Incident Of Other Days In Laurens Reveals Whipping Post Past
Laurens lore recalls a white man publicly whipped for stealing oats, with a courtroom ruse allowing escape. The scheme sent him away to Hart County then prospering as a respected farmer, while sheriff Oswald Richardson faced the painful duty with restrained mercy.
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Laurens
Charleston Sunday News
CDH
Court House
Laurens County
The
Mountaineer
Oswald Richardson
Rene
Say
Anderson
Farming Told on Him Exchange humor tale
An English paper recounts a farmer who returns from a rent dinner to find his wife has managed the farm in his absence. He asks about cows, horses, ducks, wood, and the wagon, and she confirms each task is done. He sighs that farming is beginning to tell on him.
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Arthur Higgleson
Lancaster Ledger
Home and Farm
Journal
Sam Jones
Walker Lewis
Harvie Jordan
John ‘Temple Graves
Mra
English Colonel Quietly Halts Regimental Gambling
An inspection of a crack rifle corps commanded by an English colonel passes without complaints and shows good order. The inspecting general warns of rumors of officer gambling, which the colonel denies saying he has already won all the ready money in the regiment and forbids gambling on credit.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Promises Quick Relief
Daily readers learn Bucklen’s Arnica Salve relieves pain from burns scalds cuts bruises and eruptions and treats ulcers fever sores eruptions and boils. It claims to cure corns warts piles and more available for 25 cents at Crawford Brow and J F Mackey Co drug stores. Subscriptions to Tos Lancaster Leverr offered at $1.50 per year.
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Bucklen
Crawford Brow
J. F. Mackey & Co
Proverbial advice and Scott's Emulsion promotion
An old dairy proverb praises a penny in the churn as a luck bringing remedy. The text promotes Scott's Emulsion, a cod liver oil preparation, claiming it strengthens weak children and is palatable, offering a free sample and listing Scott & Bowne as chemists in New York.
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Scott
Race Cups Prize Offer Sparks Quick Duel
A jeweler shows silver race cups as prizes and a stranger challenges a race, winning the cups. A shopper explains she spent only car fare, while a sheriff advertising a business draws comment. An ad claims Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic and Hall’s Catarrh Cure offer and testimonials highlight their use.
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Ficheney & C
Laye
FJ Shenry
Wrst & Truaxx
Toledo
O. Watprina
Kinnan & Marvin
Kinnan & Marvin Wholesale Druggists
Hall
Lancaster and Chester Railway Schedule 1902
Schedule notes westbound and eastbound trains in effect November 1902. Details include connections at Chester with Southern Railway No 36 to Charlotte and north, Lea pard Air Line Atlanta Special, Carolina and Northwestern No 10, Southern Railway No 38 to Columbia and south, and Seaboard Air Line Atlanta Special. No 16 at Lancaster connects with SC&GE and Raleigh lines. No 17 at Chester links with Southern Railway No 34 from Columbia and south.
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Chester
Southern Railway
Charlotte
Leapard Air Line
Atlanta
Points
Carolina and Northwestern Railway
Columbia
Point S
Seaboard Air Line
Andouthern Railway
Northern
C & GE
Blacksburg
Lancaster
Uamdeo
Marion
Points North
Jay M. Heath
Gen Pans
Agt
Leroy Springs
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Greenyville
Doctor
Despai
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Theo
Emeline
Chicago Record-Herald
Yeu
Lancaster Leverr
Chichlver
Erglish Pennyroyal
Sao
Chichester
Exgline
Fauior Hons
London Standard
Chicago Post
Ness
Philadelphia Press
Grove
Ivor
North Carolina
Charlotte Observer
Caldwell & Tomplins
J. P. Caldwell
Observer
Washington
Sunday Observer
the Observer
Charlotte, N. C
Tae
Feotein
Sam Street
Lancaster and Chester Railway
Ead of
Ord
Crawford Bros
Paris
Crawford
Lancaster County
Osceola
Pleasant Valley
Relair
van Wyck
Dixie
Dwight
Flatcoe Church
Mdr. G
Youker
Agenty Lancaster
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