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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1900
Page
1
Com P. W Bauknight advertises Ladies jackets at two dollars, children's reefers at one dollar, and complete children’s suits. He invites customers to view carpets and carpet furnishings with a full line of samples available.
Notice lists final settlement and discharge actions in Oconee County. Names mentioned include Margie de Rantellr, Karnsay Doyle, Virginia tones, Mamie By Stmpson, and Alexander Ramsay among others. The document references probate proceedings, county court actions, and a stated date of September 12 1900 with a formal petition and proceedings under local law.
Fragmented notices report county treasurer tax collections and executor notices for the Sanders estate. A murder report from Richmond County describes S Richardson killed by his son David after a knife attack, with conflicting family accounts. Crop yields are forecast by the Nebraska Grain Men's Association. Parishioners threaten retribution over name mentions.
Local notes report Mattie Zimmerman visiting Greenville and Magon Peden Bros selling stock to L A Howards & Co. Southern Thier-State Mail opens in Atlanta as rail rates drop. A cemetery cleanup at Oldestutiuéner Cemetery is urged for October 20. Community updates include Mr deol Stewart’s visit, church services, a new editor for Ovonce News, and birthday celebrations.
The National Democratic Committee lists drastic price hikes from numerous trusts in goods from barbed wire to brick and rope. It argues raw materials have risen for producers while manufactured items stay flat or fall, boosting living costs and squeezing labor. Senator McLaurin visits Washington amid talk of Bryan's possible victory and a solid Southern Democratic stance.
The piece surveys pensioners from the Revolutionary era, Civil War widows, and War of 1812 veterans, noting dwindling numbers but enduring widows. It cites Hiram Cronk near 100 in New York, and discusses Civil War pension rolls, then shifts to gifts from Washington Duke to Union colleges, Carnegie library openings, Boxers’ missionary fatalities, and U S postal revenue growth to 1900, with figures and entities like Harper’s Weekly, American Bible Society, and the Department of the Postmaster General.
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