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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1904
Page
2
The Greenville Mountaineer editorial argues that lynching is always wrong and undermines civil order. It denounces demagogues who justify mob violence, notes lynching harms society, and insists rightful justice must prevail over vigilante action.
The Peoples Oil and Fertilizer Company of Anderson contracts for a giant ginnery to be east of the Mississippi, 16 70-saw engines, four presses under one roof making it among the world’s largest. Also reports of a tragedy in Union where Loomis Gilliam killed Sang Jeter accidentally with an unloaded pistol. Greenville man injures wife and infant while handling a gun. child feet and mother slightly hurt. Northwestern residents suffer snow ice floods, while Savannah Press notes southern warmth. Branchville Methodists plan a new brick church.
A Charleston and statewide notice cites Sections 566 to 569 of the dispensary law, detailing forms, age and habit checks, and penalties. The board directs the clerk to send copies to every dispenser and enforce strict compliance, signaling possible tightening of whiskey sales rules across South Carolina.
Newark dispatch reports Parker leads in Democratic primaries with 228 delegates counted, giving him a large working majority for the national convention. The Herald notes New York’s delegation will be instructed for Parker. In South Dakota, the state convention pledges to Hearst, likely led by former Senator Pettigrew, to secure an instructed delegation to St Louis.
A Maine dispatch notes a seismic event near Bald Mountain in the Tiblique region, four miles from the New Brunswick line, with the mountain disappearing and a new lake forming in its place. Also reported is Bryan’s defeat in the Bennett will case, where sealed letters were not admitted. The Philadelphia Inquirer cites a “gentlemen’s agreement” among cotton traders and Lancashire mills suffer a $750,000 weekly loss due to reduced output.
The notice urges ladies to await the new spring hats and bonnets in up-to-date styles. Miss Julia Simpson, an experienced milliner, studied recent fashions this season. The front half of the furniture room is being fitted for the millinery department, opening on the 31st instant.
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