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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1922
Page
3
An old style product pitch urges mothers to use California Fig Syrup to relieve constipation in children. It claims a spoonful can prevent illness, lists symptoms like biliousness and colic, and directs asking a druggist for genuine California Pie Syrup with bottle directions.
A brief dialogue features a girl remarking on her doll’s minimal clothes and a gentleman calling it a flapper doll, highlighting a playful exchange in period flavor.
South Carolina distributed 1 350 063 0 to 46 counties for the 12 months ending June 30 1922. State Superintendent John J Swearingen noted the funds covered eleven legislature provided items plus federal Smith Hughes vocational aid with pro rata distribution across counties due to shortfalls in four areas. County payments listed include Abbeville 16971 Aiken 21432 50 Anderson 56939 20 Bamberg 10129 and others totaling the stated sum.
State highway department will oil and tar sand clay and top soil roads in Spartanburg and Lexington counties within days. Oil has been tried in Greenwood with partial success and further tests will compare benefits on dirt highways.
Governor Harvey and North Carolina visitors inspect the state peniten tiary to study a shirt or garment plant that would employ inmates and teach trade, with the Sterling Taradash Co providing equipment. The plan aims to use prison labor, pay prisoners, and reduce chain gang abuses while expanding industry at the prison.
Rescue teams work amid wreckage as hundreds are killed and wounded after a massive explosion at Falconara fort near Spezia Italy. Officials fear 144 dead with many still trapped and hospitals overwhelmed.
American education week is set for December 3 to inclusive, announced by Garland W Powell assistant national director of Americanism for the American Legion which started the movement last year with cooperation from the United States bureau of Education and the National Education association. The announcement followed a conference between President Harding Powell and John J Tigert US commissioner of education.
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