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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
4
A 1918 piece lampoons wartime shortages and policies with jokes on sugar prices bread rationing meatless days and heating, noting shortages and civic duties. It mixes satire about food scarcity autocracy and democracy wartime morale and home front resilience.
The narrator contrasts varied lives in a topsy world. One man seeks justice while another flees it. A man saves for a house as a neighbor tries to sell cheap to exit debt. Another spends to woo, while a neighbor pursues divorce. One keeps a pistol, another avoids it. Some pay ahead for the paper, others read free for years.
J Cheney sworn as senior partner of F J Cheney & Co of Toledo and offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Notary A W Gleason records the oath on December 6 1886. Company advertises internal remedy and Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Light flu cases noted, cotton farming active with picking and syrup making. Valhalla mercantile plans include a new storehouse and goods for Sunset post. Petition filed to shift mail along Big Eastatoe Creek route to Sunset, aiding upper Big Creek Ready Cove Rocky Bottom and upper Eastatoe. Dr Porter and Dr Black inspected Greenville hospital, describing it as poor but under expansion to a larger facility. J R Meece returns from Transylvania NC for protracted meetings. Bruce and Carey visit on business.
Community PR guideline urging residents to promote local business beautify streets and lawfully fund permanent improvements. Encourages courtesy to strangers, investment in workers, and support for public works while avoiding gossip and local complaints about taxes.
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