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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1903
Page
4
Newsbriefs from Lancaster County cover a range of items. Local residents seek missing or moved persons, school openings and teachers, a new rock crusher shipment, and social events like a hot supper for charity. Also reported are a fatal shooting at Sandhill church, a jail escape, a serious runaway accident, and ongoing health and court updates involving townspeople and neighbors.
The cotton market shows rivers of decline with prices tumbling to 10 cents and sales lagging. Through Monday night 6,702 bales were sold since opening, 427 bales shy of last year at this time, while little cotton remains in fields and most county crop is already marketed. In Columbia, George D. Heath’s stolen dress suitcase was recovered with thief John Rabb jailed, after detectives Smvieklant and Thackham traced the theft and returned the goods yesterday.
An old notice from New Hope announces a gathering on November 27 at 11 a.m. with discussion topics on church work, baptism, missionary activity, and local pastorate concerns. The document also briefly promotes a tonic, claiming no cure, no pay.
A fragmentary message mentions returning from the North and finding good bargains. The text is garbled, with stray phrases about pools, daily pills, and attention to a sale, but no clear event, date, or identifiable entities are readable.
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