23 Feb 1893
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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1893
Page
1
Desoto Flour claims unbeatable quality with highest patent flour. Schumacher markets Marvel Flour as superior straight patent. Oven Lifter and Damon Flour offered as good or cheaper options. Damon’s Choice Family flour presented as white and affordable. Schumacher highlights demand and value across brands.
Timber Rambler recounts a mule back trek through South and North Carolina Georgia and Tennessee by way of Tallulah Falls Murphy Dahlonega and Dahlonega mining areas. The writer notes timber and mineral prospects, hospitality, schooling, and local economies amid heavy rains and rugged terrain.
John Lanford Sr of Lanford Station in Lanrens county has grown feeble yet remains a model of rural industry. Father of fourteen, grandfather to seventy five and great grandfather to thirty seven. At ninety five he kept crops, selling hogs and managing 900 bushels of corn and a fair cotton and grain yield last year. Young farmers should imitate his businesslike farming as a lifelong calling.
Mr I W Tillman recently moved from Lancaster to Texas and writes a letter to the Lancaster review advising South Carolina friends to prioritize grain crops while Texas prepares a large cotton crop for next season. He warns of low cotton prices due to Texas fertilizer use and urges surplus cotton only after securing grain yields.
Fragmented prose discusses women as complex, from biblical imagery to moral exhortation. It weaves linguistic quirks, historical anecdotes, and a critique of virtue, ending with a religious comparison urging spiritual transformation and self control.
A brief old time advertisement notes that good looks depend on healthy vital organs and promotes Electric Bitters as a great alterative and tonic. It claims benefits for liver stomach and skin, promising clear complexion and relief from pimples boils and blotches. The Norman Carroll Co. drug store is listed as seller with price details. It also contains a political aside praising strict prohibition efforts against drink evil.
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