Lexington Dispatch News War-Time Local Notices 1919
The Lexington Dispatch News issue from November 26 1919 is an official county weekly publication. It lists editors Sligh and Walker and associates editor GM Barman. It provides mailing details subscription price and payment terms for readers in Lexington South Carolina.
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Sligh & Walker
Lexington
S.C
GM. Barman
Postoffice
Lexington, S. C
Dispatch News
Lexington, S.C
Thanksgiving Day Reflections On Harvest And Gratitude
A historic note stresses Thanksgiving as a harvest festival rooted in early settler custom. It highlights abundant harvests and opportunities for work, urging reverence and appreciation for blessings and mercies from the Giver of All Good Gifts this year.
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America
Road meeting on December 1 to plan county roads
Citizens of Bexington County are urged to attend the open road meeting at the courthouse next Monday December 1. The county legislative delegation seeks public input on a workable capital plan for road improvements with Senator Ridgell outlining ideas but inviting better proposals from Lexington County’s assembly members and residents.
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Bexington County
Court House
Ridgell
General Assembly
Lexington County
The League of Nations and US Isolation
Editorial argues the Senate failure to ratify the peace treaty leaves the United States in dangerous isolation. It condemns anti League sentiment in the Democratic South and stresses the need for international cooperation to prevent future wars and avoid entanglements that could draw the nation into European quarrels.
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Senate
United States
South
Carolin
League of Nations
Europe
Thanksgiving Sugar Offer at Rexall One Cent Sale
The Rexall store advertises a limited Thanksgiving sale offering one pound of pure simulated sugar to the first hundred customers who spend one dollar during November 27 28 and 29. The goal is to supply sugar for Thanksgiving meals with a two day sale lasting Thursday through Saturday.
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Rexall
Enjpad
Norrow
Ely Ad
Alliance shifts threaten world balance in coming years
The piece speculates on radical changes to world alliances, noting Japan hints at a German-Russo-Japanese entente, Italy unfriendly to the United States, and Mexico posing a hostile stance. It argues a Republican victory costs the nation, fears Senate's failure to ratify peace, and predicts a 1920 election backlash against the League Covenant, warning of an armed world if repudiated.
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Japan
Italy
United States
Mexico
America
Senate
The Road Tax Explains Higher Local Levy
The 1920 capitation road tax is five dollars for able bodied men aged 21 to 45, higher than prior years, but lower than 1918. Funds go to the township tax, with limited road improvements expected as labor costs rise from a dollar to three dollars a day.
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General Assembly
Trouble With Mexico and the US Stance in 1914 Tone
A sharp note from the United States toward Mexico under Venustiano Carranza is discussed, arguing patience may end and warning that overt action could lead to occupation. The piece contemplates ousting Carranza, seizing the capital, and the risks of prolonged delay, signaling fear of foreign entanglement and calls for peace.
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Unitéd ‘States
Mexico
Cartanza
Wilson
Carranza
Rexall guarantee and land sale notices in Lexington district
The page includes The Rexall Store advertising a money back guarantee and a three day Big One Cent Sale at Harmon Drug Co. It also lists a public auction notice for 240 acres in Lexington County Hollo Creek township known as Levi Nichols place with terms cash and a division into three tracts, plus multiple summonses and legal notices from Lexington County Court of Common Pleas involving plaintiffs Thomas Thompson Isabella Spann and others against defendants including Christine Williams and Henry Kinard, dated 1919 and 1938.
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Rexall
United Drug Company
Harmon Drug CO
Court House
Lexington
Lexington County
Hollow Creek Township
Levi Nichols
Oxner Bros
Stanmore Nichols
Robt. Fortner
Godfrey Jacob Lindler
Freddie Lee Lindler
Carrie Pearl Lindler
Claude Kellar Lindler
State of
South Carolina
County of Lexington
Court of Common Pleas
Thomas Thompson
Isabella Spann
Louisa Williams
Henry Bowman
William Bowman
James Thompson
Wilky Thompson
Christine Williams
James Corley
Ernest Corley
Hattie Corley
Susié Kinard
Henry Kinard
John Davis
C. M. Efird
Ernest, Corley
Susie Inard
Baird & Ea Vnal
Pine
Qt Septemiver
George S. Crafts
Esquire
Henry W. Davis
Ella B. Davis
C. H
S. C
GEO
Lexington Co
D. Ed. Shealy
Andrew I. Shealy
Amick’s Ferry
County of
John Long
John Leaphart
Haskell Shull
Rufus Hyler
Cyrus L. Shealy
Attorney
Thanksgiving Post Cards at Harmon Drug Co
Beautiful high grade Thanksgiving post cards on display at Harmon Drug Co. Wide selection with hundreds of designs offered at popular prices.
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Harmon Drug CO
Auction sale of land near Lexington on Dec 1
Auction notices describe sale of 70 acres known as the Al Meetze place one and a half miles from Lexington including 50 acres cultivated rest in woods with a good barn water. Another sale invites bids on 39 acres in Boiling Springs Township in Lexington County joining various neighbors and tracing to Minnie E Dooley. Also a job ad seeks white women 18 to 35 for Bright Girls at the State Hospital in Columbia. Lost item notes automobile number between L W Harman's and Lexington.
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Court House
Lexington
al. Meetze Place
R. J. Hook. Jup
State of
South Carolina
County of Lexington
Boiling Springs Township
County of
Frederick Shealy
John F. Rish
H. Z. Ricard
State Hospital For the Insane
Columbia
S. C
Chapin
Red Bank
D. E. Amick
D. C
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Nmn Navy
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Gilbert
Karl F. Oswald
Shull Place
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F. K. Roof
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Navy
L. W. Harmon
Clay
Swansea
Tom Williams
Bank of Swansea
J. Gordon Culler
Swasea, &. C
Farrow
T. D. Mitchell
New Brookland
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Duroc Jersey
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Irma
B. H. Seay
Duroc-Jersey
C. A. Wingard, Chapin, Ss. Q
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Temple St
Los Angeles
Cal
Rock Hill
G. M. Harman
Enterprise Hardware Co. Ip
James Caughman
Lexington Rt
Jaxington
Augusta Highw
D. Martin
Starkie
Sam I. Lever
Augie
Wingo
J. Warman
Amanda J. Harman
D. H
J. E. Rawl Kyzer
Uf. H. Cromer Oswald
Sim J. Miller
Sheriff
FP. Y. Weed
Sallie M, Weed
Calhoun
T. B. Crider
Calhoun County
TB. Crider
Crider
James Pickett
Pickett
Andes Perquiry
Henry B Taylor
Noa
Ip Taylor
Verek
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Piedmont Highway
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G. M. Bodand
Do Gibbes Machinery Co
Oohuaebia
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