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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1915
Page
4
March honor roll notices list students from South Building with multiple grades named. Local items mention new residents, a theatre sale, a weather-felled ground, and upcoming community events including Easter closures and a Star Town High School play debut. The piece notes Passover timing and several church and school activities with community leaders and volunteers highlighted.
A hazy ad style note suggests using a mild laxative to ease chronic constipation. It mentions Deans Regulators at 25 cents a box and Electric Bitters as a spring tonic, implying outpatient patent medicine promotion in a 19th or early 20th century newspaper fragment.
A garbled warning describes the dangers of Galomel causing sickness and salivation when bilious. Mentions mercury and harmful contact with bile, cramps, headaches, dizziness, sour stomach, and possible death-like symptoms. Ends with a dubious guarantee of safe consumption.
Hickory society notes report a March 25 bridge party hosted by Mesdames Sherrill and Henderson with Mrs. E Bryan Jones winning a picture prize and Mrs. Geo Yoder taking the consolation salt and pepper shakers. A Paul Jones Club gathering on March 24 featured paneh and wafers. Dancing couples included Adelaide Johnson with John Aiken and Lenore Sourbeer with Rob Mattin among others. The Mozart Club enjoyed papers on Mozart with performances by several young musicians and refreshments. Adele Kirkpatrick hosted an Easter egg hunt for her Sunday School class on March 26, gifting candy rabbits and chickens. Master Louis Whitener marked his 13th birthday with a candy pulling.
Emma Bonner hosted the Do-As-You-Please Club with ten members and two visitors Adele Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Bob Ransom present. Two course refreshments were served before adjournment. The next gathering is planned with Miss Constance Bost.
Mrs B B Blackwether entertained a small group in honor of Miss Katherine Menzies on Friday evening at 7 30. The guests enjoyed rock games and a candy pulling, which proved the highlight of the evening.
A fragmented 19th century style ad touts Dr King’s New Life Blyinear for a sluggish liver and stomach relief. It promises to stop dizziness constipation and indigestion while clearing the blood and urges readers to obtain the remedy for 25 cents at local drug stores.
Mrs 4 11 and family express gratitude to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and many neighbors and friends for acts of kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of their beloved husband and father.
A mixed Southern Railway train 8 collided head on with a freight at Coddle Creek twenty miles north of Charlotte early today. Passenger T. W. Williams of Charlotte and two African American passengers were slightly injured. The crews leaped to safety, and N. M. Seagle spent several days at Davidson visiting his sister.
Fragmentary regional note describes a remedy claimed to relieve colds without dosing. The readable text mentions a product or salve and references price terms and brand-like words, but details are unclear.
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