22 Dec 1900
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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1900
Page
1
The Ash Store promotes a busy scene with bold claims of great bargains on dress fabrics, wares, and ready made garments. It highlights Latin Berbers, Percal Flannel, and various patterns with substantial discounts as crowds flock to the shop while stock runs low and new items arrive.
Fragmentary notice notes another batch of sample Pi and shirts arriving quickly. No further details available beyond urging prompt comes and implying stock ready for sale.
A report from Columbia notes a gang of safe blowers operating in the state with several robberies, including Dicks & Salley’s safe loss of about $5,006. The article also records the death of Mrs A T Jamson, wife of the Connie Maxwell Orphanage superintendent, from nervous prostration, and mentions deaths and local events across Mississippi and Louisiana. It includes police notes, cattle and deer hunts, and a brief on Omaha child kidnapping case involving Edward Cudahy Jr., with police and detective mobilization and a ransom threat. The piece blends crime, civic notices, and social updates from New Orleans, Darlington, and regional areas.
A shooter named Saul Petersiinnge of Waybee and Richard He Therris killed William F Mallory on Bale Inghouk Street years ago. Mallory fell, Petersiinnge said he shot in self defense after being dragged into trouble by a friend. Police reported the incident occurred over a pane of cards and the shooter was killed on the spot by an officer.
A lost paragraph warns that worry and nervous energy age the skin and ruin appearance. It claims facial lines multiply with stress, that lotions and creams repair nothing, and that avoiding worry preserves youth. It argues against time worn by virtue of calm, urging readers to value youth and beauty as the supreme gifts.
An old advertisement extols Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a grand cure for skin eruptions ulcers corns wounds chapped hands and piles. It claims rapid relief and total cure with a 95 cent box, sold by Crawford druggists.
Wanted an active man of good character to deliver and collect for a South Carolina wholesale house. Four year with steady pay. Higher pay if experience. Our reference any bank in any city. Enclose stamped addressed envelope. Manufacturers, Third Floor, 334 Dearborn St, Chicago.
To The Deaf a cvich lady cured of her Deaf ness and Noises in the Head by Dr Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums ware $10,000 to his Institute so that deaf people unable to procure the Bar Drums may have them free Address No 11967 The Nicholson Institute 750 Eighh Avenue New York USA 6m your subscription to The Ledger.
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