State News on New Asylum Plant in South Carolina
Aull discusses the State Hospital commission’s work to develop a new asylum plant near Columbia. Plans include a colony system across patient groups, water supply via a deep well, and a brick plant contract with Granite Brick company. The program aims for day labor construction and expansion across multiple colonies.
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New Asylum
Newberry
Greenville
State Hospital Commission
South Carolina
Commission
Columbia
KE. H. Aull
Aull
Legislatee
LCL
P. J. C. Smith
Southern Railway
Granite Brick Company
Hyatt
Bankers Agree to Finance Abbeville Easley Railroad
Despatch reports a planned 60 mile electric road from Abbeville to Easley passing through Anderson with New York bankers ready to underwrite bonds. Patterson reports proposed route via Anderson Abbeville Pickens counties costing about 800000, local groups pledging 50000, with funds raised in Anderson and Pickens counties.
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Anderson
Abbeville
Easley
M.N. Patterson
New York
Patterson
Anderson, Abbeville & Easley
Piedmont Region
Pickens County
Pickens
Clemson Opens With Eight Hundred Cadets
The Clemson College opening reports the nineteenth session beginning at nine o clock. Attendance reaches eight hundred cadets with more enrollees expected making Clemson the largest South Carolina college. Hazing is largely abolished as every old cadet signs a pledge against hazing. campus improvements include barrack renovations new piazzas dining hall remodels and a nearly finished dairy promising a record session.
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Greenville
Clemson
Clemson College
South Carolina
Federal study to probe pellagra transmission in Spartanburg mills
The government will start a several weeks long investigation in Glendale and other mill villages of Spartanburg County to test whether pellagra is transmitted by insects. State Health Officer J Adams Hayne US Marine Hospital Service Dr S M Grimm and a federal entomologist will supervise this inquiry prompted by Congressman J T Johnston A F Lever and Dr Hayne.
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Glendale
Spartanburg
J. Adams Hayne
S. M. Grimm
United States Marine Hospital Service
Federal Department
Joseph T. Johnston
A. F. Lever
Saddest County Rabbit Hunt Accident Claims Wadley Porter
Wadley T Porter 29 died after a hunting accident near Cross Roads Baptist church when a gun discharged as he moved past A J Looper. Porter lived on Looper’s farm and was active in Baptist church work. He left a widow Miss Hopkins and three children. Funeral was held at Secona with large turnout.
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Cross Roads Baptist Church
Wadley T. Porter
A. J. Looper
Felton
Alvah Wood
Mr. Porter
Mr. Looper
Mr. Qlooper
P. A. Porter
Baptist Church
Secona
A. KE. Howard
J. M. Stewart
Hopkins
Spartanburg
Looper
Southern Cotton corporation organizes to market cotton
Macon dispatches report the formation of a 4 million dollar Southern Cotton corporation led by George Dole Wadley of Bolingbroke with John E. Wadley and John T. Moore among early officers. The group will advance farmers up to 75 percent of normal cotton value, hold deposits in warehouses, set annual prices, and operate through county advisory boards and banks led by William Barrett Ridgely. Propaganda is planned to begin immediately.
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Macon, Ga
Southern Cotton Corporation
South
George Dole Wadley
Bolingbrooke
Georgia
Mr. Wadley
Macon
Wadley
Weighing an Elephant Simple Yet Ingenious Plan
A Hindu prince named Sajee proposed a clever method to weigh an elephant. The animal was walked onto a flat bottom boat, water marks noted, then stones replaced to keep the boat at the same level, and the stones weighed to reveal the elephant’s true weight.
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India
Shajee
Archimedes
New York
Sajee
Pearidge Folks Share Local Pride and Baptism News
The Pearidge register notes a baptism at Rice Creek last Sunday and mentions Oscar Morgan constructing a fine residence. The writer brags about Pearidge, praising the town as the best part of the country and expressing affection for the community.
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Rice Creek
Oscar Morgan
Old Pearidge
The World's Largest Bakery in Essen Germany
A vast Essen bakery driven by machines bakes forty thousand pounds of bread daily using sixty ovens and two shifts. Seventy workers operate the line earning eight to ten cents an hour, with free coffee and bread, strict cleanliness, and bathing facilities. The paper aims to be a home companion, newsy and cheery for every county home.
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Essen
Prussia
Krupp
College Hill Items Highlight Local Education News
Prof W L Thompson preached at Greenville Wesleyan Church last Sunday. Prof J M Hancock made a business trip to Spartanburg. New students arrive at the W M College including Miss Bessie Pearson and others from Hickory and Was ley. State book shipments to three schools are delayed, hindering teachers. The College Industrial Association gains momentum with nearly a hundred shares sold and plans an Oct 6 formal organization. The aim remains to provide education through self help and work opportunities for students.
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W. L. Thompson
Wesleyan
Greenville
J. M. Hancock
Spartanburg
Nellie
Callie Linebarger
W. M. GC
Danville
Li, Bumparner
Hickory
N. C
Lawrence
Calhoun
Bessie Pearson
Wasley
Central Diraded
Baptist Academy Aat
Six Mile
W. M. College
Central
College Industrial Association
D. M. Hancock
Watudent
Industrial Association
Marriage of Darby Long at Sandy Springs
At the home of George W. Darby in Sandy Springs Mississippi Miss Nettie May Darby wed Marcus C. Long a Valhalla lawyer and former district court stenographer. Long known in Anderson, Darby aided clerk of court records last winter and they will reside in Valhalla.
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George W. Darby
Sandy Springs
Nettie May Darby
Marcus CO. Long
Long
Anderson
Miss Darby
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State News
J. W. Babcock
Mynor
Pearidge
The
Sentinel
College Hill
Darby- Long
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