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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1913
Page
2
The Sentinel notes the entry of a second class matter at the Plexene Fort office and states it does not endorse correspondent views.
The writer urges Pickens county lawmakers to replace the current pension system with universal pensions for all veterans and widows. Proposes scale by years served plus extra for disabilities and suggests selling the soldiers' home to fund the plan. Stresses immediate action and fairness.
A stream of curious notes from the rural press covers local intrigues from Mr Salzer’s implied impeachment questions to a Richland County Senate bid by Mr Jones. Weather, crops, and farm life fill pages with hopeful lines as farmers smile and production rises. A Greenville Piedmont photo of Trig Speaker prompts blunt jests about pellagra and baseball averages. Watermelon season brings talk of producing a thin dime for a bite.
A Pickens Sentinel note reports a young woman sustaining a broken rib from a fallen limb and a nearby headline claims a young man was killed by a falling limb. Editors spar over responsibility, while the Easley Progress defends not owning the limb.
A five year project poem faces a grim note none of Titanic or Gettysburg scenes. A youth with a cigarette in a Mississippi dynamite warehouse triggers disaster symbolism. The Pickens Sentinel attacks bottling plants, urging action against Milwaukee’s fame plant. A quip from Gaffney Ledger questions how to seize on it.
A church form urges each member church to set its own apportionments for the association year. It lists suggested allocations including State Missions 25 dollars Foreign Missions 25 Home Missions 20 Orphans 10 Old Ministers 10 Ministerial Education 5 Dix Mile Academy 10 and Current expenses 2 dollars.
A quirky moon poem extols the moon’s bright silvery light and perfect metre. The text shifts to a Toledo Ohio patent medicine testimonial claiming Hall’s Catarrh Cure and related remedies will cure catarrh and constipation with notary attestations and endorsements.
Mr and Mrs Claud Boggs of Calhoun visited W C Clayton and M H Newton last week. H H Newton visited Pendleton this week. Elma Clayton returned from Anderson where she attended the Normal. J C Garrett of Norris spoke at Smiths Chapel Sunday. Tirzah Hughes and niece Essie Clayton visited relatives in Greenville and Irene and Clara Newton of Pendleton visited friends in the area. Mrs W A Wilson of Greenville returned from a week with her parents. J A Davis of Spartanburg is visiting relatives on Route 3. Lara Pickens and brother from Anderson visited Elma Clayton last week.
The Norris South Carolina banking coalition presents a 1918 statement detailing assets such as loans and discounts overdrafts and cash items, and liabilities including capital stock paid in surplus and deposits. Notaries certify the figures as true representations of the bank’s books.
I was troubled with constipation and indigestion and spent hundreds of dollars for medicine and treatment. I went to a St. Louis hospital and a New Orleans hospital but no cure happened. On returning home I began taking Chamberlain's Tablets and am now all right. Sold by all dealers.
The document presents a bank's quarterly or annual statement with assets and liabilities figures including currency, gold, silver, cash items, and various deposits. It includes totals for assets and notes as sworn by cashier L. M. Mauldin and notarized by Frank McFall with signatures of directors J. M. Stewart, J. M. Bruce, and I. M. Mauldin.
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