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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1920
Page
6
A Dillon South Carolina woman reports two years of catarrh and related ailments improved after using PE-RU-NA. She says doctors gave up, weight rose from 100 to 150 pounds, and twelve bottles cured her. She endorses PE-RU-NA for coughs, colds, stomach and bowel trouble, rheumatic pain, back and joint pains, and Spanish flu prevention.
A lengthy survey of William J. Bryan's influence at the Democratic National Convention notes his failure to push a platform plank on prohibition but his success in blocking a single force from controlling the nominating process. It also discusses the party’s broader strategy, Roosevelt and Taft dynamics, and the rising use of phonograph speeches to reach voters. The piece then shifts to campaign themes from Harding and Coolidge, urging restoral of party government, and outlines steel industry troubles tied to railroad car shortages, labor strife, and material weaknesses threatening next winter. It closes with suffrage hopes and foreign policy contests in Greece, Turkey, and Poland, plus Ireland’s unrest and rail disruptions.
A large crowd attended Orphanage Day in Thomasville where children performed and Raymond Dunn gave the annual address. Trustees reported per capita costs of 16 dollars monthly and a year rise of 65 thousand dollars in the general fund. A $25,000 gift for a girls building was disclosed and a private donor funded the kindergarten equipment. Additional notes covered community finance plans in Kinston, Red Cross nursing in Guilford, and industrial counts in Charlotte.
Railroad and Brotherhood officials say the railway labor situation has quieted for the first time in three months. Many veteran organizers departing the Chicago zone expect no major disruptions, with others heading east where sympathy is weaker.
Former Postmaster J H Carter, after seven years in office, buys the Times Leader plant and plans The Renfro Record with first issue set for July 14. It will begin as a weekly and later become semi weekly to cover county news. Also reported Spencer conductor K L Fraley killed in yard accident after seven years with Southern Railway. survived by wife and young son.
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