Judge and attorney clash over manners in court
An exchange between a Chicago lawyer and a quick tempered western judge surfaces as a courtroom tale. The judge says he can teach law but not manners and the Chicago lawyer replies that this is true. A formal notice follows about applying to the General Assembly to charter the Mechanics and Farmers Bank in Durham on this 15th day.
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Washington
Chicago
Perkins
General Assembly
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
Durham
Florence Reams
Roxboro
Roper
Helena
James Gooch
Mr. Gooch
John Jones
Graham
G. H. Jones
J. H. Reams
G. W. Thomas
Joe Moore
Reamstown
Presley Mangum
Sneed
George Bowen
J. P. Tingen
Laura
Charles Allen
Local notes reflect daily life and people in the region
Regular correspondent column records neighbors plowing trips to Roxboro and Helena, job moves, home construction, marriages, missing watches, a rabbit hunt, and small town social scenes. It notes the grip of illness, sap in trees, and local pride in The Recorder’s print.
Robert Burns Portrait and poems amid 19th century notices
A fragmentary 1907 newspaper page blends Robert Burns lore with verse about Mary Morison and a faint medical advertisement for a herbal tonic. It also includes a North Carolina court notice naming Henry Markham heirs and a 1907 Durham County administratrix filing with a February date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Durham County
T. J. Howerton
Henry Markham
Remembrance Talk From a Southern Kitchen
A narrator recalls overheard talk between a cook and a maid about a funeral for a Black community member. The cook criticizes floral tributes and imagines burying a watermelon vine on the grave to let juice drip into the ground as a final jokey tribute.
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Mandy
Dr Pieren Golden Medical Discovery Promoted for Indigestion
An advertisement extols Dr Pieren Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for weak stomach and indigestion. It claims the product uses pure glycerine and avoids alcohol and touts endorsements from medical figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pieren
Riis M. D
Bennett Medical Ee Chica
Dyapepsia
Train Schedule Effective April 16 1905
Trains depart Durham No 238 daily except Sunday at 1 am for Oxford and Henderson with through vestibule cars and Pullman sleepers dining cars. No 222 daily except Sunday at pm is a mixed train to Henderson. No 241 arrives Durham daily except Sunday from Henderson and Oxford. Connections at Henderson with North and South lines.
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Durham
Oxford
Henderson
Imd South
Pullman
Cord
Ae Sah
Sanday
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Durham, N. C
C. E. King & Sons
West Main Street
Durham, N.C
Che
Sob
Henry Dillard
Office of the Register of Is
Wake County
Carolina
Zachriah Rich
Lacy King
W. W. King and I
N. FE
Victor
AVANT
Wood
TW. Wood & Sons
George Garrett
Polly Rhew
Recorder
J. R. James
Sam Blalock
Richard
A. P. Long
Robert Burns
Mount Oliphant
Ayr
Lochlea
Ellison Begbie
Burns
Mary Morison
Mary
Kearney & Sons
Markham
Jerry Markham
Henry , Markham
Mary Barbee
Will Carlton
Arabella Carlton
Mary Markham
Lewis Carlton
N. C
Hen Wrenn
Court House
Dou
Harvard
Schloss Bros. & CO
W.A. Slater CO
OSF
Yearby’s
Dcarne
Carrolina
Peerless
J. S. Carr, JR
W. M. Speed
Man
Man Mae
Addrey
New York City
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Principal
Citi
H. Reams
C. B. Ryan
Portemou
Vest Up
Royal Medicine CO
Marine Bidg
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