23 Jun 1900
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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1900
Page
1
Crowds throng the store every day as shoppers seek the best prices. Sales staff stay busy keeping up with demand while customers wait for service. The ad claims prices have paralyzed competition and cash buyers head for the best deal.
To order to rer our shoe stock i Douglass $300 shoes in tan viei and rossir ree aL S250. Craddock Terry & Co's $500 shoes in tan and black. We are nearly sell out in this department and must be sold at bargain prices. Ladies misses and childrens low cut ties and slippers. Venison the dollar, largest millinery business ever done in Lancaster. Arrive this week.
Lexington session reviewed an adultery indictment against Jobo B Sharpe and Mrs Mags gie O'Brien tied to a Utah divorce decree. Judge Klugh noted Utah's jurisdiction could bind, quashing the case considered but not yet decided amid legal debate. Big Wheat Yields Reported In Anderson County.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for burns scalds cuts and bruises. It claims rapid pain relief and prompt healing of sores ulcers boils felons corns and skin eruptions with a 25 cent box price and Crawford Bros Druggist guarantee.
Edgefield becomes the first county to place the selection of the county dispatcher in the upcoming primary election. The move targets local hiring process and aims to reflect voter input in staffing.
Relief in six hours for kidney and bladder disease praised as prompt and effective. Claims rapid relief of back pain and water retention in both genders. Marketed by J F Mackey & Co., Druggist, Lancaster. 8 O.
Special to Greenville News reports the first week of the campaign shows Gov McSweeney losing ground as opponents cite the dispensary system. Patterson in Orangeburg is the favorite, Hoyt and Gary split honors at St George, Charleston remains McSweeney stronghold with no clear favorite. Voters oppose the dispensary but cannot unite on a single anti dispensary candidate. Senator Tillman likely to return to the Senate. AC Jones fields a strong challenge. Walt Whitman has paid $50 to join the race and backs strict dispensary enforcement and opposes state higher education. Col Jones gives Whitman a receipt for fifty dollars.
The Philadelphia convention saw wild cheers as Roosevelt and McKinley were nominated amid banners and band music. Speakers including Foraker and Lodge urged support while delegates clamor for a roll call vote and acclaim for the Republican ticket. In separate news, a major early morning fire in Bloomington Illinois destroyed five blocks of business districts, gutted the county court building, and damaged two hotels with losses estimated between 1.5 and 2 million dollars.
Laurens June 2 The coroner was summoned to Tip Top to hold an inquest over Ernest Hill colored who was killed the evening before by his brother Archie The record notes a justifiable homicide at Owings Station a few days earlier and mentions a Gavestt killing in Pinson with John Reeder the negro tied to Section Master Robins on Monday last three killings in less than a week in Laurens.
Columbia journalist notes that Jane zl.-J GL Eargle, a known clerk and business man, committed death by own action using a pistol and razor after heavy drinking. He ran a grocery store in the Colleutte building on Gervais street. Also reported is the death of Napoleon Lavalle, the Charleston prisoner who killed his wife in 1889, following a hernia operation at the penitentiary.
In Manila on June 21 a Manila assembly of two hundred Filipinos approved a seven point peace plan to end hostilities. They submitted the terms to General MacArthur for sanction and pacification. The agenda calls for Filipino civil government, return of confiscated property, employment for revolutionary leaders, funding from Filipino revenues, protection of personal rights, expulsion of the friars, and a possible amnesty. The crowd cheered the expulsion call.
An old advertisement claims a monster devil ish constipation harms organs nerves and brain and promises a safe cure. It touts Dr King's New Life Pills as best for stomach liver kidneys and bowels and notes a price of 25 cents at Crawford Bros Drug Store.
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