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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1893
Page
2
Subscription price fixed at 81.50 per year in advance. Six months cost 74 cents. Ads charged at one dollar per square inch for first insertion and 50 cents for each further insertion. Merchants offered liberal six month or yearly discounts. Obituary tributes over five lines and personal communications treated as ads.
A Coast-to-Coast South Carolina column argues Governor Tillman’s administration harms the state while praising selective actions. It rebuts a correspondent’s praise and accuses Tillman of favoritism, dispensary overreach, and tax increases as it defends the so‑called common class and its anti‑Tillman stance.
The article mocks President Cleveland’s picks William Perry Murphy as district attorney and Josiah Donn as Georgetown postmaster. It denounces Attorney General Townsend for loosening liquor laws, predicts cheap whiskey and dispensary collapse, and criticizes Chief Justice Puller over Sunday World’s Fair access. It notes Governor Tillman appointing forty constables to crackdown blind tigers.
A local column recalls a court hearing where a dance was allowed after a injunction was denied. The piece recounts church letters, a preacher’s sermon about decoys, and a longstanding family dispute tied to a birthday party hosted by a Presbyterian elder, with Rev. Stewart and Rev. Hillhouse present.
Town notices all lot owners and occupants to repair and improve sidewalks adjacent to their property within ten days by order of council Intendant Jenius BE Boaas.
Morris announces a wide assortment including flour sugar coffee rice canned goods crackers and candies dry goods clothing tobacco kerosene oil turpentine spices and more. The ad invites customers to come and see the selection and bargains.
Local business Byars and Morgan announce relocation of Market and Restaurant to the Lesley house with plans to serve friends. They offer sewing machines for sale cheap for cash or trade for pork or beef and invite customers to call, promising to please.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions publicity and advertising arrangements with local entities. Difficult to identify names, places, or a clear event. No cohesive facts or identifiable individuals present.
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