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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1914
Page
2
A chaotic 1914 weather note mentions snow in Connecticut on June 21 while political snippets reference Candidate Jennings, Theodore Roosevelt, and President Wilson. The item notes fertilizer mixers meeting in Atlanta and a convention of North Carolina specialists amid garbled commentary on public figures.
Secretary of State W J Bryan plans to address Statesville North Carolina on July 4 pending no clash with official duties. The event brings regional attention as Western Tarhelia reacts with optimism.
A historic note claims the court ruled former slaves lack inheritable blood properties and cannot inherit property by kinship, implying a critique of the Fourteenth Amendment. The language reflects a period use of racial and legal theories shaping post emancipation rights.
The discussion claims Thaw’s wish to return to Pittsburgh suggests lack of sanity, while opting to leave New Hampshire is cited as evidence of sound mental state. The remark frames a controversial view on his condition and whereabouts.
The late C. W. Post left an estate of 29 million dollars, noted for its grandeur and the publicity around it. An incident in Greenville last month featured John L. McLaurin introduced as the next governor, with Governor Blease and Sam Nichols present, sparking talk of political missteps.
At the International Association of Chiefs of Police meeting in Grand Rapids Michigan last week Detective Burns was removed from the honorary membership list without a stated reason. It was described as a general principle firing.
The Senate faces a section of an anti trust bill likely to pass. Big Business and their newspapers are expected to launch another calamity campaign against the administration, claiming a clash with honest statesmanship.
President Harrison of the Southern Railway company has sent a circular to every officer and employee stressing politeness and courtesy to the public as a primary management rule and urging careful observance.
The annual raise from 1100 to 1200 dollars for rural free delivery carriers is advantageous to postmasters. It makes monthly checks equal to one hundred dollars, instead of ninety one and two thirds one month and ninety one and a third the next. The increase takes effect July 1, adding one hundred dollars per year per carrier.
The summer heat hurts cartoonists and tones down their output. A jokey aside notes high inflation on advice and a plan to build a pipeline to Milwaukee remains stalled due to finding the right pipe size. Teddy claims he will not run for New York governor, easing concerns for the state.
A fan-friendly note celebrates Alaska baseball played at night under the midnight sun. The warm climate and cool evenings let spectators stay in the bleachers without sweating, embracing extended games and outdoor play.
A humorous fragment questions how Colonel Roosevelt would govern in heaven were he to fail on earth. The playful remark imagines St. Peter facing Roosevelt’s demands and methods as he would run things in the afterlife.
A Kansas editor recalls starting with fifty five cents and turning it into $100 000 over twenty years through frugal habits and a $99 999 inheritance from an uncle. A humorist note from the Salina freight depot offered harvest hands at three dollars a day and college students at one dollar twenty five cents.
The state claims to be the hottest place on earth as Greensboro reports 103 degrees in the shade, edging out Columbia by one degree.
President Wilson called for Recorder Johnson resignation amid White House complaints. Johnson, from Atlanta, will be replaced but a successor has not been named. This marks the first time in over two decades a white man will hold the post.
California Senator Works introduces a bill prohibiting tips to waiters and porters on trains and steamboats engaged in interstate commerce and forbidding employers from paying wages so low that tips become essential. The proposal faces several likely obstacles.
President Wilson commuted sentences of four of twenty four dynamiters convicted in a labor strike related conspiracy. Six conspirators were granted new trials. The condemned were convicted of conspiracy and interstate transport of dynamite to wreck buildings and other structures. The president gave no reason but followed the attorney general’s recommendations.
A brief poem recalls Mabel Rose seated in neat repose as her brother Jack places a tack. The whimsy centers on a simple domestic scene with a playful rhyme.
The Fourth of July celebration sees fewer fatalities and injuries across the country as the sane Fourth movement spreads. Last year only eight deaths and 365 injuries recorded nationwide, with Kansas towns enacting bans on dangerous firework practices to save lives and limbs.
W D Magic of Whitemound Wisconsin bought Chamberlains medicine to supply customers. After receiving it he fell ill and says one small bottle of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was worth more to him than the cost of his entire stock. For sale by all dealers.
Campaign dates listed for next week across multiple cities. Yorkville July 2 Saturday Gaffney July 3 Friday Spartanburg July 4 Saturday Union July 8 Wednesday Newberry July 10 Friday State Chesterfield July 2 Thursday Camden July 3 Friday Columbia July 4 Saturday Lexington July 9 Thursday Saluda July 10 Friday
A Fourth of July poem celebrates the schoolhouse flag and national unity as the centuries of legend pass. It is followed by a brief note on Benjamin Franklin’s London suit and his vow to wear it again only after American independence.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, famed American novelist and short story writer, was born on July 4 1804, an event noted as a milestone in American literary history.
A verse list recounts the signers by colony, praising their sacrifice and naming Hancock Gerry Paine Adams Adams Samuel Adams, Whipple Bartlett Thornton and others from MA to GA. It highlights Jefferson as foremost and recalls figures from DE MD VA NC SC and GA.
Walpole prophesies England will be conquered in America calling Boston tea rebellion and noting Old Glory symbolized by Little Red, White, Blue. He references public and private news absence and a dramatic ostrich egg in America as a metaphor for colonial defiance against Parliament.
In 1826 the aging Thomas Jefferson and John Adams near 80 and 90 respectively witness Independence Day celebrations. An invited toast at Quincy prompts Adams to say independence forever with no further additions, amid their fading health and lingering devotion to the republic.
The Erie canal began July 4 1817 with Governor De Witt Clinton turning the first sod. On July 4 1828 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened with Charles Carroll of Carrollton present, noting the act as highly significant. Carroll urged civic virtue and republic happiness citing the Declaration. The Earl of Stirling, a British peer who served as a major general for America, was noted for supporting Washington and dying in Albany in 1783.
The July 4, 1850 cornerstone laying for the Washington Monument occurred on a hot day. President Taylor endured three hours in the sun, returning to the White House and drinking ice water milk and cherries. He fell ill shortly after and died July 9.
An essay citing July Fourth as not only American independence but England’s crown’s retreat from taxing rights, tracing English liberty from Elizabeth to Victoria. It argues the holiday marks triumph of the people over the crown and the rise of a republic tied to English reform and colonization.
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