Local musings mix satire with war talk and odd ads
A fragmented column cites North Carolina politics and Sherman era chatter while lampooning “patriotic” meetings in Pickens County. It critiques endless advice to soldiers and parents and mocks fashion complaints and a silver price note. The piece also congratulates J DeCamp on the Gaffney Ledger’s twentieth birthday edition.
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Kaiser
Pickens County
J. DeCamp
Gaffney Ledger
Gary Hiclens
Carolina
Forest Free Press
Ford
Well Known Os and a Greenville Cafe Riddle
A playful jumble of names and phrases centers on a Greenville cafe scene and a riddle about a waiter carrying everything before it. The verse ends with Mary and the lamb tale and a pun on a waiter’s bill.
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Mary
Greenville
Fragmentary note from The Pickens Sentinel
An unreadable clipping quotes The Pickens Sentinel and Newberry Observe, mentioning names like Wallace and an American Invenda sechalar, but the text is garbled and unclear about any event or date. The fragment offers little verifiable detail beyond the existence of two papers and scattered references.
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Pickens Sentinel
Newberry
Sentinel
Drother Wallace
Anderson Tribune heralds independent daily paper in state
The Anderson Tribune announces a new morning daily, edited by Victor Cheshire, aligned with the Reform faction. It joins two other Reform papers and several independent weeklies, with the Sentinel praising plurality in state politics.
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Anderson Tribune
Anderson
Victor 2
Cheshire
Reformers
the Sentinel
Review of the Past Week Highlights in War News
Edward W. Pickard surveys a week of Allied warnings, Luftwaffe raids on London, and Britain planning reprisals. He notes America's war tax bill becoming law and field marshal divisions accelerating actions near Ypres and Ostend while German forces press the Belgian coast.
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London
England
America
Divi
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