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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1901
Page
3
A page of brief notices reports purchases of property and livestock, a funeral preacher, and a new artificial hand for Captain Moore. It notes marriages, political fines, and marriages, with illness and death in families. It mentions pension blanks, runaways, and a suicide at Spartanburg. The Ledger carries local ads and notices across several towns.
The Lancaster Mercantile Co advertises a large mule and horse sale near Dwight. It promises a fine farm with water, a school house, post office, and church within two miles, and invites buyers to choose from nearly 100 head on favorable terms. Mr Hood recently returned from Western markets with a premier mule lot.
A Dodgy clipping touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a miracle for piles claiming two boxes cured a lifelong affliction. It lists Crawford Bros druggist as seller. Also references sensational claims about a Greenville News prophecy and a Deafness cure by Dr Nicholson's Ear Drams with a charity offer from The Nicholson Institute.
Bamberg January 17 Robert Smalls a negro shop keeper killed Willie Carter a colored barber on Main street in a negro dive. Smalls says the pistol fired accidentally as he showed it to Carter while witnesses claim Carter accused Smalls of lying and Smalls shot him as he entered the shop. Smalls fled toward the jail his face stained with Carter's blood. A recent case at Elko saw Charlie Lang Robinson tried and acquitted for ravishing a negro woman.
The McAllister Kerr Campbell group stands charged with ragging and causing Jennie Bosschieter death. The January 14 proceedings drew large crowds with no public friends for the accused. All plead not guilty as the trial is anticipated to extend over several days.
Elegaic memorial verse mourning the death of Latte Virgiore Guitth ceding aged lamentations on missing her presence and voice. The poem recalls familial love and memory, hopes of reunion after death, and views of an eternal shore beyond earthly trials.
Fragmentary OCR fragment mentions towns Creek Marsan and Ver 37a. Names like Loreen and Preven appear amid scattered phrases. The text lacks a coherent event. reads as miscellaneous local notations with undefined roles.
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