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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
2
A Durham opinion column from September 3 1907 disputes rail rate agitation and car regulations. It argues road supervision improvements, public road rights, and practical automobile rules while noting court cycles and a recent fatal accident amid critique of directory population claims.
Editorial reflects on public concerns over slow driving and keeping children off streets. It argues for diverse viewpoints and questions whether excessive protest should silence debate, noting that some issues claim priority while others are dismissed as mere nuisances.
The six week old child of John Browning died at the father's home and was buried this afternoon. A new coat of paint is begun on the Herndon building front next to Yearby's drug store on Main Street with other improvements planned. Percy T. Elliott launches a general contracting and electrical construction business. Miss Bessie May and J. W. Nowell wed at the brides’ home on Vickers avenue and left for their Sea board Air Line honeymoon. The infant child of Dr and Mrs. C A Adams died and was buried today at 5 with Rev. C J Thompson officiating. D A Latta died on Markham street aged about 50, leaving a wife and five children. funeral was at the home with Maplewood cemetery interment. John Thomas, the jailed preacher, was taken to Raleigh to begin a 15 year term for attempted rape. Work has begun on the new Y M C A building, costing about 32000 dollars, 72 by 102 feet, three stories with basement.
A Michigan dynamite cap case reported by Associated Press dispatches serves as a warning. The evolving story highlights risks tied to small concealed items and parental discipline memories raised by the Chronicle.
The New York American details a central park obelisk brought to the US in 1880 and set at Heliopolis temple in 1881 B C by Thermes III. It notes Augustus moved the obelisk and its London companion to Alexandria, from which the New York transfer occurred. About forty two Egyptian obelisks exist, though many are broken.
A famed music critic at a wedding stops the procession to critique the Lohengrin wedding march. He produces the score and points out slurred notes and a flatted pitch in the da capo. The organist replays the passage and earns the critic’s approval, pleasing the audience.
A New York Herald excerpt contrasts Chinese medical superstition with modern views. It describes a father's ritual use of joss sticks to interpret a sick son’s fate, where a burning stick signals recovery and an extinguished one forewarns death, accompanied by ritual calls to joss men and expulsion of devils.
Mrs. Joacker reads of a life sentence with hard labor for fraud. The accused, Jack Smith, allegedly obtained clothes and a fine turnout with no money, living well while never working. His friends debate guilt and innocence as the story notes his birth to Mr. and Mrs. John Smith.
Early Australian diggers popularized shouting or standing drinks for all in a public house. A striver who refused to drink with a digger who struck it was insulted, and shouting spread as a near universal custom with friends and strangers alike paying the tab.
The Rosetta Stone was found in 1790 during a French military dig near Rosetta. It bears inscriptions in hieroglyphic demotic and Greek and was erected around 1st century BCE to honor Ptolemy Epiphanes for remitting priestly dues. Its true value lay in providing the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.
A dialogue excerpts a minister’s return with humor about ministers sending others to the pulpit. Daniel-Teed comments on practice and a boy’s question about a sings and a jingo. The Washington Star tone imitates witty political banter.
A quirky exchange recounts a remark about curing insomnia in Loveland. The dialogue touches on pretending to be someone else and references a foreman who allegedly perspires up to 45 times daily, as reported by the post.
The article promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women with duties at home or socially. It stresses open ingredient lists, non secret composition, and endorsements by medical writers. It notes the cure of constipation with Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and offers free endorsements book by post.
A Durham Superior Court sale prepares for half cash balance due in ninety days for division of property at the Court House door in Durham. The defendant Bethel Rudd is notified of an absolute divorce action based on adultery, with next term of court on the fourth Monday after the first Monday in September 1907, requiring an answer or risk relief granted to the plaintiff. The notice is dated August 1907 and issued by Clerk Bh. Green.
Superior Court of Durham County appoints a commissioner in the case Robert Goodloe et al versus Henrietta Whitted et al directing the sale of the described property. Sale to be conducted by the undersigned commissioner on a specified date.
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