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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1900
Page
3
Names, movements, and events mix in a Lancaster Ledger style update. Mr WGA Porcer rents Kibler Howe on Main Street to move in within ten days. Community updates include obituaries, births, property sales, school notes, and local incidents such as a horse with hydrophobia and a child’s funeral.
An OCR fragment recounts a rural wood fire started by hunters near the roadside, injuring Capt Moore and damaging property. It includes oblique references to a fatal accident, a railway incident, a building collapse, and scattered community notices. The text also mentions page-long ads, religious and elegiac passages, local business pitches, and scattered names, places, and events without clear coherence.
The notice declares both women and men suffer kidney and bladder disorders and promotes Swamp Root by Dr. Kilmer & Co. It claims rapid relief and offers free sample bottles and a pamphlet by mail from Binghamton New York, urging readers to mention their paper.
The readable segments mention a location near Fay 20 and a sequence of garbled words including Peach and Si. References to cities, lanterns, and various fragments hint at a damaged notice or listing with unclear dates or entities and no coherent event or action.
Property and lot offers include a $1 100 vacant acre lot with a residence and barn, a $1 200 Blackmon lot with a new six room cottage and barn, and a request to write for the price of a laton near a room and warehouse. The notice notes deaths and advises from Ms. Reiley and references Keen County town deeds and local listings.
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