Comparative state property valuations show net rise in 1903
Columbia reports Comptroller General Jones released a comparative statement of assessed property values for 1903 versus 1902. Real estate outside towns declined due to auditors misplacing county property in cities. totals show increases in city real estate, railroad and personal property, and a net rise of 2,984,094 across all categories.
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Columbia
Jones
Southern Express Co
Pullman Palace Car Co
Coughs Cold and Constipation Alert From Local Doctor
T Eugene Funderburk cautions that many cough remedies beyond Foley's Honey and Tar contain opiates causing constipation and safety concerns for children. He notes Foley's Honey and Tar has no opiates and is safer and non constipating.
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Foley
T. Eugene Funderburk
T. Eugene Fanderburk
Monument for General Morgan Proposed at Cowpens Site
Washington correspondent reports Representative Finley has introduced a bill to appropriate 25000 dollars for a monument to General Morgan at the Cowpens battlefield in Cherokee County South Carolina and to the participants in the battle per Yorkville Enquirer.
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Washington
The
Greenville News
Finley
General Morgan
Cowpens Battle Ground
Cherokee County
S. C
Yorkville Enquirer
Christmas Eve Drunkenness Absent in Monroe Says Enquirer
A Monroe Enquirer item notes no arrests on Christmas Eve, praising orderly crowds and sober conduct. It contrasts with last year when many spent money on liquor and disorder followed by drunks returning home. The piece endorses prohibition as a good thing while recommending Fo Leys Honey and Tar as a throat remedy.
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Monroe
Mosroe Enquirer
Appalling B L and O Railroad Disaster Near Laurel Run
Rescue work continued after the Baltimore and Ohio wreck at Laurel Run near Dawson. Reports raise deaths to sixty eight with over seventy five injured, many mortally. The Duxierne limited, filled with Christmas shoppers, plunged from sixty mph into lumber, killing and injuring many as it carried homebound travelers from Pittsburgh to New York.
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Comnellavillo
Baltimore and Ohio
Laurel Run
Dawson
Duxierne Limited
Baltimore &Ohio Railroad
Pittsburg
New York
International Cotton Gambling Condemned at Manchester Meeting
At a crowded cotton trade meeting in Manchester on December 29, delegates condemned international cotton gambling as injuring trade causing losses and unemployment. W Macara urged government action and a deputation to press measures to curb gambling and prevent further abuses while advocating a global cooperative approach to reduce consumption.
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Manchester
Eog
Wourld
High Cotton Price Forc es Mill Shutdown In Philadelphia
Philadelphia on December 29 reports 4000 textile workers, including women and children, laid off indefinitely due to high cotton costs. Mills idle since Christmas amid repairs. Warns that Watts law could drive the criminal side of the Superior court from business. judges face job risks as terms shrink to two days. Vanderbilt buys 154 acres in North Carolina for 15750 dollars. Turkey apologizes for Alexandretta incident. warship withdrawn.
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Philadelphia
Watts
Superior Court
Gastonia
Barnard Shipp Grows Virginia Library to $100,000
Barnard Shipp of Louisville Kentucky, a literary recluse, has expanded his personal collection at the University of Virginia library to a value of one hundred thousand dollars.
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Barnard Shipp
L Ky
University of Virginia Hia
Notice to Pensioners at Court House Each Saturday in January 1904
W B Bruce pension commissioner announces pensioners meeting at the court house every Saturday in January 1904 to hear new applicants and to prepare pension papers for the county pension board.
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Court House
County Pension Board
W. B. Bruce
Pen
Com
L. C
Notice to Trespassers in Indian Land and Waxhaw Townships
Notice forbids hunting shooting riding driving walking timber cutting or felling fences allowing dogs bogs stock or cattle to run at large and trespassing on lands owned or controlled by ua in Indian Land and Waxhaw Townships and fishing streams. Penalty of law begins December 15 1903 signed by Douglas Nisbet J M Nisbet and E W Nisbet
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Indian Land
Waxhaw
Pay Your Subscription to the Lepoer
A brief public notice urges readers to pay their subscription to the Lepoer, highlighting continued service and reader duties. No additional details or context are provided in the fragment.
Happenings In The State Negro killed by skyrocket mishap
Newberry on Christmas night a 16 year old Negro, Sam Agnew, was struck by a skyrocket on Main Street and died instantly. The accident halted festivities as crowds paused to reflect on the tragedy.
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Newberry
Sam Agnew
Yorkville
Jas. Campbell
Ebenezer Township
Cephas Williams
Will Knox
Williams
Sandifer
Knox
Patcomronse
Bishopville
Dez
Deas
Folsom
Skinner
Conder
Thorsday Sight
Fairfax
Lidia Young
Wash
Bryan
Frank Roberts
Horace Walker
Spartanburg
Gus Hammett
Frank Morrell
W. H. Morrell
Wellford
Hammett
Morrell
Electric Bitters Promise Quick Health Renewal
Revolution imminent says the ad, touting Electric Bitters to restore nervousness sleeplessness stomach issues kidney and bowel regulation and blood cleansing. The product, offered at 50 cents, comes with a satisfaction guarantee by Crawford Bros J F Mackey & Co and T Eugene Funderburk, Druggist.
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Crawford Bros
J. F. Mackey & Co
T. Eugene Funderburk
Foley's Money and Tar Picked by Reform School
J G Gluck superintendent at Pruntytown West Virginia Reform School states after testing various advertised cough medicines Foley's Money and Tar is chosen as the most effective and absolutely harmless option. T Eugene Funderburk noted the endorsement for the reform institution.
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J. G. Gluck
Pruntytown
W. Va
Foley
West Virginia Reform School
Eugene Funderburk
Rutledge Dentist Notices Call and Settle Debts
All persons indebted to me are requested to call at once and settle. J. KE. Rutledge, Dentist.
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J. KE. Rutledge
Iroquois Theatre Fire Toll in Chicago Disaster
Chicago authorities recount about 550 to 686 deaths from the Iroquois Theatre fire. In the panic many were trampled or burned. discussions over origin point to an electric wire near scenery and a failing asbestos curtain. Eddie Foy helped trigger the curtain drop as flames surged toward exits.
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Chicago
Ketimaton
Gary
Eddie Foy
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the International Cotton Gambling
Vanderbilt
North Carolina
Turkey
United States
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Alexandretta
A Douglas Nisbet
J. M. Nisbet
E. W. Nisbet
Virginie-Carolina Chemical Coy
Charleston
Columbia State
Fort Mill
Catawba Power Company
Rock Hill
Focal Mills
Lee Southt
John Dens
Prince Benjamin
Deus
Benjamin
Charlotte
N. C
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Reform School
Chicago Theatre
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