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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1902
Page
3
The Ledger notes Camp Dixie U S V invites all comrades to meet Friday March 28 at the court house at 11 pm to elect delegates for the Dallas reunion April 22 to 25. Round trip fare is 22.25. Commander Porter and Adjutant Jones urge full attendance and salute every veteran.
A brother editor argues readers should not rage at demand for payment of subscriptions. He says a dun reflects publisher necessity, not subscriber integrity, citing debts from one to four dollars and urging timely payment rather than canceling the paper.
The Columbia State accuses Jim Tillman lieutenant governor of South Carolina and potential candidate of falsifying records and publishes accompanying proof to convict him, intensifying campaign scrutiny this year.
Special to Charlotte Observer reports Highland Park Manufacturing Company will build a $100,000 oil mill beside its cotton mill site in Rock Hill South Carolina. Construction starts promptly with a first class gunnery facility to support the fertilizer factory.
Ad touts Dr King's New Life Pills as a cure for constipation sick headache biliousness indigestion and jaundice. Claims thousands bless them and urges purchase at Crawford Bros J F Mackey and Co drug store for 25 cents.
County Treasur Campbell of Richland died at his Columbia home last Sunday morning following a weeklong illness due to heart trouble.
An old advertisement promotes a generic cold cure labeled One Day Cold Cure. It touts relief for a head cold and sore throat using a Ren moti style product with Chocolates Laxative Quinine and the Ome Day Cold Gara as featured treatments.
Bruce family invite guests to the marriage of Lillie May Bruce to William Belton at their residence on Tuesday afternoon April Last at 50 o clock. Miss Bruce described as attractive with strong character. Mr Wertz, Greenville native and News linotype operator, seen as a good match.
Mr Estridge thanks neighbors for kindness during his wife and daughter's illness and honors doctors J W Perry and F Hinson for saving his daughter from pneumonia. He expresses gratitude to Mr Editor and mentions God’s power. Also reports Gus Johnson was shot and killed by railroad agent D A Pittman at Nichols in Marion county Saturday night.
Yonkers Statesman notes there are 40 counties in Texas with no lawyers. The exchange, Egbert orator, suggests Texas isn’t a bad place overall despite the gap.
MNWILLIAMS-HUGHES CO. notes the death of Mrs. J. F. M. Estridge, daughter of James Adams. Born near Dec 2 1880, she left five children, survived by three. A Baptist church member since 1881, she lived in Pleasant Plains Taxa haw White Bluff. Poem laments loss and urges submission to God as family mourns.
At Canandaigua New York a five year resident known as William Howard died after taking throat medicine. An autopsy showed the supposed farm hand was a woman named Alice M. Howard who had two children with the woman known as Mrs. Howard. The case spawns an inquest as investigators seek the dead woman’s true name and details of a 1892 marriage to Edith D. Vere.
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