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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1917
Page
4
A collection of quips and captions. The item references Cain and Abel, Diogenes, Abe Martin, a poet in Aiken, a Greenville barber, New York politics, Billy Sunday in Atlanta, Santa Claus with a gun, and W. J. Bryan fleeing a bull. The tone is satirical and scattered across multiple topics.
The Pickens Sentinel urges subscribers to support the county paper as postal rates rise and profits flow to the treasury. It argues the post office should serve the people cheaply, while urging citizens to stay informed on Pickens county happenings and local soldiers.
Oolenoy reports a Six Mile Baptist Academy picnic at Table Rock with many visitors and locals attending. The column lists residents and guests, including Pearl Sutherland Agnes Edens Mae Jones and families, and notes Camp Sevier visitors and illness and social visits. The piece captures community life and small anecdotes from Pickens County.
An automobile arrived in Pickens last week and drew local interest as residents continued active daily routines amid ongoing events.
A reflective poem about trading conscience for worldly needs and regaining it in the end. The speaker laments selling moral guidance for food and clothing, then redeems the conscience as peace and joy return, declaring the world’s gold unworthy. The piece closes with a Christmas note and a Spartanburg Journal tease.
Ex priest and ex nun from Lake Mills Wisconsin Mr and Mrs P A Seguin will lecture on Popery and the Ninery at the Court House in Pickens beginning Monday November 19 with two lectures daily for three days First lectures are free After that a small fee to cover expenses The Seguins claim long experience with Romanism and have published works including The Eye Opener Out of Hell and Purgatory and The Confessional Unmasked The event is under the Patriotic Knights of American Liberty R S Saunders.
The Pickens Sentinel notes Charleston papers talk of hops at the Isle of Palms that are said to be non intoxicating. It jokes editor Ticott has become a father and quips that Pickens is the land of the midnight son. Subscription offer appears.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy for catarrhal deafness. Claims the disease stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and that only a blood-borne treatment can reach it. Offers $100 for any case not cured and provides free circulars from J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
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