Ladies Fine Shoes Offer Specialty Footwear
A local shoe shop promotes two named models JUSTA MARLOW SITOMS and AMERICAN GIRT with prices and recommendations. The ad urges customers to try a pair if their current shoes do not meet expectations.
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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1901
Page
1
A local shoe shop promotes two named models JUSTA MARLOW SITOMS and AMERICAN GIRT with prices and recommendations. The ad urges customers to try a pair if their current shoes do not meet expectations.
An 1890s-style promotional column recounts the Thrice-a-Week World offer and price, mixing campaign notes with health tips and miscellaneous items. It runs through subscription pricing, a set of living-or-health rules, and brief political reflections. The text also references John Sawyer and aging health lore, with stray mentions of Tut’s Liver Pills and a cough remedy.
A long narrative recounts the Charlie Ross kidnapping, once the most famous child abduction case, detailing the robbery, ransom offers, and pursuit by Pinkerton detectives. It covers Mosher and Douglas, their hiding, eventual capture, and the boy’s presumed death, framed as a historic Philadelphia area chronicle.
A clipped exchange exposes a sensational cure scam promising quick fixes for tobacco addiction and vices. It urges debtors to pay by any means, lists bizarre barter items, and ends with a violent admonition to “walk up, but don't kill Goro at once.”
An early 20th century patent medicine ad touts a kidney and bladder remedy claimed to cure bladder troubles and diabetes in men and women and regulate children’s bladder health. It promises a trial bottle by mail and lists fictitious doctors and multiple locations, urging readers to buy and test the product.
A woman in Manchac parish was assaulted by a man described as a negro who broke into her home, choked her, and attempted to abuse her while a four-year-old child and baby were present. A search is underway for the suspect as authorities investigate the assault in the rural area south of Manchac.
Travelogue from Lockhart to Dallas describes Texas cotton, farms, and towns booming. Jones reports up to a million bales in yards, vast farm prosperity, and heavy cotton trade, contrasting Texas growth with Georgia and urging diversification and self sufficiency.
On February 10th I left Walhallin for recreation visiting Atlanta Chattanooga Lookout Mountain and Chicago. I met old friends including Robert Ervin and Walker Pratt and traced family links through Dr C R Adam and Mrs Moss. I recounted kinfolk, graves and local histories, noting towns, names, and a century of memories before continuing to Resnen and Penple.
The readable line shows garbled dialogue about speaking to someone and a reference to a saloon. The fragment mentions a father figure and unclear names, with stray phrases about popularity and a product for bowel troubles. The text lacks coherent events or verifiable facts.
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