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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1928
Page
5
A friend recalls living on milk for over a year and gaining weight daily. He suggests his method was like that of other babies. The note promotes a First National Pocket Book and a grocery promotion encouraging customers to bring a shopping list to see what items can be obtained from the store.
Col Ambrose Mills an early Rutherford County settler founded the Mills family in North Carolina. Born in 1722 in England, he faced captivity and battles with Loyalist forces, dying after 1780. His son William Mills, born 1746, supported Loyalist causes and helped shape Mills River and Mills Gap. The Mills family extended Methodist influence through Bishop Asbury visits and local minister Rev. Samuel Edney, with enduring frontier impact and a famed Edneyville name.
West of the Blue Ridge, on his lands, the gathering included Rutherford Henderson and Buncombe's most honored citizens connected with the Mills and Edney families making a notable social tie.
Ellenboro residents describe a July 9 picnic to Bridgewater and Morganton. The group toured Brisses Wilma and Sarah Byers, visited Prof. L. W. Cain, and returned by Marion. Attendees included Chivous Padgett, Sherman Padgett, William Padgett, Frank Hamrick, Xantippa Padgett, May Hamrick, Hermenia Hamrick, Lucy Wright, Maude Wright, and Kathleen Turner.
A Battle Creek physician touts constipation as a major misery and introduces Rexall Orderless tablets. The dose attracts water into the colon to soften waste and trigger a gentle natural movement without habit or increasing dose. Chew at night for a morning bowel movement. 24 for 25 cents at Rexall Drug Stores.
County Agent E S Millsaps reports a five acre wheat trial where 200 pounds per acre of nitrate of soda as a top-dressing produced dense, wind-blown stalks and heavy straw. North Carolina yields show potential gains from quick-acting nitrogen, with Randolph County historically high in wheat farming. Boll weevils and bean beetles threaten crops as farmers increase poultry supplies at Farmers Hard ware Co.
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