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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
7
A collage of consumer remedies, travel offers, and medical claims spans Lydia E Pinkham folklore, Cascaweet diet products, and Dean's Regulates laxative. Plus a Havana tour, corn expo, and local drugstore ads tout cures for rheumatism indigestion and kidney ills with period tone and regional prices.
Public auction of the S. Y. May property in Hickory is set for January 9, 1909. Commissioners H Yount and E B Cue will sell the two story dwelling at the corner of Twelfth Avenue, Lot No 48, beginning at a stake North of the NE corner, per a superior court partition proceeding.
A reader reports a threatening sign posted in a field warning that any person or animal entering the oats patch will have its tail cut off. The message proclaims the writer as a Christian man upset about loose livestock and promises swift action.
A couple tells of rising from near poverty to success, buying a small farm and building a good home with a growing family. The husband proclaims he is the head of the family, and the wife adds she is the neck that moves the head, confirming his claims.
An excerpt from The Robesonian of Lumberton condemns unsigned letters to newspapers and urges readers to value informed communications. The ad promotes DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills, claiming they ease backache and rheumatic pains caused by weak kidneys, with a 50 cent size sold locally by C. M. Shnford and Walter S. Martin.
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