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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1908
Page
7
Mt Airy residents see travel schedules and trips as families plan visits to Kernersville Greensboro and Fries. Local church preaching by Rev D Vance Price, a Graded School opening, and Senator Overman’s address mark civic life. Marriages, a bank sale, real estate auctions, and many visits from and to Danville Greensboro and Raleigh fill the week.
A Union District cotton mill president, who asked not to be named, rejected two paint offers. He chose a 1.25 dollar gallon, noting the 1.30 option was full and adulterated by 18 to 45 percent with bensine and other defects. He warns Devoe as cost efficient by house and year, not per gallon.
Blanche Hines announces her music school will open September fourteenth and asks for continued patronage. Pupils will receive piano and voice training by approved methods. Also promotes dress goods line at J L Harrison Co. and lists sale of nine week old pigs at $3 each from Co W Fritklin Route 3 Airy NC.
Classified notices advertise sourwood comb honey in 25 and 76 lb cans at 16 cents per pound F O B Elkin North Carolina. Also Italian bees for sale with good yields, a cow for sale four years old and producing two and a half gallons daily, and a flood of local merchandise from J Harrison Co Ashcraft's Drug Store and Miss Earp agency for Stevens and Bros. Chicago outfits.
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