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The Lancaster Ledger

Location

Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Jan 06, 1900

Page

3

Local Cotton Market and Social News Highlight Lancaster

Cotton sold at 74 cents on the market. Social notices include marriages at the cotton mill and between De Sistare and Hassie Culp. Local figures Owen, Horn of Texas, and visits by Lindsay, Carnes, and Clemson, with town improvements like a shingle machine by Mr Hare. County educators push for full-year schools led by Pleasant Valley Academy and Prof Shurley, with Miss Rena Harris hired as assistant.

Rey S N Watson de Sistare Hassie Culp Potts Hall Pleasant Hill Methodist Church Pleasant Valley Jobe K Hall Maud Potts Dallas O Potts Estelle Doster RA Yongue Walter Hall Wrennie Harris Walter Potts Mikes Bessie Wolfe Thomas Culp Ethel Ross Lancaster County Lancaster Pleasant Valley Academy Shurley Rena Harris Tabernacle Oakhurst Jones Roads

Secretary Hay reports open door policy gains with China

Secretary of State Hay announced to the cabinet that negotiations with Great Britain Germany France Russia and Japan toward a common open door understanding in China have been very successful. Italy’s response is still awaited, with a favorable answer expected. The statement aligns with AP dispatches and pleases the President and cabinet by promising the US a full role in China’s future commerce.

Washington Hay Europe Japan China Great Britain Germany France Russia Italy Associated Press United States

Aunty Polly Jordan Restored Sight at 107 in Georgia

Fort Valley Georgia reports that Polly Jordan a elderly African American woman aged 107 has regained both sight and hearing after years of blindness deafness and mental decline. Authorities say her mental balance is now fully restored and she lives about two miles from Fort Valley.

Polly Fort Valley, Ga Polly Jordan

New Orleans Cotton Trade Report For Four Months

Secretary Hester of the New Orleans cotton exchange releases a statement showing sight cotton for September through December at 5,591,076 bales, down from 7,725,549 last year and 7,296,533 the year before. Foreign exports for the first four months total 9,568,435 bales, down 1,616,197 from last season. Southern interior markets close December 1 days show 1,898,038 versus 2,059,361 a year ago.

New Orleans Hester Sealord

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