Local Notices From Waxhaw and Charlotte Reform
Nov 4 1903 Ledger itemizes marriages and obituaries from Waxhaw and Charlotte. R P Starnes wed Miss Lillie Moser. George B Justice and Ethel Rosa unite at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. Mrs Turner Rogers dies in Charlotte after years in Van Wyck. Halloween party reports with cake ring and fortune items. juror duties cited by Yorkville Enquirer.
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Waxhaw Enterprise
R. P. Starnes
Lillie Moser
R. H H. Sapp
Lancaster County
Pineville
Pleasant Valley Baptist Church
George B. Justice
Charlotte
Ethel Rosa
Pleasant Valley
A. L. Stough
Turner Rogers
W. D. Jones
John M. Perry
Jim Williams
Janie Hicklin
Louise Howze
Lillie Adams
Ella Gladden
Flinch
Croconole
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic for Matara Fever
A claim promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a simple cure for chills and fever in Matara. It asserts the product contains iron and quinine, is tasteless, and offers a no care no pay guarantee.
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Matara
Grove
Saluda county public meeting urged for law enforcement
The Columbia Record notes a call for a citizen gathering in Saluda County to protest lawlessness and promote stricter enforcement. Attys for James H. Tillman seek transfer of his case to the county, praising its citizens as law abiding and fair amid reported woes.
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Saluda
James H. Tillman
Columbia Record
Fewer Gallons, Weera Longer. Fewer Gallons, Wears Longer
In Valdosta Georgia Mia Zant cried Look out I'll shoot baby while her year old child sat with a parlor rifle. The rifle discharged wounding the infant who died after a day of agony. Zant grief stricken and calls herself a murderess though the shooting is ruled accidental.
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Valdosta
Mia
Thomas Zant
Mra
Zant
Bold Bank Robber Is Brought To Bay
Raleigh dispatch reports Kings Mountain officers Russell and Hoard capturing a Forest City bank robber who took $2000 five days earlier. A road ambush near Wrights Ferry ended with gunfire. the robber was wounded in the arm and side, downed by return fire. Explosives found on the suspect. injuries likely fatal.
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Raleigh
N. C
Russell
Hoard
Kings Mountain
Forest City
Wright's Ferry
S. O. Russell
Morrow Suit Compromised in Railroad Case
Attorney D F Morrow returned from Washington D C after securing a compromise of 6000 dollars for his son Marvin Morrow in the Fishing Creek wreck suit against Southern Railroad Co near Yorkville S C The settlement is hailed by other lawyers as prudent since a trial would have dragged on and likely yielded no sizable verdict.
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D. F. Morrow
Washington
D. C
Southern Railroad Co
Fishing Creek
Yorkville
S. C
Morrow
Marvin Morrow
Bank of Blacksburg
8. C
Robbers Hold Up Cumberland Telegraph Cashier in Nashville
Two armed men robbed the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph office in Nashville at 5 am securing 3000 dollars from the safe where assistant cashier Melville Wheeler was placing payroll money. Wheeler was struck with a billy and briefly stunned before the heist was completed and the robbers fled with revolvers blazing.
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Nashville
Tenn
Melville Wheeler
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company
Wheeler
Billy
Important Notice to Lancaster Voters Registration Open
Notice to voters of Lancaster that registration books open at the County Auditor’s office in the Court House on Monday October 26 and each Monday in November 1903. Voters not yet registered this year are urged to complete the registration. A McManus Superintendent Registrar Lancaster Ost 19 1903.
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Town of
Lancaster
A. McManus
Supr
Train Hits Funeral Party Beyond Concord
Four people are killed when No 39, a southbound Southern railway passenger train, strikes a funeral wagon four miles from Concord at 9 30 this morning. The wagon carrying Mrs Kate Lewis’s coffin and mourners swerved into the track after the mule team broke free and were struck by the locomotive. Victims named are John Key Benjamin Lippit Denzel Weaver and Miss Lula Townwend all residents nearby. The wreck mangled bodies and shattered the coffin amid a tragic roadside scene.
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Charlotte
Southern Railway
Concord
John Key
Benjamin Lippit
Denzel Weaver
Lula Townwend
Kate Lewis
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Ad Promotes Refund
Advertising copy states take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a promise of a money refund if they fail to cure. It notes E. W. Grove's signature on each box and a price of 25 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Town Tax Notice Urges Payment Before November 10
Town taxes are due at the Town Treasurer's office since October. Taxpayers are urged to pay without delay. After November 10, books close and executions will be issued against delinquents for taxes costs and penalties. R. E. Wrum, Mayor, October 27, 1903.
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R. E. Wrum
Executor's Sale Under Will of Joseph Clark in Lancaster
Executrix Jane M Clark will auction personal property from the late Joseph Clark's residence in Lancaster at 11 o clock a m on Saturday November 21 1908. Items include soda fountain fireproof safe two shot guns fire shrinxer blacksmith and carpenter tools household furnishings books and other articles. Cash terms.
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Joseph Clark
Lancaster
Jane M. Clark
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Carter
Ledger
Yorkville Enquirer
Louisiana
Shreveport
Joseph Craddock
Taylorstown
Craddock
Wesley Chambers
Chambers
Dan Washington
Mercer
North Carolina
Rutherford
Charlotte News
Cartox
James Cocksroot
Charleston
Cherry & Co
Julia Simpson
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