Roads and sport and taxes in a windswept opinion
An editorial piece discusses road longevity cost versus bonds, high school sports as a draw, banking and business debt, advertising for merchants, and the role of women in Dillon county papers. It weighs gasoline and cotton taxes, and references a libel dispute between Senator Smith and Col Hester over cotton estimates, hoping for court action to resolve the claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon County
Senator Smith
Col. Hester
New Orleans
Col Hester
Smith
Senate
Cotton statistics in court room debate on production data
Discussion on who pays for labor and other details behind cotton production figures. Producers complain about gathering methods and fear unreliable data, urging a full court airing to restore confidence in figures issued over time. The issue remains important and unresolved.
Britain Presses Costa Rica Debt With Threat of Force
Washington reports Britain demands immediate payment of a debt owed by Costa Rica and threatens military action. Britain also pursues claims against El Salvador, fed by British bondholders. The issue touches Lloyd George and ties to Tinoco era oil and cocoanut concessions, risking Monroe Doctrine conflict and U S resistance.
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Washington
United States
Costa Rica
Salvador
Lloyd George
Costa J Rica
Tinoco
Amoy
Lord Cowdray
United Si
State Department
Japanese Warship on Secret Mission Reported in San Francisco
A report from San Francisco cites secret surveys of Pacific harbors by visiting Japanese warships. Governor Jocelyn Robert of Tahiti arrived on a liner en route to France for consultation. His successor M. Guedes had not yet reached Tahiti when he departed.
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San Francisco
Pacific
Jocelyn Robert
Tahiti
South Seas
France
M. Guedes
Like Enoch Arden and a Georgia homecoming mystery
In LaFayette Georgia on February 23 Fred Williams who left for war in 1917 is said to return to find his body buried locally and his war policy paid his widow remarried. Grace Roberts received a New York telegram from her first husband claiming to be returning soon. The War Department had reported Williams killed in action, leaving a widow and later her remarriage to a former sweetheart Joseph Robertson.
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LaFayette
Fred Willams
Grace C. Roberts
New York
War Department
Williams
Fragee
Joseph Robertson
North Carolina Tops Nation in Birth Rate 1920
Raleigh reports NC led the U S in births for 1920 with 83 966 births at a rate of 32 8 per thousand while deaths totaled 33 228 at 12 9 per thousand Stillbirths reached 4 171 and the period saw births roughly every six minutes and deaths every fifteen minutes, explaining population growth despite limited immigration.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
United States
Union
State Board of Health
Gude's Pepto-Mangan Promotion and South Carolina Charter Notice
An old advertisement urges taking Gude's Pepto-Mangan as a spring blood tonic from druggists in tablet or liquid form. A separate notice states that Blum & Kornblut Inc. will apply for a South Carolina charter on February 28, 1921, to operate a general wholesale and retail mercantile business in Dillon with $75 million capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gude
South Carolina
Secretary of State of
Blum & Kornblut, (Inc
Dillon, S. C
Blum & Kornblut S
Dillon County Court Opens Spring Term March 21 1921
Notice states the Spring Term of the Dillon County Court of Common Pleas begins at 10:00 A.M. on Monday March 21 1921. The public session will be held in the county courthouse.
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Court of Common
Dillon County
Spring Fever Alarm Urges Gude’s Pepto-Mangan Aid
SAM McLAURIN of C C Dillon Co. urges help for spring fatigue. The message says the blood needs Gude's Pepto-Mangan in springtime to overcome drowsy, listless feelings titled Our Blood. The item reads like a promotional or notice piece from the era.
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Gude
Springtime Blood Tonic Promoted In Local Ad
An advertisement extols Gude's Pepto Mangan as a spring blood tonic that improves red blood cells, boosts oxygen delivery, and eases spring fatigue. It claims visible changes in a few days and says it restores color to pale faces. Also notes a beauty parlor opening and a lost item notice for keys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gude
For Sale Velvet Beans and Other Beans
Ninety Day Velvet beans in 2 1 3 bushel bags offered at 1.50 per bushel f. o. b. Latta South Carolina. Ocella and Bunch beans priced at 2.25 per bushel f. o. b. Latta, S.C. R. J. Dew lists items. 3 2t.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Latta
S. C. Ocella
C. R. J. Dew
Classified notices and ads mix for hosiery work and poultry
Wanted workers to take orders for hosiery with pay of 75 cents an hour or 36 dollars weekly. experience unnecessary. For sale eggs from Barred Rock chickens. 2.50 per 15 eggs. White Orpington eggs for hatching Kellerstrain 1.50 per 15. Monuments by Lumberton Marble Works. Setting Rhode Island Reds eggs 3.00 per setting delivered.
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International Stocking Mills
Norristown
Dillon County
F. Lane
Kellerstrain
Rhode —Island
T. J. Bass
Latta
S. C
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Queen of Palmares
Louise Moore
Mary Bethe
Annie Henegan
Nell Good
Marion Harvey
Eula Braddy
Margaret Elliott
Christine Edwards
Myrtle Stubbs
Ruth Able
Nell Smith
Annie Coppedge
Helen McDowell
Jane Gibson
Doris Caldwell
Lacey Jackson
Sarah Bethea
Beulah Braddy
Marie Smith
Mildred Sellers
Miriam Moore
Leila Braddy
Allie Bradd
Annie McMillan
Edith Elliott
Lessie McQueen
Inez Patham
Margaret Bethea
Dorothy Rogers
Mary Mary Stonburner
Annie Covington
Elizabeth Braddy
Mae Berry
Louise Baker
Teressa Dew
Gertrude Manning
Garey Evans
Delle, Bethea
Etta Sellers
Flora Belle McLeod
Agnes Davis
Sam McLaurin
C. Dillon Co
Madame Post
Julia Douglass
Dargan Street
Florence
Dillon and
Dillon
Jesse Garrell
L. Jones
Olay, Ill
Palmetto Cafe
Herald Office
Lumberton Marble Works
J. H. Floyd
Prop
Lumberton
Palmaf
Palmetto State Festival
Columbia
Dillon, 8. C
Blum & Kornblut
E. L Moore
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