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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1908
Page
2
A Durham editorial argues wealth influences law enforcement and fairness. It cites cases in which a farmer and a local prominent citizen faced penalties while others received harsher treatment, urging equal application of the law and scrutiny of corporate influence and newspaper backing.
Two couples wed in East Durham last Sunday with ceremonies at 6 20 pm and 7 pm. James W Moore wed Miss Jula Ethel Lea at the bride’s father Silas M Lea home with Rev A P Barbee officiating. Vera Tippett became Mrs Robert Worable at Eli Tippett’s home with Rev J A Daily presiding and several attendants.
John Motley Morehead, congressman elect from North Carolina's fifth district, a Leaksville woolen mill owner and son of Col. John L. Morehead, is described as a businessman with extensive real estate in Charlotte Rockingham and Cabarrus counties. The piece notes his UNC and Baltimore business college education, bank stint in Charlotte, and leadership of Leaksville mills known for Leaksville blankets and hotel trade influence via John Wannamaker. It also covers his family, marriage to Mary Garrett, three children, and political stance as a Republican not a career politician. The narrative extends to local notes from Rougemont Route 4, inquiring about wheat and corn, teachers in Person county, tobacco sales in Durham, and church activities at Red Mountain.
An advertisement touts Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery with a full ingredient list on the wrapper. It promotes stomach and liver help, non alcoholic formula, and references a free booklet from Dr. B V Pierce in Buffalo New York. It also markets Dr Pierce's All healing Salve for skin sores and urges sending postage for the small remedy.
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