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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1903
Page
1
Globe Tailoring Co announces an exclusive Spring Opening on Thursday January 29 in Walhalla South Carolina. An expert tailor will be on hand to take measurements and present new spring and summer woolens from the Globe line.
An advertisement touts TING marble and granite work with handsome monuments, promising first class workmanship and best materials, inviting readers to place headstones and offering in home design consultations. The page then reports the deaths of Col. Thomas W. Holloway and Maj. A H White, noting Holloway’s Auburn ties to the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society and White’s prominence in Rock Hill and York County.
President Roosevelt signed the militia bill this afternoon in the presence of Secretary Root and other officials. Root praised the enactment, Gen. Dick of the National Guard spoke, and Roosevelt stressed the bill’s importance while hoping such an emergency never arises. The article notes South Carolina’s General Assembly has no Black members in either chamber, a first in the state’s political history.
An aging discourse argues prejudice blocks use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, claimed to restore health in chronic coughs and lung ailments. Patient testimonies praise life-saving effects, while critics note motive to substitute for higher-profit medicines.
Capt D C Heyward was inaugurated as Governor in Columbia at noon in the House chamber. The ceremony featured Chief Justice Pope and Justices in robes, with ex-Governor Sheppard presiding, and a formal oath and private swearing in of new state officers including Jesse T Gantt as Secretary of State. Heyward vows to regulate trusts, advance capital with protections, address child labor gradually, and enforce all laws while awaiting legislature action.
Retiring South Carolina State Superintendent of Education John J. McMahan offers a tribute praising Gonzales as a fearless public servant. He recalls Gonzales as a private citizen who influenced industrial Columbia, educational reforms, and civic virtue, urging a lasting monument and inscription to honor his life and courage.
Health warning on kidney function explains how kidneys purify blood and prevent disease. It promotes Dr Kilmer and Swamp Root as a remedy with a free sample offer by mail and a pamphlet to diagnose kidney or bladder trouble. Ends with address in Binghamton New York.
A long list of recorded property transfers in Oconee County tied to various townships and residents. Names include Chattooga Township Harden Wilbanks Burgess Whitewater Seneca Westminster Westminster Seneca and Keowee with parcels ranging from single lots to hundreds of acres and prices from tens to thousands of dollars. The record shows master trustees, executors, and individuals conveying land in numerous transactions across multiple townships including Chattooga Whitewater Seneca Walhalla Tugalo Keowee Westminster Center and Center.
Hertford January 21 at 2 oclock this afternoon the jury in the Wilcox case found him guilty of second degree murder and sentenced him to thirty years in the state penitentiary. He was charged with the murder of Miss Nellie Cropsey his sweetheart whose body was found in the river after last being seen with him.
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