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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1909
Page
5
Sunday visits and travels across Newton Lenoir Gastonia Hickory and Morganton reported. Bets on Easter events, theatre drafts, hires and resignations, and a horse sale with price. Obituary note for Mrs E S Aiken and community reminders.
Regular services are planned for next Sunday. Dr Henry Louis Smith president of Davidson College is invited to speak on April 18 and deliver a lecture on Mars on Saturday night as well as speak on Sunday. An election of elders and deacons will be held at eleven o'clock that day. Father notice will be given.
A satirical poem extols a man who shuns trade and advertising, seeking quiet repose and self sufficiency. It contrasts his lifestyle with a world of commerce, ending with an inscription claiming the grave of the man who refused to advertise. An unrelated note about a lost fountain pen and an old cough syrup adends the fragment.
A fragment from a period ad style page extols twilight as a time for peacemaking and promotes Kennedy's Taxative Cough Syrup for palatable relief of coughs with no opiates. It lists local druggists selling Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation. The prose urges self-examination at night and quotes Spirit Lake physician L. H. Farnham.
An advertisement extols Chamberlain's Salve as an effective remedy for burns chapped hands and sore nipples. It claims instant pain relief and scarless healing for minor injuries, priced at 25 cents and sold by W. S. Martin & Co. The copy closes with a prosaic proverb about knowledge.
A call to bring job printing to the Democrat office promises better quality and reliable service. The notice emphasizes professional standards and timely delivery for local needs and campaigns.
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