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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
7
A Gill Company druggist letter from Starkville Mississippi dated September 29 1916 praises Kilmer Swamp root for kidney and bladder relief. It offers sample bottles for ten cents and urges readers to mention the local paper. Large and medium bottles are sold at drug stores.
A clipped Louisv ille Courier Journal remark quotes a nursery rhyme line about Jack Spratt avoiding fat and his wife avoiding lean, then humorously notes Mr. Wombat calling them “High types of food conservers” as a light cultural aside.
A terse remark contrasts arrogance with a coal dealer, noting he lorded it over the dealer last winter. The exchange suggests a reputation for haughty conduct without detailing further events or individuals.
A war veteran returning home from furlough breaks an arm after colliding with a porter’s barrow in a dark side street. The injury heals, but inquiries loom while a former rival taunts him about wartime wounds. He retorts that readers should consult the war news.
Fragments mention a Catriothe motion and a reference to Thad dating in April with summer labor on a farm. Advert text touts Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as a gentle tonic and purifier. A crusty bachelor contemplates making his own bread.
Prosecuting Attorney Norace G Murphy and deputies raided a Muncie blind tiger Sunday morning arresting 50 people. The wife of one detainee confides to elevator man Billy Blamey that she fears for Sunday dinner as meat costs rise and her husband has yet to return with meat.
A distraught mother laments the possibility of her infant son being drafted. Another woman consoles her, noting that the son has just turned six months old and may not be registered yet. The exchange reveals wartime anxieties among mothers.
Grove's Whenever You Need a General Tonic claims quinine and iron to tonify the liver blood and system for 60 cents. A New York domestic relations court moment injects humor as a judge notes a defendant's wife actually likes him despite his lament.
An old Scottish woman says the neighbor asks if a hen is a good bird. She admits the hen has one fault: she will lay on the Lord's day. The exchange ends with a wry note about propriety and humor.
In a stage scene, the manager challenges Jefferson Hamlet about his qualifications as a first-class actor. Hamlet quips that his slight deafness stems from eighty years of applause, implying the praise has shaped his hearing.
Quote fragments show a conservationist asked about fishing luck replying no fish caught yet noting bait lasted a long time. Another line mocks society women dancing barefoot and calls it bare faced. The bits hint at a lively social scene with dry humor.
A vivid portrait of Spokane portraying its rapid growth from a wilderness outpost to a bustling city powered by a river dynamo. The piece highlights outdoor life, nearby Indians in teepees, and a striking blend of urban amenities with rugged, frontier charm amid fifty lakes and surrounding mountains. It notes 1858 defeats of local Indians and 1881 locomotive arrival, fires, and electric power driving wealth to the region. It ends with a note on political tension.
T L Robinson of Greenville elected state councillor at the Junior Order State Council meeting in Rock Hill with 175 delegates present. A close vote chose Greenville over Aiken for next meeting site, 86 to 84, as officers including J A Barrett and J S Wilson were elected. Attendance exceeded 170 with 90 councils represented and about 7,000 total members in 111 councils statewide.
Charles B. Corley supervisor of Lexington county and F. H. Murray acting state highway commissioner returned from a tour of the proposed government highway from Columbia through the lower state to Florida. They checked two routes, one via Brookland Cayce Horgan Swamp Gaston Swansea and Blackville, touching Dunbar Blackville Orangeburg Edmund Pelton and Perry. Residents along the railroads urge the highway.
The McCormick county commission for permanent highways awarded most road contracts to Ross and Platt of Crewe Virginia and Greensboro North Carolina. United States highway engineer W H Rhodes attended the meeting along with acting state highway engineer I M Murray to confer with the commission.
Fred DeStafino of Gaffney wrote to the Washington war department with ideas he believes could aid the allies. An adjutant general thanked him and said the suggestion would be investigated. DeStafino cannot go to the front due to his physical condition but wants to contribute to the war effort.
The Twenty-Second New York National Guard Company D engineers, 162 men under Captain George D. Snyder, arrive in Spartanburg and report to quarters between Union and Marion streets as the army camp nears readiness. Mayor J. Willoyd and Chamber officials welcome them. locals host the soldiers for meals. Charles W. Dietrich leads YMCA work at Camp Wadsworth with five new buildings planned, each to house a piano, photos, and supplies. Rock Hill fire chief Louis Behrens speaks on fire prevention in the Chamber hall, urging strict enforcement of fire laws, community duties, and ready firefighting resources.
The Tri County Farmers Cotton Marketing Association formed in Sumter S C unites cotton growers from Sumter Lee and Clarendon counties about 50 members joined directors named Kalb Sanders Rowan Williams Lemmon Jenkins Broughton and others a membership drive will expand across all three counties.
B V Starnes of Kings Creek Cherokee county claims his turnips reach 12 pounds. He exhibited a cabbage in Gaffney weighing 1213 pounds and says he has many other heads of similar size.
Col E J Watson, SC commissioner, urged inclusion of sweet potato in soldiers commissary diet. A Live Stock association meeting occurred in Rock Hill. Spartanburg reports completion of a water main to Camp Wadsworth. State ag dept seizes inferior corn meal, destroying several shipments from last year's crop. Descenst Marvehal Mananal Slanewda
An old newspaper ad promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe liver and bowel cleanser, contrasting it with calomel mercury and claiming it cleans sluggish livers without causing salivation. The copy urges readers to buy a 50 cent bottle, with a money back guarantee and health benefits the next morning.
The fragment cites remedies such as Dead Shot Vermifage and mentions a belief that worms cannot be fully eradicated. It includes mock dialogue about family pride and a small bedtime scene from Los Angeles Times, with scattered phrases on heredity, diet, and odd snippets.
The ad promotes a lemon skin lotion made from two lemons and three ounces of orchard white, yielding a quarter pint to a month’s supply. It claims lemon juice lightens blemishes, whitens, softens, and freshens skin and hands with daily facial massage.
A hurried man pushed into a New York subway car at Brooklyn Bridge station and collided with Wetherman. The aggressor shouted threats while others in the car ridiculed the scene as Wetherman quipped about being in the draft. The confrontation drew laughter from fellow passengers.
A Boston Transcript item describes Charlestown children celebrating Bunker Till Day by exploding torpedoes. Nellie asks how Germans blow a big ship with one, and Tommy explains torpedo size and the derrick used to lift and drop them.
A brief humorous note contrasts how language evolves with mentions of food longing and scarcity. It jokes that the world was once seen as square by the ancients before modern politics, and notes that investigation committees were invented.
A humorous exchange notes colonial obedience reputations going overboard at the Boston tea party and adds that many reputations have followed suit at ten parties since. The judge-like line frames satire on colonial mythmaking and social custom.
Infections or inflammations of the eyes are healed by Roman Eye Balsam used at night. Ady Valley Washington will gain a new hospital funded by contributions from farmers.
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