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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1906
Page
5
Weather interrupted a Saturday lot sale on Shell street in Southeast Hickory. The forecast promises no rain next Saturday, so the remainder will be sold. Purchasers may resell, and a drawing for a free lot will occur at the sale. Free carriages will transport attendees to the grounds.
The Catawba Camp veterans meet at 1 p m to decide 1906 reunion details. They vote to hold it in Newton on the usual date, August 18, with the option to choose Newton or Hickory for 1907. A guest speaker, Major Jas A Weston, is noted and a comprehensive committee is appointed to govern next year’s activities.
Editor Locke sells the Lenoir Topic to Prof. W. M. Moore who will take charge immediately. Moore previously served as local editor of the Topic and is welcomed by the Democrat. A Sunday school excursion by the Reform and Methodist groups traveled to Edgemont on Thursday the 12th with five cars full of passengers. the return train arrived about 9 p.m. and attendees enjoyed the mountain scenery.
A crowd of young men prepares to leave next Monday for a wagon trip to Blowing Rock Linville Falls Grandfather Mountain and other spots. Members include James Shuford Hugh Miller Carroll Best Joe Murphy Oran Sigman Hazel Aiken with more to join. Miss Nina Ramsay returns from Wadesboro and Charlotte. Presbyterian Sunday school enjoyed an ice cream supper at Claremont College with a playful quip about two saucers.
An old newspaper ad extols Hollster's Rocky Mountain Tea, claiming it brings laughter and tears, cures diseases, and drives away fears. It lists price at 35 cents for tea or tablets, credited to EB Menzies.
Ten year old Jennie Duncan of Haynesville Me. is hopeful to live a full century. She credits Electric Bitters with curing chronic dyspepsia of twenty years and restoring strength. The tonic claims to aid stomach liver and blood disorders and general debility. Sold with guarantee at C M Shuford and J E B Henzies drugstore for 50 cents.
The undersigned will offer for sale for cash to the highest bidder from the steps of the First National Bank, Hickory, on the first day of September, 1906, two lots of land in Catawba County adjoining the lands of Whitener and others and Henry's Fork River. The lands will be sold as described by Peter B. Yoder of Hickory North Carolina.
Mrs Mary Brown of 20 Lafayette Place Poughkeepsie New York advocates Dr Kings New Life Bills as the most reliable pleasant laxative for stomach liver and bowels. Guaranteed by C Ke Shulord and B Menzies drug begis25o.
J W Coulter of Leslie South Dakota, assessor of Stanley county, says a lung trouble and persistent cough forced him to try Dr King s New Discovery. He reports relief soon followed and a permanent cure, adding no other medicine compares. Each bottle guaranteed at local druggists C M Shuford and E B Menzies. Trial bottle offered.
913 acres in Amelia county near Richmond with 200 acres cultivated 75 acres of rich bottom land balance timbered 12 room 8 story dwelling stock and tobacco barns near post office school and church springs and creeks good for stock grain and tobacco farm price ten dollars per acre on easy terms request new farm catalogue from M T Hickman Hudson North Carolina includes ad copy and filler lines about Rocky Mountain Tea.
Mrs. Grant Shy of Springfield Illinois endorses Bucklen's Amica Salve for cuts wounds burns and skin eruptions calling it an absolute housekeeping necessity. Druggists guarantee 25 cents. Allen's Foot-Ease relieves corns bunions and sweating feet with a free sample offered by Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York.
The notice seeks lumber quantities including 175,000 inch flooring and 450,000 inches of 3x18 16 inch lengths, 500,000 of 4x8 16 foot lengths, 1,500 pieces 8x14 121 inch long, and 1,000 pieces 10x16 25 inch long. Delivery planned over the next six months. For more information contact J. W. Cannon in Concord, North Carolina.
The Brooklyn Home for Consumptives touts disinfection as crucial in preventing consumption. A statement from the president highlights the use of Plat Obloridas to curb germs among patients and staff in the institution. One nurse has served ten years there, with several cases noted.
The narrative outlines the thirteenth annual session starting September 20, 1906 at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College. It notes course offerings, tuition details, dormitory boarding, and applications due by July 15. Contact Charles D. McIver in Greensboro for information as well as invitations for donations and staff hiring matters.
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