This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1907
Page
3
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's open label policy listing every ingredient on bottle wrappers and assures safety and efficacy. It touts endorsements by medical teachers, claims non secret formulas, and invites women to request free advice from Dr. Pierce with a medical adviser on request.
Regular correspondence notes scant illness in the community. Mentions visits among families, a Rogers' Store sale at cost, a marriage at the bride's home, hawk scares to protect poultry, and a county school term closing with an educational talk, music and a long program of recitations and songs.
In Flat River Township Roger Timberlake and Henry Taft have two of the largest wood stacks known locally. Other notes mention Button Dunn visiting Durham, a Recorder office stop, and rumors of possible police attention. Social visits, church attendance, and farm labor fill the sparse week with minor local happenings.
The article describes Philander Hay offering to saw and split three cords of wood for residents at $1.75 per day, insisting on terms after inspecting the shed yard. He refuses jobs by the piece, citing wear on his tools and liniment, implying no profit in per job work.
A Sunday School lesson on Genesis xxviii traces Jacob’s flight from Beersheba to seek a wife, noting the ladder dream and God’s promises. It emphasizes God’s blessing, Abrahamic seed, and the call to wholehearted commitment to Christ as the true path to salvation.
The term sirloin of beef derives from surloin or surlonge, meaning the upper portion of the loin. A tale credits King James I at Hoghton Hall in Lancashire with jokingly renaming it Sir Loin, praising it as the noblest joint.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.