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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1903
Page
7
A well dressed man questions why silver cups on the counter are race prizes. A stranger challenges him to bet on one. The cup goes to the winner as the jeweler and others react.
The text references a patent medicine claim about Hall's Pills and warnings, mentioning prices and sales through druggists. It cites a 15 year period and “Pestimonials tree” while asserting internal effects on blood and mucous surfaces.
A Laurens correspondent recalls a fifties case where a young lawyer helped a white man avoid public whipping for stealing oats. A plan led the convict to flee south to cross the Savannah River, but he instead walked to jail after a staged chase. The event ended with the man later prospering elsewhere, while the sheriff faced no further punishment.
A narrative recounts a strong athletic man who left Laurene for Hart County Georgia after bidding farewell to relatives. He prospered, earned neighbor respect, and later reappeared in Anderson as a prominent merchant with successful wagon sales. The tale hints at shared recognition amid past sorrow.
A romantic tale from the Chicago Record Herald about Emeline who vows never to marry a doctor or preacher. At a railway station she discovers Arthur Higgleson is a doctor, feared to marry a professional man, and contemplates love as the couple face societal prejudice.
A story tells of an ish colonel who commanded a crack rifle corps. The inspection found no complaints and the regiment seemed in good order. The general warned of rumors of extensive gambling among officers, which the colonel denied claiming he had won all the ready money and banned gambling on credit.
A weary farmer returns home to a wife who lists his farm duties done in his absence. He frets the effort has worn him out as she confirms cows in barn horses fed fowls secured wood chopped ducks dressed and wagon wheel mended. He sighs and asks for supper and rest noting farming is beginning to tell on him.
Daily health aid claims to ease burns scalds cuts bruises ulcers fever sores eruptions salt rheum and felons. Advertises 25 cents at Crawford Bros J F Nackey Co drug stores with subscription offer to Lancaster Germany at 1.50 per year.
An old time proverb suggests a penny in the churn to coax butter and a remedy urges Scott's Emulsion for weak or pale children. It promotes cod liver oil with hypophosphites, claims natural tasting to children, and offers a sample and bottle sizes with Scott & Rowne chemists in New York.
Lancaster and Chester Railway timetable shows No 14 westbound from Lancaster leaving 6 45 am and No 16 eastbound from Lancaster 5 15 pm with connections at Chester to Southern Railway routes to Charlotte Columbia and Camden and to Atlanta Special lines. Officials JAS M Hepa and Leroy Springs noted.
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