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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1912
Page
1
Correspondence to the editor explains a proposed warehouse and maintenance system and urges amendments to fit South Carolina. The writer contrasts Louisiana’s state controlled model with local needs, noting New Orleans access and cotton industry context while preserving farm self-sufficiency and acreage curtailment principles.
The New York Herald ran a sketch of Col Robert Anderson Thompson of Valhalla as the sole survivor of the South Carolina secession convention. The article praises his soldierly bearing at eighty five and notes a tablet in the State House in Columbia listing the 1860 declaration signers. The State reflects on reverence for those figures in South Carolinaitus.
South Carolina enacts a state warehouse commission to build a cotton storage facility for 150000 bales, issue bonds, hire staff, grade and track each bale with receipts, and operate a self sustaining system with fees to cover costs, taxes and future retirements while replacing prior storage acts.
A devastating morning blaze in Columbia wiped out most of a wholesale district block with losses near 250000 dollars. Firefighters battled for over three hours as west winds scattered sparks, igniting nearby houses stables and warehouses. A nearby McMillan residence caught fire but was quickly put out. Over 5000 spectators watched as a boy was injured by an automobile rushing to the scene. The crowd endured cold winds and several humorous incidents amid the fire.
A Colleton County South Carolina exchange urges farmers to start a bank account this fall regardless of the amount. It argues keeping money at home leads to loss and promotes deposits as a prudent habit that aids the community and makes borrowing easier when needed.
A speculative exercise asks what six wealthiest individuals like Rockefeller Morgan Astor Strathcona Carnegie and Rothschild could do with 5 billion dollars. It imagines funding wars ships railroads canals and even a Scotland land buy using their combined wealth.
The Progressive Farmer advises seed corn buyers to pay for quality and to purchase seed corn on the ear. It notes that good seed corn costs more to produce and buyers should expect higher prices, but ear corn reliably indicates quality and its higher cost is justified by better results.
The Progressive Farmer argues for a balanced approach to big business. Punish vicious trusts like the Tobacco Trust, enact strong anti monopoly laws, and create agencies to curb unfair methods. Preserve large scale economies while preventing monopolies and protecting the public from excessive pricing.
Election to fill the unexpired term of mayor S. B. Craig. Managers of election are D. B. Finney W. T. Griffin and J. L. Thornley. Voting place is City Hall. Notice issued by the Town Council.
Notice by J. B. Newberry Pension Commissioner stating he will be in the courthouse every day in January 1912 to assist old soldiers and widows to file applications for pensions and that new drawings will continue to receive pensions without further applications. Also includes a stray dog notice for a brown female setter named Della with a tumor on the hip and a reward for information.
Lists farm bulletins offered by Hon Wyatt Aiken with numbers and topics, followed by a real estate notice describing 55 acres near Pickens South Carolina including 25 acres cultivated and a 7 room two story house for sale with immediate possession possible through H. M. TER Pickens.
The article presents Prof Keitt’s analysis of cottonseed as fertilizer and exchange. It compares value by product: meal 750 lbs with $10.03 fertilizer value, hulls 978 lbs with $1.12, lint 22 lbs with $0.03, oil 250 lbs with no fertilizer value. It discusses prices, exchange rate, and options to roll in acid phosphate or exchange for meal, with guidance to consider profitability and home mixing. It also notes that 1100 lbs of meal costs $17.50 when selling price is $25.00 per ton and suggests sourcing acid, phosphate and potash via sale of seed.
In a 1911 annual solicitor’s report to the Legislature, Solicitor Procter A Bonham shows 139 of 13 percent of cases tried were acquitted. Among murder trials, 9 not guilty and 4 guilty out of 15. 2 dismissed. Adultery two not guilty two guilty. arson two not guilty two guilty. numerous other counts show mixed outcomes with many not guilty verdicts and numerous guilty findings across larceny burglary and related offenses.
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