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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1901
Page
1
A local store advertises a broad line of menswear and accessories including shirts shirt waists collars cuffs neckwear underwear hose and shoes. The ad emphasizes fit style price and a wide assortment of furnishing goods all geared to a masculine wardrobe.
Abbeville D C May 2 reports severe hail and heavy rain smashing grain and cotton in the region. Crops of Ifill and Sons Magill Thornt on Sandley and A W Smith largely wiped out, oats entirely destroyed. Some cotton stands may survive where chopped not done. Across towns, windows shattered and property damaged by the storm.
A vintage ad claims Mall's Great Discovery cures kidney and bladder troubles including gravel diabetes seminal emissions and rheumatism in men and women. It promises bladder regulation in children and offers mail order for $1.00 with testimonials from users in St Louis Missouri dated February 27, 1900.
Dr Hartzog of Clemson College announces farmers institutes to be held in a limited number of counties this summer. The course will cover recent agricultural research and local needs, with expenses paid by the college. Communities must provide venue and publicity, and at least fifteen citizens must petition by July 1. The annual State Institute opens at Clemson on August 12. Henry S Hartzog president. W J Baxter assisting. The notice also reports on DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve curing piles, the death of wealthy Negro DPastell in Kentucky, a tax bill removing war tax on certain documents, and a fatal whiskey incident in Horry County.
Fragment from an 19th century patent medicine advertisement arguing that gluttony is misdefined and describing Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery as curing stomach and digestion diseases It includes testimonials from Mrs Hooks of Poland Androscoggin County praising relief from indigestion after four bottles and notes Dr Pierce s Pills as cures for obstinacy and appetite issues
The writer details a trip from Greenville to Clemson College via Cherry’s Crossing, visiting the Cherry mansion grounds once home to Andrew Pickens. They describe the picnic with Seneca and Clemson youths, a grand lemonade churn, spinet music, and a festive table with Clemson capon, Hong Kong geese, and crowd chatter, ending with a nod to James T. Bavon.
A jumble of old ads and notices mocks remedies including Hall's Catarrh Cure from Toledo and Cascarets Candy Cathartic as popular cures. Mentions claims of mercury dangers, prescriptions, and testimonials, mixed with a South Carolina Democratic remark and a misprinted dog garter anecdote. Includes DeWitt's Early Risers and a German farmer quip about language.
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