Homicide near Williams ton shocks town
A young man named Asin Chapman came to Williamston seeking Magistrate Acker and confessed to shooting Walker Williams on a Rogers farm. Williams died soon after from a heart wound, Chapman jailed for murder, as reports confirm the fatal incident occurred three miles from town. New Camden Bank receives state commission for a new savings institution with 25000 capital. Harmony farm barn destroyed by fire near Rock Hill with livestock, implements, no insurance.
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Williamston
Asin Chapman
R. V. Acker
Walker Williams
J.C. Rogers
Chapman
Camden
J Messra
E. 5. Vaux
D. R. Williams
John W. Corbet
Creral Savings
Harmony
Will W. Vod
Rock Hill Herald
Grove's Taste Less Chill Tonic Ad Claims No Cure Pay
An advertisement emphasizes Grove's Taste less Chill Tonic with a plainly printed formula on the bottle. It notes quinine in a tasteless form and offers the promise No Cure No Pay at 50 cents.
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Grove
Notable Obscurities and Deaths Stir Yorkville News
General V D Groner died in Norfolk Virginia on Wednesday night. Roosevelt’s uncle K Gracie also died in New York on Wednesday. Two more gunboats ordered to Panama by US authorities. Pension Commissioner Ware plans private life next year. A Tavora cotton mill worker’s hog, weighed 517 pounds after slaughter and scraping. The Cuban reciprocity bill sparked Senate debate with Morgan criticizing Roosevelt’s Panama policy.
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V. D. Groner
Norfolk
Beauregard
Sumter
Jessie
United States Pension Commissioner
Ware
Allen
Tavora
Yorkville Enquirer
Law and Order League Issues State Address and Plan
The executive committee of the Law and Order league in Columbia completed its organization adopting a constitution and plans to send workers to every county to organize voters for the order. A weekly paper in Columbia is proposed to publicize the cause and urge enforcement of laws including the dispensary. The address urges citizens to unite, support law enforcement, and back Governor Heyward’s dispensary efforts.
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State League
Law and Order League
Columbia
South Carolina
State Temperanes, Law and Order League
Heyward
Dr J W Day Murder Trial Opens In Asheville
Asheville November 24 The trial of Dr J W Day for murder in the first degree began in superior court this morning The entire forenoon was taken up with jury selection The defense pleads insanity Day killed his three children at their Barnardsville home on October 17 He was arraigned before Judge Shaw at a special term and the trial postponed on defense motion citing insufficient time to summon expert witnesses
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Asheville
J. W. Day
Superior Court
Day
Barnardsville
Shaw
House refuses adjournment until Cuban bill acts
Washington describes a policy that no move to adjourn the extra session of the Fifty eighth Congress will be entertained until the senate passes the Cuban bill. Speaker Cannon and leaders reaffirm the stance as Senate leaders expect no rush to end the session before December 7 when it lapses into the regular session.
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Washington
Senate
House of Representatives
Cannon
A Policeman's Testimony and a Murfreesboro Tragedy
Nashua Indiana officer J N Patterson cites Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure for a severe lung cold after trying many remedies and doctors. A tragic death reports Mrs. Silas Bracklin, once famed as America's beauty, burned to death at her Murfreesboro Tennessee home.
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J. N. Patterson
Nashua, In
Foley
T. Eugene Funderburk
Silas Bracklin
America
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Delightful Lancaster Club Reception by Federation President
Mrs Martha Orr Patterson president of the Federation of Woman's Clubs visited Lancaster S C on Thanksgiving Day 1903. At 4 pm a reception at Mrs Ira B Jones home featured a Civic and library extension talk praising club work across the state. Refreshments followed as Mrs Patterson met members and stirred support for federation activities. D Wylie Nov 27 1903.
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Lancaster
S. C
Federation of Woman’s
No Cure No Pay Tonic Claim and Global Strikes
A historical clipping notes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic described as iron and quinine with no cure, pay offer. It reports Colombia plans an army of 100000, widespread forest fires in Mississippi and Arkansas, and halted cotton picking to combat the fires. Mississippi River navigation disrupted. In England five hundred cotton weavers strike at Burnley over wage cuts, the first such action in the English cotton districts.
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Mississippi
Arkansas
Mississippi River
Burnley
England
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Columbia State
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Roosevelt
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United States
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Law and Order
J. W. Hamel
Howell Morrell
Kershaw
Man
Marara
Republic of Colombia
Sheriff's Sals
State OF South Carolina
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Court of Common Pleas
Mary Jane Estridge
Jacob Faile
Alice Blackman
Fannie Hunter
Sarat Faile
Flat Creek
John C. Catoe
Amos Mungo
Rien Hinson
John C. Castor
Mary J Eatridge
Elizabeth Hinson
Lancasster County
J.P. Hunter
R.E. Wylie
Aty
Cherry & Co
Julia Simpson
Heath Banking & Mercantile Co
Lancaster, S
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