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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1907
Page
3
A local appeal urges residents to support hometown businesses to keep money and young people from leaving. It emphasizes buying locally, reading the paper, and asking home merchants for needed goods to strengthen the community and economy.
A European article describes Mount Pelatto near Liparia, with pumice mines worked with minimal support. Women and children haul stone to Canueto workshops, where the finest is called foam and all edges are filed down. Filers earn 15 cents a day, and the work harms health due to dense white silica dust.
At a Durham city meeting the bond election for street improvements was called off to avoid defeating county road funds. The Durham Light and Power Company was closed by the sheriff to satisfy a judgment with payment expected soon. George W. Howard died at age 69 on Dowd Street. funeral held. Trinity College baseball trip notes wins over Richmond College and loss to Virginia. Durham Chamber of Commerce plans a key meeting. Captain Parrish to resign as president. School patrons were invited to visit Durham Graded Schools this week to review student training. Blackwell Durham Tobacco Company received a charter and sought an injunction against American Tobacco Company. case docketed for the next superior court term.
A surprise marriage occurred Thursday afternoon at a reservoir pond during a planned picnic. The couple, M. D. Bright and Mary Elizabeth Roberts, wed with Rev. G. T. Adams officiating in Durham in front of family and friends. They will reside with J. W. Bright, the groom’s brother, for now.
A New York Press anecdote shows painters at work in a dining room. A housewife scolds about how work should proceed while one artist quips that her mouth would be open and she’d suffer colic, prompting silence for the rest of the job.
A romantic vignette from London Telegraph describes two lovers on a cliffside night. He asks what she sees in him to love 80, she quips that’s what everybody says. The stillness of the sea and the tense silence heighten the moment.
A touring motorist in Ireland quips about donkey carts by noting the donkey is in the shafts in his turnout while on the seat in the others. John Randolph of Roanoke meets a rude political foe on a narrow street and graciously yields, saying I do as he steps aside.
The Black family suit against Blackwell Durham Tobacco Co of New Jersey was heard in the supreme court. The court ruled last Tuesday the case should be tried in state courts. The case began long ago amid disputes among relatives of the late Col. W. T. Blackwell and others.
Hosea Barbee and Ben Hester were bound over to court on multiple charges including assault with a deadly weapon and carrying concealed weapons. Barbee’s bonds totaled 175 dollars for three cases. Hester’s total was 75 dollars for two cases. Previously, they were involved in a Masonic Hall shooting where Barbee fled and Hester was wounded, linked to jealousy over Barbee’s wife.
The South Atlantic Quarterly from Trinity College is commended for its universal worth and interest. The Charlotte Observer lauds the April number as highly valuable, urging thoughtful readers in North Carolina and the South to add it to their lists.
A humorous exchange between Mr Grouch and Mrs Grouch appears in Brooklyn Life. He argues a single man is wise while a woman must be married to gain knowledge. She counters with Solomon’s 700 wives and Minerva the goddess who never married.
An advertisement argues marriage and motherhood dull the lively balance of women, citing ignorance and neglect of pelvic health. It touts Favorite Prescription as a safe tonic and nervine, claiming it strengthens weak women and supports nursing mothers and expectant mothers, with Dr. Pierce offering free consultation by letter.
In Durham County a Superior Court order directs the public sale of two land tracts in Lebanon Township. The sale, April 1 1907, offers 2.46 acres and 30.1 acres on Little River to the highest bidder, with terms: one-fourth cash, one-third in six months, one-third in twelve months, secured by notes bearing interest from sale day, subject to court confirmation.
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