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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1902
Page
3
Local Matters presents a collage of notices from Lancaster area: a fine milch cow for sale, school shoes offered, a request to buy a feather bed, church services, visits among townsfolk, school openings, juror corrections, mortgage and subscription pleas, and community events. Reports mention revivals, birthdays, weddings at Riverside, and preparation for the State fair with reduced railroad rates.
In my absence Mr L El liott is authorized to receipt for all cotton rents due Fitzpatrick and Bro or me as agent. J H Fitzpatrick. October 3, 1902.
At Dick Sowell’s gin near the Chesterfield line Wesley Quick, son-in-law of Sowell, was feeding the gin when his hand and arm were drawn into the machinery. A Black worker shut the gin, but Quick’s arm was torn off up to the shoulder. Doctors Whitley and Eubanks amputated the arm within three inches of the shoulder that night.
A brief notice promotes a cold cure described as the One Day Cold Cure for head cold and sore throat. It references Kew Oli and a product named One Sar Gold Gara Active Quinine, listing chocolates and quinine components as remedies.
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