Redistricting debate in South Carolina legislature outlined
The Greenville News notes that South Carolina will likely redraw its congressional districts before the next election. It urges immediate action, warns against delay, and calls for persistent, issue based discussion to overcome political maneuvering while highlighting the old Patton bill as a possible framework.
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Nevada
Chicago
John G. Carlisle
St. Louis Republic
What the Negro Has Cost Us
A clipping from The Keowee Courier dated September 8, 1864 critiques Northern war aims for freeing enslaved people. It cites The New York Herald arguing emancipation cost the nation heavily in lives and debt, claiming one white death per freed slave and total losses reaching five trillion in today’s dollars, reflecting proslavery propaganda of the era.
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Keowee
New York Herald
Friends of Humanity
Kilkenny
Sunday School Workers Convention Planned in Newberry
The Executive Committee of the South Carolina Interdenominational Sunday School Association calls a February 26 27 convention in Newberry South Carolina at Lutheran Redeemer church. International workers Professors Hamill Excell Marion Lawrence and others will attend to expand and improve Sabbath school work encouraging broader participation across the state.
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Marion Lawrence
Toledo
Ohio
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International Executive Committee
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Commonwealth
Newberry
Newberry Observer
Proceedings of the General Assembly in Columbia
The General Assembly was convened in Columbia with Stevenson at center and a Senate already organized. Elections set officials, debates on dispensary, school funding, pensions, and the Charleston Exposition. The House adjourned without full organization as members were sworn in and anticipated Governor and Lieutenant Governor inaugurations next week.
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Withers
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Charleston
Supreme Court
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Townsend
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Sheppard
Edgefield
Oconeo
Houge
Charleston Wins Navy Redevelopment At Port Royal Dispatch
A Washington dispatch reports the Rogota Naval Board favored moving the dry dock and naval station from Port Royal to Charleston. The final board decision directs Charleston to receive the Pico enterprise with estimated expenditure near 2,000,000.
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Washington
Rogota Naval Board
Child Labor in South Carolina Mills Protest Letter
A regional manufacturing group in Oconee County submits a formal appeal to Senator Hern don and Representatives Brown and Thompson. They warn against restrictive wage and age laws for mill work, arguing such measures would harm South Carolina’s industrial growth and push labor to neighboring states, and urge a balanced approach including compulsory schooling up to age twelve. They emphasize family-based work realities and cite Georgia and North Carolina as lacking similar laws.
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Valhalla
W. I. Cheswell
Westminster
L. W. Jordan
Seneca
Dewitta
Bo Auto
DeWitt
W. Boll
Money in the World and a Maine sheep incident
The United States mint director estimates world money at 11.6 billion with gold silver and paper in circulation, noting large growth since 1878. Separately a Maine case ends with a farmer mortgaging his farm after a dog killed a neighbor’s sheep and the owner faced legal costs.
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United States Mint
Roberta
Tis
Tie
Atlanta Journal
Maine
Hall's Great Discovery for Kidney and Bladder Trouble
A promotional claim from 1900 for Hall's Great Discovery asserts a single bottle cures kidney and bladder issues, removes gravel, treats diabetes symptoms, rheumatism, and nocturnal emissions. It offers mail order sales, testimonials, and lists Dr J W Hall as sole manufacturer in St Louis Missouri.
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St. Lovia
Mra
M. Kodoll
Indianapolis Mob Turmoil Over Black Family in Newburgh
A mob in Newburgh Warrick county Indiana tried to force a black man to leave after reports his wife, alleged white, stirred outrage. The man refused, shots were fired about sixty times, no one wounded, crowd dispersed, sheriff urged departure but man stayed in his house.
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Warrick County
Indiana
Lstter
Five Die in Morgantown Freight Collision on Trestle
A head end collision on the Baltimore and Ohio in Morgantown, W V, killed five trainmen William Bowman John Devonny Mike Dinion and Frank King and a tramp. Two more were badly injured. A orders mix up caused the high speed crash tearing up the track and collapsing the trestle.
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Baltimore and Ohio
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John Devonny
Mike Dinion
Frank King
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