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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1903
Page
3
An old timey ad invites families to bring in children for new clothes. It stresses a large, well selected stock of boys clothing with prices and varied styles including trousers with extra smart knees for praying boys, regular stock for average boys, and double-thigh pants for boys who won’t pray. The tone is playful and promotional.
Community updates include appointments and elections at the Paul Hayne Circle, a correction about Townville school enrollment, medical notices and drugstore services, a new rural mail route order, portrait of local officers in the Hopta sopha, tax return schedules, Foundation Club activities at White Rock, and pension office notices with local distribution details.
John Joost proprietor of the City Meat Market and Dowler in Brick seeks cattle for feeding purposes. Prices paid for cattle ready for boot and pork. Write or call for prices. Office Main Street Walhalla near Post Office.
Local items report Mr C W Banknight visiting Anderson on business and Robt Milor displaying a 40 pound radish. Notices include births, marriages, church events, school updates, and locals moving or changing jobs on the Blue Ridge line.
Westminster items report Mina Torrell among notable young ladies, and a planned marriage between Mary Low Bull and Mer Mulkey at Westminster Inn on Thursday at 4 PM. Also noted are bee-keeping efforts by J Wade Dickson, a fire loss at D H Breazeale’s smoke house, Postal Telegraph line construction, and community notices including church and school matters.
Wagoner Alliance will meet on the fourth Saturday of the prevent month to discuss important local news. Messages from Dintmire and W. W. Burlay discuss croup in children and recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, with advice to avoid untried treatments and use medicine as directed. A woman writer comments that a wife may support a husband if she thinks he worthy.
Senator Herndon letters and a lengthy report cover the opening days of the South Carolina General Assembly. There are notes on senate and house organization, committee assignments, a governor’s message, and upcoming sessions. Reports mention child labor bills, railroad and tax issues, and local political tensions amid resignations and a notable editor incident.
An old advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as a nourishing fattening tonic for those unable to eat well. It claims to increase bone, flesh, blood and nerve tissues, aiding invalids, convalescents, consumptives and weak children.
A letter from Devos and Can of New York recounts a tale of love, pain, and a claim about a pain balm. It mentions a Mrs Shuler and a son, plus a recommendation of Chamberlain's Pain Balm as a remedy. The piece notes Good Friday falling on April 10 this year.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TO A COMMISSION E tuned to the undersigned as corporate by Ma R Cooper Secretary of State on the Libh day of December 1902, notice is hereby given that books of subscription to the capital stock of TENNESSEE GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY will be opened at the office of B. F. Esq. in the People's Bank Building in Anderson on January 10, 1903, at 11 o'clock A M. The proposed corporation will have capital stock of 1,000, divided into two thousand five hundred shares of $100 each, and will own, construct and operate a railroad from Anderson to a point on the Chattooga River in Oconee County toward the Georgia state line and toward Charleston, South Carolina. B16.
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