05 Dec 1900
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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1900
Page
1
The store promotes new fashion lines with plain soft fabrics and Berber patterns at affordable prices. Highlights include wool suits, linen pants, and lawn fabrics, with eager praise for designer work by Mina Wadsley of Baltimore and strong stock rushes as items sell quickly.
In Goldsboro on December 2 a fire started when green wood placed on a heater ignited and fell to the floor. The pet dog began barking, waking the family and enabling them to extinguish the blaze before serious damage occurred.
General McArthur confirms the hangings of four natives condemned for murder as members of the Guardia de Ponor. They will die December 2 at Lingayen after kidnapping and blood mayhem among victims. The report notes other wartime casualty updates and a hospital tally from Manila disaster coverage.
A distressed mother pleads for help for her starving baby, noting hollow cheeks and fading strength. She seeks Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil as the only fat source that might save the child, urging quick action and offering the product details for purchase.
Old established manufacturers wholesale house seeks an active man of good character to deliver and collect in South Carolina. Earn $9 a year, sure pay. Honesty preferred to experience. Reference from any bank in any city. Enclose self addressed stamped envelope. Manufacturers, Third Floor, 334 Dearborn St, Chicago.
The article notes the U S Treasury holds the largest stock of gold coins and bullion ever, about $474 108 000 by November, with steady yearly growth and strong imports from the Klondike and other regions. It discusses gold certificates, shipments to New Orleans, and reserve shifts as paper money rises in use, projecting a year end gold total near $1.1 billion.
A column recalls famous figures and their unrealized dreams from Howard Pyle to Dewey, followed by an anecdote about William Mann and his wife’s recovery using Electric Bitters. Florence county finances are reported as debt free with taxes to fund next year’s purchases.
Mrs. M 4 Moore of Yalowbuaha County Mississippi writes August 12 to Oakland Gin Co about misbaling and price expectations. She notes her two plantations yield about 100 bales yearly and that round lap bales fetched higher value than square bales from her crops tied to the same buyers.
A terse notice describes a poison scare sweeping Manchester and Liverpool, with many glucose-fed brewers found to contain arsenic. It notes about a thousand patients and nearly 70 deaths from a bad glycone batch, while London remains unaffected. A public analyst hints the Maverick case mystery could have been solved if arsenic facts were known earlier.
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