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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1901
Page
1
Local retailer promotes a wide selection of menswear and accessories including shirts shirt waists collars cuffs neckwear underwear hose shoes and related items. Emphasizes fit style price and up to date fashions to attract customers.
Dr Montague delivers the valedictory at Greenville Female College urging graduates to cherish the institution, pursue broad Christian education, and balance mind body and soul while serving home and nation. He cautions against purely intellectualism and extols faith, patriotism, and ambition tempered by virtue. He invokes classical and literary allusions to inspire lifelong learning and leadership.
Senator John L McLaurin arrives in Bennettsville after a ten day absence in Washington Philadelphia and New York. He jokes about a proposed readout in the Democratic primary and says he secured the government exhibit for the Charleston exposition with an hoped for appropriation. He plans to speak in Spartanburg and other towns, with invitations from Leesville Oakway and a Kershaw county site.
The Bamburg Herald summarizes Tillman’s bid to block McLaurin by promoting an extra primary. It notes the MelLaurin movement is strong statewide and Tillman’s belief he can beat McLaurin, plus the goal to limit McLaurin views reaching voters.
A patent medicine claim promotes Mall's Great Discovery Texas Wonder as a remedy for kidney and bladder problems including gravel diabetes and rheumatism. The advertisement offers one bottle by mail for 1.00 and cites a testimonial from J W Nordmann of St Louis praising relief from long standing rheumatic pain after using the product.
Gen. W. W. N. Davis of Doylestown Pa presented a Confederate Chicora signal flag captured in 1864 to Dr. Kollock for Charleston at the Southern Industrial Convention in Philadelphia. Kollock urged preserving relics to bind North and South, recalling blue and grey memories while pledging unity and peace.
In Anniston Alabama on June 20 Pastor John E Barnard led 200 candidates to full immersion at the First Baptist Church in a revival that spanned thirty six days. The service drew crowds from the surrounding area and church records show 860 conversions and 825 members on the roll with 782 additions under Barnard over two years.
Laurens county principal Slughes was sentenced to thirty days in the chain gang after a jury found him guilty of cruelty for whipping Miss Bertha Winch, a fifteenth year old student. The case showed belt marks and injuries while the girl lay confined for a month.
A reformist movement launches the Allied Third party in Kansas City aimed at creating a national party by 1904. Leaders from Populists and Public Ownership groups back public utilities control, initiative laws, graduated income tax, legal tender money, statewide election reforms, and direct US Senate elections. Bryan’s stance remains supportive but noncommittal.
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