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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1900
Page
1
C W Bauknight advertises ladies jackets at 2 dollars and children reefers at 1 dollar with a complete line of children's suits. He invites customers to view carpets and carpet furnishing options, promising competitive room carpeting prices and a full sample line.
In Claremont Massachusetts an old folks meeting saw attendees over 70 rise, with twelve over 80 and four over 90. A local paper mocks a new reporter and notes a near accident at Market Street as a cab nearly hit a child, with fortune favoring safety moments. It mentions One Minute Cough Cure and a misreported bond debt amount linked to Columbia.
A new express comic is reported to enter the Southern market, backed by wealthy backers and seasoned managers of other bio enterprises. If launched by year’s end, an express rate war could erupt, with shifts in railroad express pricing. Other notes mention Texas kidney remedies, a Chicago life-insurance probe, a Niagara bridge project, and unpaid Columbia clerk taxes totaling $20,000 with 1300 executions issued.
An article promotes Jocassee Valley in Whitewater Township Oconee County as an ideal summer resort away from seaside hotels. It highlights Whitewater River, falls, forests, walks and boating, plus new or planned summer houses by W. M. Brown, A L Whitmire, John Whitmire, and Henry Glazener. Visitors already enjoying the valley vow to return next summer.
A reader recalls a visit to Clemson College noting the stern work ethic of President Startzog and students. The piece praises unity, loyalty, and practical training in agriculture and textile departments, plus the college’s broad mission to educate South Carolina’s workforce and boost state prosperity.
The piece notes a November 6 election rallying voters to oppose Republican efforts to curb representation in the South by disfranchising incompetent voters. It warns readers to prepare registration tickets and poll tax receipts for use. It also reports ex Judge Mackey pushing to have his wife recommitted after attempts to remove her from a lunatic asylum.
The report by First Assistant Post-General Truth notes rural free delivery has become established with about distribution points across ten states and one territory. Current appropriations are 460,000, but next year 0,000 will allow broader consideration as rural carriers serve nearly half a million people and some fourth-class post offices make free delivery cheaper than the old system.
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