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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
4
A Delineator piece advises a young woman facing competition for a fiancé not to falter. It warns about the test of character and the risk of losing him to another girl, urging trust until doubt is proven and stressing the value of motherhood and self-respect.
A May Delineator article promotes women organizing for progress including appointing a public nurse, lighting streets, paving sidewalks, cleaning streets, removing tramps with woodpiles, ending child labor, closing immoral theaters, beautifying street boxes, protecting trees by underground wiring, and keeping garbage boxes clean to create healthy, safe towns.
A Superior Court order directs a public sale on May 6 1908 at 1 PM of approximately 94 acres in Surry County adjoining G W Iver J A Haynes Josephine Joyce and John Joyce B T Gillespie and Thomas Badgett. Terms: one third cash one third in twelve months and the remainder in two years with note and security. Also at same time household items and kitchen ware are to be sold.
Ready to use pile remedy comes in collapsible tube with attached applicator. One application provides itching relief for piles. Price 50. Sold by J. W. Mepherson and Co.
A defense witness dodges questions about a four to five year old event. The plaintiff’s counsel pushes for recollection while the witness claims poor memory and an inability to recall thoughts at the time. The cross examiner urges the witness to state current thoughts on past impressions.
A swamp near Ben Cary’s home harbors large swarms of mosquitoes. Neighbors urge extermination but Cary demurs noting a $32 cost for window screening already spent and fearing loss of his newly secured protection.
A New Yorker three year old rides with her father on a Sixth Avenue L train. The child slips from his knee, stands in the aisle, and grasps a strap held high as her father urges the lesson to get used to it.
An old advertisement touts Kenneyd’s Laxative Cough Syrup described as tasting nearly like cod and maple sugar. It claims to relieve cough without constipation, purging the cold through gentle bowel action and acting as a laxative cough syrup.
Statements from Birmingham and Colorado Springs residents praise Cooper's medicine for indigestion and stomach issues. One man reports swift relief after a week, another notes improved digestion and mucus clearance after a week of use. Ashcraft Drug Co. promotes the remedies.
By virtue of a deed of trust dated October 17 1904 Wil ogee references and a 360.00 note to Leander O Neal the trustee W F Carter will sell at public auction on a specified day in 1908 at one o clock the described tract in Surry County adjoining Granite City Land Improvement Company and J D Smith including the house to satisfy the remaining balance.
A March 7 1908 notice recommends a gentle laxative for children noting it eases bronchial cough and expels phlegm. It is guaranteed and sold by J W Mcpherson and Co.
Notice records a land entry in Surry County by Takery of Sersy Coun and others on the waters of Michells River adjoining lands of Spee Morgan Cockerham and others, with Vestal Taylor as Entry Taker. Dated March 14, 1908.
Having qualified as executor of J. B. Jackson deceased late of Surry County North Carolina this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 6th day of March 1909 or this notice will be plead in that of their recovery All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment Me K R Smith Ex of J B Jackson Deceased This Feb 28th 1968
By virtue of a legal uses action the court will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at the courthouse door Monday April 20 at 2 o clock M Creek Shoals Feechhins the W H Schaub mill tract containing fifty acres with mill site dwelling outbuildings and fertile grassy creek bottom land. Title is good. Commissioners Lindsay Patterson W Holcomb March 5 1908.
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