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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1903
Page
4
A quoted poem outlines the bar as a doorway to heaven and hell describing its effects on manhood wealth health and virtue. It portrays temptations leading to sin grief and despair and warns of drunken ruin and broken homes.
A reporter interacts with a self made business figure who reveals he prioritized rapid achievement over stated maxims. The man finally offers a few maxims privately but insists the reporter not publish them, noting he followed a path of hustle first and principles second.
Mrs C B Van Metre of Shepherdstown West Virginia reports a severe bronchitis case lasting a year with no relief until one bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery cured her completely. The medicine is advertised as infallible for croup whooping cough grip pneumonia and consumption with trial bottles free and regular sizes priced at 50 and 1.00.
A Carthage Missouri deacon drives with grandchildren to Centre Creek and amid Sunday remonstrances is hooked by a catfish. He forgets the day and catches several fish, finally declaring the outing awful as he heads home to church.
The weekly crop report notes worsening drought in the Central and West Gulf states, delaying seed germination. Corn planting advances slowly in the central and eastern corn belt with better progress in Kansas and Nebraska. Early cotton is damaged by cold east of the Mississippi, with rapid planting overall except Mississippi, where drought delays progress. Tobacco remains healthy but some transplanting and worm damage affect stands in the Carolinas and Kentucky.
Dr T O Meritt of No Mehoopany Pa reports a dramatic recovery after treating a patient with violent stomach hemorrhages due to ulceration. He notes immediate improvement from Electric Bitters and no further attacks in 14 months. The tonic is advertised for dyspepsia indigestion constipation and kidney troubles, 50 cents at Crawford Bros and J F Mackey Co.
An editor boasts of being kissed by a beautiful married woman and threatens to name her next month. The town paper’s circulation doubles before he names his wife and flees. A dyer lesson compares cloth dyeing to reputation, noting black cannot be made white again.
Foley’s Honey and Tur is peculiar and touted as suited for asthma bronchitis and hoarseness by Tugene Futherburk a local druggist.
A short notice announces a subscription rate of $1.50 per annum for Tue Lancaster Lepoer delivered to readers.
The Chicago Chronicle reports harsh liquor penalties abroad and contrasts them with South Carolina’s temperance laws. Drunkards in Persia face bans from markets and mosques with eighty lashings if drinking again. Turks and Montenegrins use corporal or assassinations. The piece condemns local liquor sales in South Carolina as profit driven and urges the Board of Control to curb supply.
Trustworthy lady or gentlewoman sought to manage a well known, solidly financed house in the county and surrounding area. $20 cash weekly plus expenses, paid by check from headquarters each Monday. Permanent position with expense money in advance. Apply to Thomas Cooper, Manager, 1039 Cuxton Building, Chicago.
An old Toledo advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure and family pills from F J Sheney Co with testimonials claim and wholesale agents in Toledo. It states price per bottle and internals for blood and mucous membranes. It asserts Sheney’s 15 years of honorable trading and lists partners Ammandals Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin.
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