Taxation and Appropriations Challenge Legislature
The state faces a tightening fiscal outlook with a $300000 borrowing need this year and possible deficits even after taxes. Past overspending includes $50000 for Charleston Exposition and large pension hikes, signaling strict economy for the next session. Also noted are a long-standing money order issue, a potential lecture tour for Rucker, and pension rolls crossing one million with July additions boosting totals.
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State House
Columbia Record
The Holland Primrose Evening Bloom in Holland
The evening primrose grows five to six feet tall in Holland and bears large yellow flowers that bloom just before sunset. The flowers open suddenly, seeming to be touched by a wand, as if the land were covered with a golden sheet.
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Holland
Father and Faith in Rich Land and Sky
A collection of short items notes wealth and piety with a playful tale of a nurse and her father, a political committee reshuffles for federal appointments, a doctor and a prank, a divorce-like estate condition, Sam Small’s alcohol woes, and a western joke about a man Moon and a total eclipse with a rolling pin.
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Moon
Kalamazoon
Indianapolis News
Original Observations from Orange Observer
An An Towa woman names twin daughters Gasoline and Kerosene, warning of danger when sparks fly. The piece mocks quirky phrases like the skector bill and hornet sting, while a maiden cries that Father is coming. It questions fashion sense when a dress is overly long yet held high.
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Orange
We Sell Shoes Battle Axe and Queen Quality Brands
Advertises Bion F Reynold's Shoes for men Julia Marlowe and Stool Shoel for youth Battle Axe Shoes for all appeal to buyers with American craftsmanship, material quality and cash savings. Emphasizes brands trusted by customers and urges price comparisons and prompt purchase.
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Bion F. Reynold
Queen Quality
Julia Marlowe
America
A. B.C
Lyrical Snips and Pithy Jokes in the Nation's Ink
A collage of quoted items and witticisms on lynching views, Panama Canal talks, drowning myths, South Carolina resources, fashion, marriage foibles, and a tax plan for federal salaries. Includes Punchline quips about kissing, dogs, and a fox terrier.
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Oregon
South
Charleston Post
North Carolina
Free enlarged photo or frame with purchase
Notice offers a free enlarged photograph or frame to customers spending twenty dollars in any line except Groceries. Ten-dollar buyers get a choice of photo or frame. Frame and photo are presented as a no catch deal with guarantees of perfect workmanship.
New Dry Goods Stock With Wide Range Of Prices
My Dry Goods Department offers extensive selections from cheap to best quality. Includes 1,600 yard and 2,600 yard fabrics, jeans from 1.20, wool flannel in several colors, worsted dress goods, wool dress goods, linings and trimmings. Ladies and men’s vests, union suits for all ages, and a full range for men, women, and children.
Bargain Shoe Lot Offers Wide Range of Styles
A local sale advertises shoes of all kinds including 300 pairs of ladies shoes, 50 pairs men’s fine shoes, 200 pairs misses and children’s shoes, and 50 pairs children’s copper tip poka shoes. Prices are deep discounts from $1.00 to $2.00, with sizes noted and shop-worn but usable. The seller urges inspecting stock before buying and notes a broader regular stock fitting from infants to men’s size 14.
Local Wholesale Hosiery Line Promises Low Mill Prices
A merchant announces expanded stock and wholesale pricing on groceries and hosiery. Advertises granulated sugar, roasted coffee, green coffee, soda, cleaning products, octavon cakes, and a fall wool hosiery line for men women and children with bargain bundles and bulk discounts.
Furniture and Stoves Best Prices in Town
Furniture, stoves and related items offered with low prices. Stoves from 8.50 to 25.00, bedsteads 1.50 to 15.00, bureaus 3.50 to 25.00, plus side boards wardrobes springs mattresses pillows tables and iron beds. Neat prices claimed as cheap as the cheapest.
One Constitutional Amendment on Railroad Bonded Debt
The Columbia correspondence notes a single constitutional amendment at the next general election. It seeks to dissolve the corporate existence of eight townships that issued bonds for railroads not built, removing corporate agents to escape debt. The move alarmingly aims to erase township existence and faces court challenges. the report also mentions cures for catarrh and various anecdotes from the Washington Post and local presses.
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Columbia
News and Courier
Two Murderers Hanged in Oxford Mississippi
In Oxford Mississippi on September 24 two men were hanged for murdering Deputy U S Marshals John A Montgomery and Hugh H Montgomery near Mathis home on November 16. Mathis white and Orlando Lester colored were executed after complicity by others.
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Oxford
Miss
Will Mathis
Orlando Lester
United States
John A
Hugh H. Montgomery
Mathis
Yacona
Bill Jackson
George
Jacoon
Whit Owens
Heredity in Crime in London’s Seven Dials
London authorities reveal a striking heredity in crime from a Westminster woman who died in 1827. Her 800 descendants include 700 convicted criminals, with 342 habitual drinkers and 127 women of evil habits, and 37 executed for murder in the Seven Dials district. Separate suit seeks 15000 damages from Seaboard Air Line R R over an egging incident tied to a public speech.
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London
F. J. Allen
City of Westminster
Seven Dials
North Carolina
Seaboard Air Line
R. R
Jtown
Health remedies promise beauty health and vitality
A Victorian advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery as cures for female ills and general health, claiming benefits like regaining energy and regularity. Testimonials praise dramatic improvements in health and stamina, with requests for the doctor’s medical adviser.
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Mali
Pierce
Golden Medical
Incov
Hiner D. Shearer
Mount. Hope
Lancaster Co
Teria
Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N.Y
A Certain Cure for Snake Bite
A Clayton Georgia Tribune reader shares an Indian snake bite remedy. It prescribes gathering sweet fern roots and tops, snake root, salve weed, boiling in sweet milk, applying a poultice of devil shoe string fire weed and wild rose, then binding with salt peter for several days.
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Rabun County
the Tribune
J. ST. Williams
Clayton (Ga
Tribune
Army pensioners lead states by numbers and spend
The report notes Pennsylvania hosts the most pensioners in 1901 at 104,845 drawing 15,878,378.37 dollars, followed by Ohio with 104,301 and 15,211,127.88 dollars. New York lists 88,794 pensioners on June 80 1901 with 11,981,875.89 dollars paid, while Indiana has 66,974 pensioners and 10,291,896.76 dollars. The five states exceed 460,500,000 annually. the pension roll fuels Republican prosperity alongside a meat famine in Germany due to embargos on foreign meats. Municipalities seek raising the embargo on imports.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
New York
Indiana
Trindig
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KE. M. Rucker, Jr
National Congressional Democratic Committee
James Griggs
Anderson
Washington
Ware
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Holland Primrose
Tite Ue Karl
Earl
Heaven
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J. W. Byrd & CO
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Richardson & Byrd
South Carolina
Union
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May
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Toledo
Brownlow
Tennessee
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W. G. Gileteap
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B. F. Perry
Court House
Greenville
D.C
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Macon
Cordele
George Bundrick
John J. Shronder
Raines
Bundrick
Shronder
Shrouer
Shrouder
Hia Fom
Bandrick
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Shrender
Heyward
Friends of
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Jim Tillman
Dr. Timmerman
Tillman
Spartanburg Journal
Germany
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