Railroads and banks under NC Corporation Commission report
The 11th annual NC Corporation Commission report notes railroad mileage and new lines, passenger and freight figures for 1909, and a drop in casualties. It records 21 new state banks bringing total to 321, with bank closures affecting two banks but no depositor losses. It lists corporate assessments across industries and a medical note on croup bellows.
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Atlantic Coast, Line Railroad
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Southern Railway
Norfolk and Soutern Railway
Tacnes
Caendar
Bank of Carteret
Morehead City
Citizens Bank and Trust Company
Southern Pines
Commission
Monument to the Women of the Confederacy Call to North Carolina
The United Daughters of the Confederacy appeal to North Carolina Daughters to support erecting a monument honoring the women of the Confederacy. Fannie Ransom Williams, president of the NC Division, urges nationwide chapters and individuals to fund and plan the memorial, commemorating mothers and grandmothers who aided the war effort, with a Call to united action dated September 7, 1910, Newton, NC.
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United Confederate Veterans
Con Federacy
Old North Star
U. D.C
Confederacy
Daughters of
North Carolina
Fannie Ransom Williams
N. C
U. D.C. Newton
N.C
Rexall Hair Tonic boasts bold baldness remedy claims
The Rexall Store guarantees three large trials of Rexall 90 Hair Tonic with a personal guarantee, promising satisfaction or a full refund. The ad asserts the tonic can regrow hair on most balding heads except when roots are dead and scalp glazed, selling two sizes for 50 cents and $1 through Grimes Drug Co.
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Rexall
Jean
Grimes
Drug Co
Drawing Buchheit’s Power At Catawba College Newton
President Buckheit’s teaching and influence attract students from distant places. Names listed include Charles Thompson Williamsport Pa Noth A Fravce Toms Brook Pa Miss Mary P Miller Lancaster Pa Parl W Reinhardt Phila Pa fy Leslie G Limroth Camden N Josie T Parodi Ayacuche Peru South America
Captain of Industry and the Wireless Pioneer
A profile from Everybody's Magazine highlights a captain of industry who invented the mower and reaper, served in the President's Cabinet as a British spy, and later pursued support in France for the United States. The figure is described as a steel magnet and a pioneer of wireless telegraphy during the Spanish American War, also headed the Steel Trust.
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France
U.S
America
Steal Trust
Everybody’s Magazine
Doan's Kidney Pills Touted as Kidney Remedy
Frontier ad urges readers to treat kidney disorders with Doan's Kidney Pills. It cites Mrs. C. L. Harvin of Hickory North Carolina praising relief after trial and promotes purchase at Moser and Lutz's Drug Store. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY is listed as US agents with the slogan Remember the name Doan's take no other.
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Grimes “Drug Co
Dean
Hickory
C. L. Harvin
W. Railroad St
N. C
Moser ‘& Lutz
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan
Real estate listings in Catawba County with multiple parcels
A wide array of properties in Catawba County areas including Maiden Hickory Newton and Hildebran. Listings show houses on various sized lots from 16 to 85x300 feet, farms of 35 acres, timber land, and vacant parcels with prices from 1 000 to 8 500 dollars. Terms include cash down and 1 2 or 3 year financing at 6 percent. The Pony Real Estate Company and M. R. Rudisill & Co. appear as agents with varied offerings and exchange options.
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Broom
West Hickory
Longview
Rodis
Hickory
Edgar Whitener
Newton
Killian Witherspoon
The
Pony Real Estate Company
R. E. Nall
Hildebran
M. R. Rudisill & Co
P. E. Coulter
J. Edgar Poag
Banks
Hickory Democrat
100 Million Dollars Worth of Shoes
The South spends a hundred million dollars on shoes yearly, with three quarters of that money leaving the region. Buy The Craddock Shoe made in the South by white labor for Southern gentlemen. Priced at $3.50 to $4.00, it keeps money in the South to support labor, grocers, bakers, and local industries.
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Craddock Shoes
Taft and Income Tax Clash Shapes Supreme Court Choice
The piece argues Taft should appoint Justice Harlan to Chief Justice if the income tax provision in the Payne Aldrich tariff is upheld. It notes Fuller’s death, calls for new justices, and links tax legality to industrial life, Standard Oil, and the Tobacco Trust with January hearings looming.
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Washington
Tate
Supreme Court of the United States
Fuller
Standard Oil Co
Tobacco Trust
Congress
Harlan
Taft
Supreme Court
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