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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1913
Page
2
A compact catalog of actions and incidents from Washington. Highlights include policy moves from federal agencies, crime reports, and casualty notices reflecting the week's national developments.
Reports to Attorney General McReynolds indicate a cold storage combine. Secretary Lane withdraws 67 900 000 acres of land from public entry through November 30. McReynolds vows opposition to anti trust court decrees lacking real dissolution. Second class postmasters ordered to use rural carriers for parcel post within cities during holiday rush.
Mrs Roosevelt and her niece Margaret travel by ship from Colon to New York. President Taft addresses the New York Peace Society, warning against any move to abandon efforts for peace.
Secretary Bryan told the Canadian Society at Delmonico’s in New York City that the Monroe Doctrine would spark serious controversy yet urged world peace. President Wilson opposes vivi section.
General Pittsburgh plans a Municipal Christmas Tree while Mayor Kline bars ticklers on New Year Eve. Citizens note flood damage in Texas exceeding six million dollars and political skirmishes erupt across the nation involving senators, vivisection debates, and local elections as new plants and wages surface in industry.
The record notes 1 200 successful women farmers in Kansas escaping downturns, while other items report a fire loss of five hundred thousand dollars in Cohoes New York and a canal rim raise planned at Gatun Lake to 105 feet above sea level.
Sporting star Joseph Tinker, former Reds manager and celebrated shortstop, is sold to Brooklyn for 25000. Hermann to pay 10000 of the sum on signing a Brooklyn contract with a 7500 salary.
A famous picture the Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre in Paris has been recovered in Florence Italy. The report lists other international items including apologies from Cuba to three American girls detained in Havana and customs in Belfast seizing 200 rifles from a German freighter.
A poem attributed to Henry Howland encourages leaving a cheerless town and walking toward peaceful meadows and new hopes. It promises strength with each step and shifts focus from shared sadness to personal courage despite the crowd.
A satirical column muses on revenge, champagne, breach of promise letters, and courage. It weighs how old love letters outvalue their paper, and jokes that fear of speed limits disqualifies a person from heroism, closing with a coy line about a woman sighing.
The passage shows a fiancé lamenting wasted time with his fiancée and a fiancée fretting over clothing choices and scarce opportunities to wear them. It depicts tensions over social obligations and expectations before and after marriage.
A humorous verse recalls a boy Henry who prefers a future as a parachute artist over following his father the tight rope walker. It contrasts a father praised for skill with a mother praised for virtue and guidance shaping character. A second brief skit jokes about cost savings by reading magazines in-store.
A witty remark about birth rank and social acceptance cites a man as “the seventh son of a seventh son.” It notes that such heritage, claimed as a sign of rarity, would keep his people from mainstream society.
A New York physician quips that women wearing thin stockings and thin soled shoes cause doctors' bankruptcies. The ad cites Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs and colds as effective, pleasant, and safe, recommended by dealers for sale.
Advertisement offers two houses for sale in Pickens at bargain prices with terms on request. Additional Pickens property also offered at bargain prices. Respond to J. R. Ashmore Lisbon Florida with prices or offers.
An advertisement asserts catarrh is constitutional, not local, and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from Cheney &Co Toledo Ohio as the only constitutional remedy. It states internal use with doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful and offers a money back guarantee if not cured, with endorsements for Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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