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The Lancaster Ledger

Location

Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Feb 27, 1904

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Rail timetable for southern connections and fares

Daily schedule shows routes from Gastonia to Atlanta and Charlotte with stops including Yorkville Columbia Chester Richburg Lancaster Fort Lawn and Bassomville. Fares listed 49 and 55 cents with multiple departure times. directed by AP McLURE Superintendent and Leroy Springs President. Pay your subscription to the Ledger and be happy.

Lenir C&n Gastonia Yorkville Atlanta Sal Columbia Charlotte Lancaster—Southern Railway AP McLure Leroy Springs

New Laws Add Mass of Statutory Changes

A legislative session adjourned last Saturday adding about two hundred laws. Highlights include biennial general assembly sessions, free baggage transport for common carriers, fencing abandoned wells, penalties for safe crackers, local road laws, electric lighting rights, exemptions for soldiers, municipal debt limits, shad shipping ban, magistrate deposits, industrial community constables, additional Lancaster magistrate, honoring land for U.S. public use, battlefield monument repairs, rural school libraries, electric theft prohibition, county bond refunding, freight delay prevention, dispensary voting, foreign corporation formation, annual license fees, Winthrop scholarships, railroad-telephone fines, county supervisor salaries, cottonseed meal inspection, education code tweaks, charter permanence, university leases, mileage tickets for families, federal building lands cession, pension funds for firefighters, gambling-dense warrants, incendiary fire investigations, and a general appropriation bill.

Warren General Assembly Lanham Richardson Wright DeBruhl Wlu Haile Tribbls Williams Lancaster County Uhird United States Chicka— Manga D. O. Herbert Lancaster Cheraw and Chester Rairoad Coggeshall Brice DeBrub Moses

Saved from terrible death by Dr King’s New Discovery

Mrs M L Bob of Bargerton Tenn narrowly escaped death from consumption after doctors failed. The family credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with immediate relief and ultimate recovery. Guaranteed bottles 50 cents and 1.00, trial bottle free at Crawford Bros Mackay Co T E Funderburk Drug Store.

Crawford Bros Mackay & Co T. Eune Funderburk Drug Store

Merchants and Farmers National Bank Breaks Record

The Merchants and Farmers National Bank of this city broke its record last Saturday by receiving deposits that totaled over a million dollars. The institution is described as flourishing and continuing to grow in prosperity.

Merchants & Farmers National Bank Charlotte Observer

First Russian Victory at Port Arthur

Telegram from St Petersburg reports a Russian success as Retvizan engaged Japanese torpedo boats near Port Arthur on February 24. Russian fire destroyed two enemy steamers, with four more sinking or burning, while Japanese vessels suffered drownings and retreated under coastal batteries.

St. Petersbarg Alexietf Tiger Peninsula Golden Hill Retvizun Port Arthur Tam London St. Petersburg Paris Chamber of Deputies Senate

Sensation in Kentucky Court Over Perjury Guilty Plea

A. C. Adams pleaded guilty to perjury in Cynthian Kentucky and received the minimum one year sentence. He testified for the defense at the trial of Curtis Jett and Thoms White who were convicted of killing Jud Be Marcam and James Cockrill at Jackson. Adams cited fear of retaliation in Breathitt County as motive for his false testimony.

Breathitt County Jakson Webster

Wonderful Nerve Salve Promises Pain Relief

An advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the cure for cuts, wounds, burns, bruises, sore feet, stiff joints, and piles. Sold at Crawford Bros, J F Key Co, and T Eugene's Drugist. M Kunderb

Bucklen Crawford Bros J. F. Key & Co’s T. Eugenes M Kunderb

Japanese Officers Hanged in Manchuria Plot

In Manchuria Russian authorities hanged Japanese officers from a Sungart River railroad bridge girders after they were captured about to bomb the bridge. Identified were Col. Asani of the engineers and Lieuts Zonebias cha and Kacurta of the Sappers.

St. Petersburg Meb Manchuria Sungart River Col Asani Zonebiascha and Kacurta

Drunken man and companion saved after failed suicide pact

A man from Massachusetts in a Greenville vicinity attempted suicide in a drunken stupor after convincing a woman to join him. A physician’s prompt arrival saved both lives, with fears they might not have survived. The item also notes winter coughs risk consumption and promotes Foley’s Honey and Tar from T Eugene Funderburk in a town ad.

Massachusetts Foley's Soldiby T Eugene Funderbuark

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Short Yours Miles Lancaster Marble Granite Works A. J. McNi Ich Lancaster, S. C Rob, Wylie Lancaster and Chester Westboyond Liv Lancaster Fort Lawn Aville Chesterburg Kartotte Yorkv Weah Lenoir Eabtbuunl Morgan Gause Smith Secretary of State Mr. Richards Winthrop Aydrick Railroad Commissioners Raysor Harden Sinkler Sharpe Mayfield Johnson Senator Mayfield Southern Mir. Lancaster Judiciary Committee Richland York Spartansburg Georgetown Logan Bomar Mauldin Ways and Means Committee Sarratt Irby Kershaw Telog Korea Tokio Aph Re— Yin Kentucky Court Jett White Ced Greenville News T. S. Carter
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