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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1907
Page
2
The Durham column notes Christmas shoppers ignore economic strain as merchants push holiday sales. It urges delinquent subscribers to renew and pay, hints at express company double charges, and praises Charlottes Observer recent Christmas edition for its quality and content.
A Roanoke-Chowan Times piece visits Jozeph Outland's farm one mile north of town. The Outland family, including two sons Leroy and Frank and two daughters, runs a well kept farm worth at least 5000 dollars with orderly barns cattle horses hogs sheds and wood storage. The family lives debt free with plenty of money, peace with neighbors, and rural free delivery service, though money panics disturb their sleep.
Readers report fox kills with large weights alongside multiple hunters and neighbors visiting Ferguson families. Notices mention a 94 year old widow's burial, a log raising, bird hunting waning, and a push on the Y M C A building with a new business block and water tank for Southern Railway trains.
Miss Hallie Brown and Ronnie Wood wed December 5 at the Brown home with Rev. Madison Yates officiating. A school concert at Green Level School on December 2 invites the public, featuring the string band.
The year shows fewer marriages than the previous year according to the register of deeds M G Markham. The board committee reviewed the report after it was passed from the county commissioners, noting a decrease in licenses issued this year.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pletee's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for periodic headaches abdominal discomfort and other female-related symptoms. It claims no alcohol or habit forming drugs and offers a private consultation with a free pamphlet on request from Dr. I. V Butta New York.
The document records two notices from Durham County Superior Court. One summons for J T Gilmer, non resident in Virginia, to publish for 30 days in The Durham Recorder and appear by March 1908. another summons to Jones Frasier Inc stockholders to appear as a Receiver is appointed to manage the company assets, with court dates in 1968.
The notice cites legal action requiring all persons in Melved to come forward with claims by November 24, 1907 or face suit. Attorneys Manning and Fries are to appear once before the court to handle recoveries for Hattie Jenkins, executor of West Chapel Hill Street estate.
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