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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1904
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows names and terms like Crawford, Sargon, Tathounter, 6C Treatins and eye care. Uninterpretable lines mention an office, contact phrases, and scattered words including phones and locations. No coherent event or outcome is discernible.
Four heavily armed men struck the First National Bank of Cody Wyoming killing cashier Frank Middaugh and escaping into the nearby Rat Creek mountains. A running pursuit by several posses is underway as Buffalo Bill and his party of Englishmen and Sioux scouts prepare to pursue the bandits.
A posse led by Sheriff Jeff Champion overtook the outlaws at dusk twenty miles south. A commission issued west of Cody preceded a battle near Broad River Light and Pow where Champion faced threats to his horac company. Injuries occurred at Lockhart as capital stock was pegged at one million dollars. The fragment mentions bandits seeking water power mills and a cough medicine advertisement interrupts the text.
Jamesonteix Hendrix, a 22 year old Montgomery figure, was found dead on the roof of the Americas National Bank building with burglary tools nearby and evidence of electrocution. He wore militiary and civilian clothes found at the armory, and a coroner's jury ruled death by electricity. Hendrix had notable city connections and was seen with a stranger earlier, with investigators probing burglary links and bank ties.
B F Bass of Fremont North Carolina reports severe illness from kidney trouble, tried medicines, found relief after using Electric Bitters. He claims several neighbors were cured of rheumatism neuralgia liver and kidney trouble and general debility by the remedy available at Crawford Bros J Mackey Co and Bunderbur Pharmacy.
Warning that coughs can lead to pneumonia bronchitis and dangerous illnesses urges use of Murray’s Horehound Mallein and Tar to stop a cough. Available for 25¢ per bottle with regular 0c size and preferred over other remedies.
The President today issued the Thanksgiving proclamation designating Thursday November 24 as a day of festival and Thanksgiving for all people of the United States at home and abroad.
An old time remedy ad touts Murray's Horehound Mullein and Tar as the purest cough cure used by previous generations. It claims strong for babies and all forms of congestion, urging readers to ask their druggist for the product, with large bottles priced and promotion to request Murray's by name.
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