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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1911
Page
4
The Hickory Chamber of Commerce offers to help farmers sell land by compiling a concrete list of properties for sale. It urges listing through a real estate agent but will record descriptions and notify buyers by mail if inquiries arise. Also mentions cough remedy and local college notes.
The Wednesday Afternoon Book Club met with Mrs. E R Menzies on December 11. Eleven members answered roll call and shared quotations and current events. The group discussed Simon The Jester and William Locke, its English author touring America for research. A three course luncheon featured holly and mistletoe decor, a Santa center piece, and stockings on place cards. The next meeting will be with Miss Mary Munroe on January 11. A barn fire in Catawba township destroyed three horses, a survey, and other items. An advertisement features Dr King's New Discovery with testimonial healing for coughs and lung ailments. Dr. King’s medicine is promoted by C M Shuford, Moser & Luce, and Grimes Drag Co. Rev J D Mauney, former pastor at St Paul’s Lutheran Columbia SC, is to pastor St Andrew's Lutheran at Lenoir College and may conduct services at Mount Olive and the College Church.
Edna Eckard and Lafayette Benfield were married at the bride’s home by Rev. C L Miller in a ceremony witnessed by twenty five people. Guests then attended a wedding dinner and the couple planned a country and city honeymoon drive.
Ruth St Denis plans a new tapestry of dances inspired by ancient Egypt. She draws on religion and agricultural life along the Nile to shape stage movements, noting how river floods and priestly rites guided society and harvests.
A notice from Southern Subscription Agency Raleigh announces the sale of a house and lot in Catawba County known as Bob Tow at public auction on January Mth day in Hickory. The deed, bond conditions, and trustee C M Sherrill are named, with the property described by lot lines and adjacent parcels.
Dr. A C Dixon of Moody church Chicago, a Cleveland county native and famed preacher, is called to Spurgeon’s former church in London. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is advertised as an internal remedy claiming to purify blood and mucous surfaces.
Moser and Lutz Drug Store advertises ZEMO as a cure for eczema and related skin conditions. The ad claims one bottle relieves itching and may cure minor eczema, noting the product is sold in over 2000 towns by leading druggists and is a clean liquid external treatment.
Veteran recounts Gen Hoke aiding his troops in rain and danger. He recalls Plymouth desertion executions, Col Godwin striking a Yankee with a saber, and W. A. Propst’s Gettysburg endurance. Propst later wounded at Winchester and held at Camp Chase, Ohio.
A public notice by G. W. Sherrill, executor of the will of NH Lawrence, announces claims against the estate must be presented within the legally prescribed time. The notice directs all persons having claims to file promptly to recover their due rights and avoid malice.
Hoxsey surpassed the former altitude record by climbing to 1 474 feet in Los Angeles. The earlier record stood at 10 6. A stockyards fire in Chicago on December 22 killed the chief and 23 firemen.
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