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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1903
Page
4
In a rare move a St Louis judge refused a divorce for insufficient grounds and proposed six marital duties. The rules urge wife independence from her mother and mutual trust, with the husband as head and avoidance of jealousy and fatal thoughts. A mistaken joke aside, the piece argues for temperate approach to legal separations.
A Virginian module testifies to Dr King’s New Discovery curing bronchitis and lung troubles after three years of illness. The ad notes trial bottles, prices, and local pharmacy distributors. A separate Ohio incident recounts youths dressing a tramp in new clothes then finding $1400 hidden in his coat.
A Salem Missouri man Robert R Watts describes five years of kidney illness. He says after trying doctors and remedies he used Foley's Kidney Care and was cured in under two bottles becoming well again. T Eugene Fanderburk signs the letter.
The New York Commercial reports prices of cotton goods must rise or raw cotton prices drop. mills may curtail output and cut wages by July 1. It notes a tight supply, with 12 million bales needed and 8 to 10 cents a pound midgrade desirable, yet current trade conditions favor cotton holders over manufacturers.
A humorous fragment shows a boastful aged Scotch minister claiming two hours and twenty minutes of preaching last Sunday. A friend jokes about the congregation living off the minister's long sermon. A Kansas editor notes an odd method of cradling delinquent subscribers with health woes as signs of advancing obituaries.
Mrs SoH Newson of Decatur Alabama says three years of indigestion stomach and bowel trouble ended after trying Fleetrie Bitters. She reports rapid improvement and full recovery claiming the tonic cured her liver kidneys and stomach issues. The medicine is sold for 50 cents and guaranteed by Fundersurk Pharmacy Crawford JF Mackey Co.
Fragmentary speech notes show a reader pressing the editor as two others ahead of him in line. The terse exchange hints at a crowded newsroom or printing house flow. No further names or places are legible.
Two Albert Lea gentlemen debate the hereafter. One asks where he would go when he dies, and the other replies that wishes would choose heaven for climate and hell for company.
A court stenographer cites a peculiar contract case in which Trishman sought to sue a woman for meals owed under a contract to deduct twenty five cents from each meal. The defendant refused payment, claiming the contract bound only meals missed, not a lump sum. The lawyer notes the oddity of the dispute and that other town lawyers avoided pursuing it.
A fragment describes train connections involving Southern Railway lines, noting schedule hints for trains departing Chester and Lancaster areas, with references to connections at Lane, Columbia, and points north and south. It mentions Harotle, Bea rard, and extensions toward Atlanta and North Carolina, with an emphasis on transfer points and timetable fragments.
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