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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1901
Page
4
Daily except Sunday schedule notes westbound bus numbers 14 and 16 with timing details. Route changes list stops at Richbury Bascombville Fort Lawn and other points with morning and afternoon times and fares including ten and seven dollar amounts.
A lengthy item lists dozens of teachers with wages and steadings across multiple districts. It includes names like Rowell Perry Verge Russell Annie Newly Love Hunter Bhurley Binkenry Corie Davis Plyler and Virginia McMurray among many others, with monthly sums next to each name. The text concludes with financial tallies showing total payments from various funds including ordinary funds and dispensaries, signed by County Treasurer W. Cauthen.
A list of payroll entries from a dispensary school fund showing various staff payments. Names include LT Baker teaching and Maggie Ragsdale, with amounts ranging from 20.00 to 2500.00 and others such as Berry Mobley Oakhurat, Nettle Price, Mrs Lou Biddle, and Virginia Robertson noted for teaching or reaching duties. Descriptions are brief and amounts indicate salaries or stipends.
Advertises Hindipo Tonic and Vitalizer claiming to relieve exhaustion dizziness headaches backache and female weakness during monthly periods. Promises quieting of nerves cleansing of blood brain clarity and overall youthful tone. Price 50c per box or 12 boxes for 3 dollars. mailed by Crawford Brow Druggiata Lancaster & C. Agents.
A South Carolina speaker argues for expanded foreign trade and naval subsidies to boost the nation’s Pacific commerce and defend the Chinese Empire's integrity. He cites Calhoun and Cheves, defends subsidies as essential for national interests, and laments the decline of an American merchant marine versus subsidized foreign ships.
Countless thousands hail Dr Kings New Life Pills as a purely vegetable remedy curing constipation sick headache dizziness jaundice malaria fever and ague and liver and stomach troubles. Sold for 25 at Crawford Bros and Joo Mackey Co rug store.
The May flood caused extensive losses across the region. Farmers are destitute and homes were swept away. More than a thousand people in Alentown face starvation as all local stores were destroyed by the storm.
Advertisement claims Cascarets Candy Cathartic as the most important recent discovery for constipation. States genuine tablets stamped C C C and never sold in bulk. Druggists offer the remedy at 10 cents per box.
One hundred dollar reward claims catarrh cure by Hall's Catarrh Cure from CHENEY and CO. Toledo firms praise FJ Buenvy as honorable. TRUAX and WALDING & MARVIN endorse. Cure advertised as internal remedy acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills praised.
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