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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
2
A Clemson professor argues church progress mirrors home piety and farm prosperity. He links prayer and missions to farming success, urging churches to support good roads and farm management to boost income and community welfare. The piece also notes the Sentinel’s editor change and an upcoming Christmas program with Red Cross seals sales.
A historical newspaper snippet touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy. It claims local treatments fail and asserts the medicine, taken internally, cures by acting through the blood on mucous surfaces. An offer of reward for proof of cure is included along with testimonial notes and a Toledo, Ohio manufacturer.
An early health notice warns against alcohol in medicines and touts Granger Liver Regulator as a safe, vegetable remedy free from calomel and other poisons. It claims widespread use in homes, suitable for headaches and digestive issues, priced 25 cents for a large box.
Keowee church near Honea Path in Abbeville county sends a Thanksgiving gift of twenty two fine hens and roosters to pastor Rev. D Weston Hiott. Pisgah Church members add fresh pork, praising his readiness to help in sickness and death and wishing many more years of service and a fruitful ministry.
A 95 percent figure links common ailments to auto intoxication caused by neglect of body organs. Vitona, a new American discovery, is advertised as a stomachic tonic and invigorant that purportedly combats this poisoning and restores youthful vigor. Sold by Keowee Pharmacy and Pickens Drug Company.
Real estate ad listing 28 acres of good land one mile from Wesleyan College and one mile from town with 18 acres of bottom land and timber plus a separate note about a Keeley Institute address in Columbia South Carolina. Also contains dissolution of partnership notice for Gaines and Hamilton dated November 1917.
An advertisement promotes L-Rheumo as a long trusted remedy for pains and illnesses. It urges readers to keep the treatment at home and take it at the first sign of discomfort, naming Central Drug Co in Central, South Carolina, and Pickens Drug Co in Pickens, South Carolina.
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