26 Oct 1899
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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1899
Page
1
The article surveys the Open Door policy and Southern state interests in trade across the Pacific, outlining diplomatic and economic implications for commerce, navigation rights, and regional influence amid shifting global markets. It notes key figures and institutions shaping policy and trade routes.
A South Carolina mill association writes Senator McLaurin urging support for open and equal trade rights with China. They warn against Russia and Germany expanding influence in Manchuria and stress cotton mill prosperity depends on continued China trade. Senator McLaurin responds endorsing open door and urging United States leadership to protect equal rights in commerce.
Governor Mo Sweeney and his staff visited New York, stopping near Newspaper Row before a navy yard bridge. A crowd of Cent a World newsboys mobbed the governor, who recalled his own boyhood, bought papers for the youngsters, and received an exuberant ovation before police helped extract him from the crowd.
The Cash Bargain Store promotes up to date clothing with wide discounts on suits for men youths and children. It guarantees wear and offers bargains on pants shoes and ladies garments while inviting customers to compare prices and visit the shop.
A political letter argues United States must balance trade and empire in the East, warning against pure political casings and urging defense of commercial interests in China while maintaining influence in the Philippines. Also mentions a May dispatch from Ian Grove and local notices on marriage and community events.
A discussion of Nancy Lanks Lincoln as celebrated by her son and a Maine Supreme Court ruling from 1886 on prohibition era noiszure law. The snippet critiques a North Carolina comparison and notes deputies must know liquor is on the premises before swearing warrants.
In Washington on October 20 rumors say Sir Thomas Lipton plans to invest five hundred thousand dollars to test tea culture in South Carolina. He leads Lipton Tea and Lipton Packing and Provision, owns large lands in Ceylon, and employs thousands on plantations. South Carolina experiments reportedly interest him despite no official confirmation.
A Huntsville prisoner, with one year left, asks for divorce from his wife who has lived there while visiting him. After her decision to remarry, the convict seizes his ax in the yard, cuts off his own arm, and offers the severed limb to the lawyer as a wedding gift before collapsing.
An old advertisement lists B B G Blood Balm as a universal purifier, promising permanent cures for numerous ailments from eruptions to scrofula and rheumatism. It sells in large bottles and offers free trial bottles by mail, with medical advice touted as free. A separate dispatch notes a cotton picker record in Georgia, and a mock political nah.
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