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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1903
Page
1
It Pays to Buy for Cash and It Pays to Sell for Cash, warns a Walhalla business message from W. & J. E. Bauk Knight. The letter notes strong annual sales, cash buying to cut costs, and a January sale push with low prices on clothing to lure quick purchases.
Richmond Dispatch piece recalls William D. Steele and Capt. Wm Steele in Old Pickens S C with family ties to A H Ellison and Margaret Steele. It notes the deaths of Steele and Craig, their public roles, charity, and a closing remembrance of Old Pickens history and prospects for revival.
Community items include clergy election at Hama from Hoturn district, Lula Dickson teaching at Ocoma school, and social gatherings at the residence of Mr and Mrs Kennedy. Mentions visitors from Greenville and Calhoun, additions to homesteads, and a humorous anecdote about Billy Saunders the painter in New York.
A Greenville Daily Herald piece about a proud mother in Went Kind telling a lesson through her daughter who mispronounces many words. The girl, taught to fetch items, loses patience at the vinegar store but finally completes a small errand, showcasing persistence and humor.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for disfiguring skin diseases and blood impurities. It claims to purify the blood, improve gland function, and permanently heal scrofulous sores and other eruptions. The text urges readers to reject substitutes and offers a medical advice book and price options.
Capt. Griffith, superintendent of the penitentiary, filed a favorable financial report. On hand December 31, 1901: 811,787.02. receipts since then 72,282.19. total available 84,069.21. After expenses and improvements, balance 17,172.04. future balance 29,402.04. Year had 681 prisoners, now 701. three pardons and 45 deaths.
The ad claims the Miles Heart Cure can aid aged patients where standard treatments fail, presenting the tonic as a heart regulator and blooder circulatory aid. It cites many cases and grateful letters, asserting notable improvements and a long history since the Civil War era.
A Norfolk Virginia traveler recounts a winter journey to London, describing the city’s vast size, sights like St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, the British Museum, and Parliament. He notes damp air, antique facades, and the lack of electric trams, contrasting London’s grandeur with home. The piece ends with a homeward wish and a proud claim that America remains great.
George W Williams founder and president of the Carolina Savings Bank died of heart failure at his Meeting Street residence in Charleston. He was 88, recently in ill health, and survived by his wife and four children, including Patrick Calhoun of Cleveland and Mrs Carey of Charleston. The late banker's fortune is estimated between two and three million dollars.
An old advert explains kidney and bladder trouble harm both women and men, causing diminished vigor and bed wetting in children. It promotes Swamp Root by Dr Kilmer, claiming quick relief and offering samples by mail from Binghamton New York with addresses and prices.
The Nashville American contrasts political figure Roscoe Conkling’s somber eulogy for Oliver Morton with Henry Ward Beecher’s hopeful view of death as a doorway to a divine beyond. The piece ponders whether intellect shapes beliefs about fate, the afterlife, and what awaits beyond the grave.
A humorous, dated excerpt offers folk wisdom for taming balky horses without harsh methods. It prescribes gentle tapping on the horse’s hoof and forge, calming guidance, and patience to coax movement, while noting repeated successes in trials and a broader social digression on honesty and credibility.
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