenger bureau. Ticket sales planned outside Texas April 19 20 21 and within Texas April 21 22 28.
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Dallas
Texas
Charles M. Pratt
Southwestern Passenger Bureau
St. Louis
Jewels of American Women Worth Tens of Millions
A listing of 84 New York social ladies and their jewel holdings amounts to 22.25 million dollars. The piece notes high value gems, including pieces in the Astor and Vanderbilt families, and cites import and ownership figures for diamonds and precious stones in the United States, with New York owning a large share.
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Mia
John Tacob
Autor
New York
William Astor
John Jacob Astor
Cornelius Vanderbilt
K. Vanderbilt, Jr
C. J. P. Belmont
John W. Mackay
Bradley Martin
Perry Belmont
Herman Oolriobi
Orme Wilson
Ogden Goole
Clarence H. Mackay
Levi P. Morton
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
James A. Burden
Charles T. Yorkes
Ise
H. Muay Twombly
Stuyvesant Fish
Ernesto Fabbric
Davi
Hannon Morris
Edwin Gould
Oliver Harriman, Jr
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
United States
Leopold Stern
George F. Kuntz
Tiffany Company
Ainslee
Post Office Appropriation Increase Moves Forward
Washington dispatch reports the post office appropriation bill nearing passage by the House committee. It totals $187,916,598, up $14,188,910 from the current, with $41,250,000 for railway mail transport. Rural delivery gains $7,529,000 and contracts replace salaries for rural carriers. A separate note discusses Whig and Democratic legacies and a defeated Senate bill raising Senator salaries.
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Washington Dispatch
House Committee On Post Offices
New York
Washington
New Orleans
Kansas City
Newton
Kansas
Death Penalty Compared Belgium to Life Imprisonment
The article contrasts Belgian practice with life imprisonment for capital crimes, describing a solitary dungeon with no human contact, minimal nourishment, and prolonged suffering. It then shifts to Kentucky figures John B. Thompson and Philip B. Thompson Sr., noting their prominence and a humorous family anecdote about stolen papers and a courtroom exchange.
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Belgium
John B
Philip B. Thompson
Harrodsburg
United States
John
Phil
Bluford Wickersham
Bradley
Kentucky
Murder Victim Eli Sauls Dies From Wound In Kingstree
In Kingstree Eli Sauls died at 8 this morning from a gunshot wound inflicted by M D Nesmith at Cade's on Friday. Coroner Burrows empaneled an inquest jury which found Sauls died from the gunshot. Nesmith has not yet appeared. Also notes a June Newberry College sermon by Bishop Warren A Candler, a Cascarets ad, SC millionaires, Mobile Alabama bicentennial flags, and Walhalla Circuit appointments listing several churches and times.
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Eli Sauls
M. D. Neamith
Cade's
HH. M. Burrowa
M.D. Ne Smith
Sauls
Nesmith
Warren A. Candler
Atlanta
Southern Methodist Church
Newberry College
London mill to make sixteen foot wide paper rolls
A London plant plans a new machine to produce a sixteen foot wide roll at forty tons daily with a speed of 500 feet per minute. In five minutes the roll would cover an acre. The note also mentions a bright outlook for biennial sessions and pension reform.
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London
Southern Railway Schedule Fragments Reach Southern Cities
Fragmentary OCR shows a list of Southern Railway departures and stops including Sumter Camden Lancaster Rock Hill Yorkville Blacksburg Shelby Rutherfordton Hendersonville Charlotte and Winnsboro with times like 7 10 pm 8 80 pm 7 16 pm and notes ABTWARD No 63 and Beares Ollpm. The readable items indicate interchange points and routes through North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia with several station names and irregular times.
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Sumter
Artive Camden
Lancaster
Rock Hill
Yorkville
Blacksburg
Shelby
Rutherfordton
Beaeres
Asheville
Hendersonville
Charlotte
Winnsboro
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