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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1902
Page
4
Invitations issued by the grand jury of Pennsylvania for the sesquicentennial anniversary of Gen George Washington's initiation into the Murotic fraternity. The event occurred in Fredericksburg Virginia on November 4, 1802. Reports also note orders for reducing the army to 6500 men.
Davis Ky merchant praises Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds as fastest selling item in stock. He claims it cures throat and lung diseases when doctors fail and notes guarantee of satisfaction with trial bottles free and sizes 50 cents and 1.00. Crawford Bros and J F Mackey Co endorse.
President Roosevelt issued an executive order based on an attorney general opinion barring federal officials from soliciting or receiving any political contributions. The order targets circulars from Republican state committees in Ohio and Pennsylvania and warns officials to comply with Civil Service Act provisions.
In Dorham North Carolina P Muse recounts a near fatal stomach and liver illness. He credits Dr King’s New Life Pills with restoring his health after years of suffering. Crawford Bros and J F Mackey Co drug stores offer the pills for 25 cents.
Ida Craddock, prominent in the Yoga Church movement, died Friday night in New York by her own hand. Reports say she feared imprisonment or confinement in a lunatic asylum for allegedly mailing a book in violation of law.
Henry Spang of St Louis Mo seeks location for a hosiery mill to employ about 100 workers start up, rising to 260 300 later. Prefers white cheap labor and coal good shipping to St Louis, near yarn spinning district, in towns of 1500 2000 with current hosiery gap. Requests information from South Carolina towns, especially Columbia, offering concessions and best references.
A wealthy builder, William C. Turner, shot and killed William J. Mallard and a Pittsburg man named Hamilton in Borough President Banter's law office at 25 Broad Street. Turner then died by suicide, in a sensational Wall Street incident dated October 17 in New York.
The arbitration court has rendered a decision in the Pious fund dispute. The ruling favors the United States requiring Mexico to pay 1,420,682.67 dollars to the United States.
The contract to build the nation s first granite and concrete dry dock at the Charleston navy yard has been awarded to a New York company for 916 000 dollars.
A report from La Victoria notes seven days of brutal fighting between government troops and rebels. About 9,000 rebels under Gen. Mendoza retreated toward Villa de Cura as government forces claimed victory. President Castro led a daring assault with a Mauser rifle. casualties total around 3,000. Temperatures spiked to 116 degrees amid the clash, described as a horrific scene. The report credits Castro with leadership that set back the revolutionaries.
A dated testimonial asserts F J Cheney and Company’s reliability over 15 years of business with Cheney, Truax, Waning, and Kimnan Marvin endorsing Hall's Catarrh Cure. The cure is stated to act internally on blood and mucous surfaces, with price per bottle and testimonials available. Hall's Family Pills are praised as well.
Rail schedule shows westbound and eastbound trains with numbers 14 through 17, stopping at Lancaster, Richburg, Bascombylie, Fort Lawy, and Chester. It notes connections with Southern Railway lines to Charlotte Columbia and points north and south, plus an Atlanta Special. Officers Heath and Springs are listed as agents.
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