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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1903
Page
4
Testimony centers on Gonzales statement of the shooting by James H. Tillman. Lawyers clash over admissibility of the dying declaration as witnesses recount Gonzales and Tillman interactions and the moments before and after the gunfire.
Questions to Wallace Nelson and Croft focus on Gonzales attitude toward Tillman and others. Editorial tone from The State cited in evidence. Prosecution and defense clash over hospital statement relevance as Dr Barron testifies. Cross examinations emphasize frame of mind and potential consequences.
A Mrs Haviland of Armonk New York credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving her daughter from a nearly fatal bout of whooping cough and bronchitis after other remedies failed. She also notes her niece recovered from consumption with the same medicine. Trial bottles offered free by Crawford Bros and J Mackey and T Penderburk.
A Texas report warns cotton crops are badly hurt statewide by boll weevil boll worm and drought. Probable yield drops to 2.5 million bales if late frost does not occur, vs six weeks earlier 6 million. Insect damage spans 89 counties with a few counties still hopeful. In Greenville a machinist Henry Sam Floyd, 40, dies instantly at Woodside Cotton Mill after a pulley fall.
Rev. dno Cox of Wake Arkansas claims twelve years of yellow jaundice cured by Electric Bitters. He reports relief after using the tonic and recommends it for liver kidney stomach and general debility. Crawford Bros Mackey Co and T K Fanderburk advertise the remedy as guaranteed.
An advertisement urges readers with coughs and colds to use Foley's Honey and Tar, claiming it is the greatest throat and lung remedy and cures rapidly. Signed by T. KE. Funderburk.
For sale is 80 acres of good farming or pasture land on Flat Crees water, located miles from Wy and Brewer gold mines, seven miles from Jefferson, LA from Ker shaw. Terms apply to T. S. Carter, Lancaster, G. C.
Otto Dodd of Ponder Missouri says a year long sore was cured by Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. He praises the salve as the best on earth and notes it is sold at Crawford Bros J F Mackey Co and T E Funderburk’s Drag Store for 25 cents.
Dr Aberne thy warns kidney illness endangers life and endorses Foley's Kidney Cure as a remedy. I E Funderburk cites the claim as promoting kidney health through the cure.
An advertisement asserts Grove’s Taste less Chill Tonic contains Lior and Quivine with a tasteless formula. It promises no cure and no pay for the product, noting a 50 price.
An old advertisement claims Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs and colds and prevents pneumonia. It instructs readers to take no substitutes and bears the name T. Ek. Fonderburk and Foley's Home Remedy label.
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