Fair Visit Boosts State Jubilee Revenue and Attendance
About 100000 visitors spent an estimated 500000 during the week at the state fair and harvest jubilee. Railways carried thousands more and Big Thursday alone saw over 60000 street railway passengers. Hotels restaurants and private homes hosted visitors, with a generally prosperous week and plans for a bigger jubilee next year.
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Columbia
State Fair Society
Fair Grounds
Information Bureau
Thej
jub/le committee
Charleston
Gaffney Seeks White Way and Mail Box Upgrade
A circulating petition in Gaffney asks the board of public works to build a white way in town. Support grows as Limestone street paving advances and mail posts and boxes are shipped, signaling improved mail service post free delivery.
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Gaffney
White Way
Board of Public Works
Limestone Street
Segregated Prisoners Adopted by Lexington Chain Gang
Charles J. Corley, supervisor of Lexington county, introduces a system to segregate prisoners on county roads into two squads, one for white convicts and one for negroes, a move echoed by state official Albert D. Oliphant during his Lexington inspection of the chain gangs jail and alms house.
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Lexington
Charles J. Corley
Corley
Albert D. Oliphant
State Board of Charities
Fair Buildings Go Up Flornee
Work on the Florence fair buildings and grounds proceeds. The main building nears readiness and will be attractive and commodious. W P Tennant, who won the cattle pens contract, starts on sheds and corals to be used for the stock market when it opens in January. The fair runs November 17 to 20.
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Flornee
W. P. Tennant
Florence
Money lender injured after watching airship pass
George B. McLeskey, head of a money loan business, fell from the second story of a two story building and broke an arm. He was watching an airship pass over the city from the fair grounds when the accident occurred.
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Spartandore
George B. McLeskey
Fair Grounds
South Carolina Market Report Prices for Cotton and Grains
Market tables show weekly prices across South Carolina towns for cotton and grains. Entries list cotton and cotton seed values, corn, wheat, oats, rye, and peas with per bushel or per pound quotes for Allendale Ridgemand Edgefield Columbia Belton Bamberg Denmark Prosperity Yorkville Hortaville Orangeburg Chester Gray Court Fort Mill Winnsboro and others.
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South Carolina
Allendale
Columbia
Edgefield
Belton
Ile
Conwy
Bamberg
U. Denmark
Cottton
Gratitude for Freedom of Thought and Self
Barbara Ler reflects on gratitude for personal power, freedom of will, self expression, education, and social progress. She celebrates self reliance, equality, modern opportunities, and the joy and fear of life including weather, arts, and human connections.
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Mies
Barbara Ler
Harvest Thanksgiving Verse by Alice Williams Brotherton
Poem praising the Harvest Lord and the Pilgrim band with gratitude for daily bread. Authored by Alice Williams Brotherton, it extols divine guidance and communal feasting.
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Alice Williams Brotherton
Fortunate Americans Embrace Stable Goverment and Insight
The text applauds American citizens for their government, noting universal respect, high intelligence, and steady political growth. It argues citizens analyze world events, stay informed, and exercise independence, strengthening national foundations through peaceful political revolutions.
Thanksgiving Reflections on Happiness and Power
An essay encourages readers to resist the belief that wealth buys happiness. It urges taking personal initiative to find lasting joy, noting the year is brief and urging effort now to uncover happiness by the next November.
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Hfe
Admires Mr. Harkins Taste in a Quiet Compliment
Mrs. Harkins reveals a reader praised John Harkins for his good taste. He dismisses the comment as routine, then asks who spoke. She replies Mr. Hannaford told her that with each meeting he grew more convinced of Harkins’s refined taste. John walks outside to ponder.
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Turkey
Eugene Field
John
Mra. Harkins
Mrs. Harkins
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Promoted in Ad Paragraph
An advertisement touts Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root as the top kidney remedy for kidney and bladder trouble. It claims wide endorsement, lists 60c and 1.00 sizes, offers a parcel post option, and asks readers to mail ten cents for a pamphlet.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Paradoxica Output on Future and Winter Coal
A dialogue fragment features Paradoxica and Satisfaction debating the future. Satisfaction retorts with a confident line about not fearing gloom, while Paradoxica hints at a bleak outlook as winter coal is mentioned.
One Installment Is This Plane Yours
A brief humorous quip from the Boston Transcript prompts the question Is this plane yours followed by a wry reply Oh about an octave of it.
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Boston Transcript
I Do Not Think I Ever Felt Much Mra
A jumble of letters and quotes with jokes and anecdotes. A Beverly Massachusetts reader letter mix includes a woman defying wartime blackout to avoid cellars, a Peruna advertisement praising its cure, and a town council lunch quip about ham.
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Peruna
Well Named Bluster, Gale Visits to Raise the Wind
A brief item notes Gale’s arrival and mischief as the blustering figure blows through, leaving spectators amused by his windy deeds and the chatter he stirs.
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Gale
Tongue Watchman Quips on Speech and Timing
A sharp maxim notes that even the tongue kept by a man may betray him by slipping at moments, reminding readers that words can misfire under pressure and time.
Quotations and ads spoof in press page
Miscellaneous aphorisms and playful lines mingle with a brief ad request for Illustratail Book of the Eye Free from Marine Lye Khennedy Co Chicago. The snippet also notes Hanford's Balsam and a mock warning about riding a hobby in a race.
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Marine Lye Khennedy Co
Chicago
Hlustratail
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Market Report
Winnsboro
Frank Fournier
MR. Harkins
William H. Hinchliffe
Myrtle St
Beverly, Muass
London
Hanford
Rogers
Peter
Goernun
Pitt
Arbuckles
America
Wis
Sheare
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