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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
2
The Hickory Democrat lists post office rate as second class matter. It outlines terms of subscription and advertising rates, including transient accents an inch and pricing details for young contacts.
The Hickory newspaper urges broader support for a city band with a new band stand at the park and Saturday concerts to draw shoppers and aid merchants. It discusses issuing highway bonds more accessibly, urges a city auditorium, and calls for improved literacy, a stronger Chamber, a welcoming Hickory Club, and balanced use of mail order shopping.
A moral exhortation argues that clothes, horses, or money do not make a gentleman. True gentility comes from being true, manly, honorable, neat, civil, courteous, and, above all, fearing God and keeping His commandments. Wealth or status cannot define a gentleman.
A traveling man in a smoking car demanded whiskey from a sudden intruder from the next coach. A woman in the other car fainted as a dozen flasks appeared. The man chose the largest bottle, drank deeply, then remarked the drink did him a lot of good, claiming it pleased him to see a woman faint.
A rugged note mocks weather prophets from the Weather Bureau to Taft era forecasts. It recalls a harsh snowstorm and blizzard seen as Noah's day, then jokes about removing coats in May after a train trip to Charlotte. The piece ends with a Prairie/Rhamkatte Roast sentiment embracing the ground hog as sole predictor.
Farmers and mechanics frequently meet with minor injuries that slow work. Apply Chamberlain's Liniment at once to speed healing and reduce swelling. The liniment guards against blood poisoning if used before inflammation. W. S. Martin sells it. The Lenoir Topic recently published a Caldwell county supplement detailing local industries with illustrations and praise for the town and paper.
This old promotional note touts Chamberlain's Colic Sholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as inexpensive and effective. It claims one or no doses will relieve an attack and notes usual price of 25 cents, sold by W S Martin & Co.
M. L. Rosewald, accused of forging receipts to defraud about $1,000 in a Charlotte education scheme, was captured in Hickory after a plainclothes Charlotte officer and Chief Jones found him at the station. He rode in from Connelly Springs, taken into custody after a pulmonary hearing, remanded to jail on a $2,000 bond.
Representative Burton likens a sleepy town to Squash, recalling a humorous Hot Springs dinner. A visitor asks how long a haircut will take, the barber wakes, and calls his wife to fetch scissors from the newspaper office, hinting at the editor's timing.
About a hundred North Carolina editors are in Hendersonville this week as the state association meets. They arrived by special train and were greeted by Mayor R. H. Staton and M. L. Shipman. The program centers on business sessions with leisure trips to Laurel Park Lake Toxaway Mt. Hebron and a Gates Hotel ball. Speakers discuss editor topics and officers are elected. Local attendees include W. E. Holbrook The Hickory Democrat Rev J. L. Murphy and W. M. Moore.
A confrontation between Peter Buff and Frank Burnett near Rollins Burke County ended with Buff seriously cut by Burnett using a knife after Buff attacked with a club. Buff was bleeding and bedridden, Burnett fled toward Henriettta, authorities unlikely to arrest soon. A Charleston earthquake anecdote and a Country Life Commission critique of southern farming rounds out the report.
Advertisements tout Champerlain Stomach and Liver Tablets as miraculous cures for stomach troubles after a man spent over two thousand dollars on other medicines. Also notes Burdock Blood Bitters to improve blood, and Dean's Ointment for skin issues. Local notices mention Fourth of July plans in Lenoir and a river dredging project by Lincoln and Catawba counties with costs of 5000 and 1000 dollars.
Greensboro firm offers flexible ladders and platforms for fire escapes. New state law requires public buildings to be equipped with fire escapes. For price details contact W H Hall in Hickory NC.
A local ad states payment of ten dollars per card for first class sickery logs up to 31 to 2 feet long, to be delivered before July 10. After that date price drops to three shillings per card. Ivy and Hice.
The Democrat's advertisers claim they provide genuine bargains for buyers. They emphasize value and savings across the goods offered in the paper.
A fragment notes a warning not to misdiagnose backache and claims cure depends on knowing the cause, urging readers to identify the true reason rather than assume relief. The piece hints at medical advice from local Hickory context and cautions against false cures.
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