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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1907
Page
2
Notice shows second class matter status dated August 8 1903 at Durham North Carolina and advertising rates by inquiry. Includes mention of three months and rates of 1.00 and 25 cents per item.
A 1907 Durham column summarizes court adjournments delaying cases, railway wrecks on No. 13, county wealth growth, and memorials for Dr. A H Moment in Raleigh. It questions Bryan appearances, Roosevelt church attendance, and insurance claim practices amid local talk on politics and public life.
Tax books show county wealth at 21,140,542 with increases of over 3,000,000 from prior listing. Whites own 17,171,711 in real and personal property while colored hold 561,163. total polls 4,570 with whites 3,308 and colored 1,262. Sheriff Har vard to collect about 150,000 in taxes.
The jury found Rowland not guilty after ten hours of trial and a tense courtroom scene. Judge Long condemned disruptive cheering as an outrage. The Rowlands then hosted a public reception at their offices and prepared for a family gathering near Henderson, amid a wary public mood.
Special one first class fare plus 25 cents with pre July 1 1907 rates plus 50 cents for Grounds admission from North Carolina points. Outside NC grounds admission not added. Children over five under twelve half fare. Military bands twenty five plus on ticket two cents per mile one way. Tickets sold Oct 11–18 and forenoon trains to Raleigh by Oct 19, limit Oct 21. Special trains run from all Seaboard territory to handle business. See flyers advertising special.
A Harper's Magazine excerpt describes two plant classes influenced by humans the sensitive plants that retract leaflets and vines with tendrils that explore and coil. It highlights tendril intelligence as they test surfaces and choose supports, illustrated by a grapevine tendril probing a damaged cherry leaf.
In Indiana years ago a witness arrives in a poke bonnet. The court asks her to remove it and she counters that a bonnet may not be forced off a lady. The judge invites her to sit on the bench, she declines, and a light banter ends with a curt comparison to old women on the bench.
The article links a sour stomach to foul taste and disease, likening digestion to butter churn. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for biliousness indigestion and related symptoms, offering a free booklet from Buffalo, New York upon request.
Public sale of a Durham County North Carolina lot described as fronting 68 feet on Shepherd Street with 183 310 feet depth, Lot No 59 in the exclusive of the sidewalk, under a May 6 1905 deed of trust securing a note, to be sold by H A Foushee trustee at 12 00 M at the Court House door.
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