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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1914
Page
4
The Pickens Sentinel reports scattered remarks on politics and public figures. It notes reader reactions to a U.S. Senate race, mentions The Lancaster News on road work, and recalls a California incident involving the Industrial Workers of the World and a "General" Kelly mob.
Pickens county advances to the front with ink examiners and circuit for the effort. The Tribune notes the push to be at the lead, highlighting county readiness and organizational steps.
Ex President Patt says he will not accept college or university leadership due to claimed unsuitability. The Edgefield Advertiser notes Pickens gains attention by supplying a judge for the Thirteenth circuit and a state bank examiner. Bertha M. Clay dies, known for many love stories. her true name was Thomas W. Henshaw, and Barnum’s famed bearded lady is also deceased with a wife and several children.
The article laments Uncle Sam’s parcel post hurting large express carriers including United States Express and predicts more collapse as adoption widens. It questions Greenville Piedmont’s stance on county boundaries and parades concerns about ads versus phonographs in campaigns while noting reactions to charitable gifts and funding ethics.
Fragment discusses endowments by mogic and Rockefeller linked to libraries and colleges near Washington D C It claims a gift of 500 and a half a million toward a Protestant church on Mt Star in the suburbs of Wash DC It mocks figures like John D and criticizes Sunday papers for coverage.
A Breeders' Gazette tribute extols ordinary workers facing winter mud and hard tasks. It honors farm families, noting a farmer and a devoted wife behind enduring toil, worry over crops, and quiet resilience as they persevere with hopeful resolve.
A Christian Guardian excerpt urges readers to stop envying others tasks and places. It argues true improvement comes from doing well where you are, not from wishing to be elsewhere, and that personal change can begin now.
Advocates of woman suffrage say they are UNDeterred after losing in the Senate with a 35 to 34 vote against a constitutional amendment granting women voting rights. They note a two thirds affirmative vote was required and plan a Washington demonstration on May 9 with about 10,000 women expected to participate.
Secretary of State W J Bryan was 54 years old Thursday. The Southern railway issues 1000 mileage books valid for any family member. Chicora College Greenville will be moved to North Main Street on a 200 acre tract. the present property will be sold after a board meeting. W R B Smith of Samson mill village Greenville, 50, committed suicide Thursday. verdict cites shotgun blast. he leaves a wife and six children.
Mr. Jay Robinson, after three years in Atlanta, remains at Norris to oversee his farm near town. A cottage is being erected on the property under contract awarded to Mr. Frank Massey.
Local Rexall ad promotes Dyspepsia and Indigestion tablets with a money back guarantee if they fail to help. Mentions pepsin and bismuth, digestion relief, and other benefits. Sold exclusively at the local Rexall outlet with three sizes priced five ten and one dollar.
On the third Sunday in April Cross Roads Church hosts an all day song service inviting singers from Pickens and nearby counties. Rev. J. T. Mann the blind evangelist will preach at 11 a.m. Dinner will be served on the ground. D. W. H.
An ex-change asserts advertising strengthens a town by keeping money local and drawing funds from surrounding areas. It stimulates competition that improves stores and goods, enhances newspapers, and attracts more money and people to the community.
The Anderson Mail notes the Sentinel is gone with a man in a red flannel shirt and a barrow knife, suggesting a mobile or retiring operation. The line hints at a transition or closure in local print life.
Chamberlain's Tablets offered for constipation praised as mild and gentle. Easy to take and effective. Available for sale by all dealers.
A petition circulates among Anderson and Anderson county voters to decide if an election on the dispensary should be held again. Once enough signatures are obtained it goes to the board of commissioners for approval. The dispensary issue was previously raised in Abbeville last summer, with a vote against its return.
A Wakelee Mich man P H Beck reports a year of stomach trouble ended after using Chamberlains Tablets. He had tried many remedies before finding lasting relief. For sale by all dealers. Adv.
Mrs E W Cooper of Bloomfield New Jersey says her seven year old child recovered from a six week illness after using Vind Vinci was described as a safe tonic combining cod liver oil and iron for the blood and printed on every package for mothers. Pickens Drug Co Pickens SC endorses a trial on guarantee.
A heartfelt obituary note states a beloved grandson died on February 16, 1914, and has joined his father and mother in heaven. The message expresses sorrow, faith, and hope of reunion on the golden shore, with comforting lines about Jesus gently enfolding him.
In keeping with Senate custom the widow of late Georgia Senator A. O. Bacon was granted seven thousand five hundred dollars, equal to a year’s pay, by the body last Thursday.
The urgent deficiency bill passed the senate with a 47000 appropriation to establish a pellegra field hospital in Spartanburg. The facility will be federally funded and overseen by the U S Public Health Service to serve pellegra patients from South Carolina and neighboring states. Physicians will be stationed to study the disease across the south.
The Western Union Telegraph Co. plans to reopen a telegraph office in Easley soon, resuming local service and providing renewed dispatch and message handling for residents.
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