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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
3
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Wealthy tobacco man M D Bailey Jr of Winston Salem travels to Waycross Georgia to pursue Charles Goddard over an elopement with Bailey's wife. Bailey had Goddard arrested after the Baltimore ceremony and asserts threats of blackmail and demands for money amid calls to annul the marriage.
A protest to President Roosevelt by the American Tumane society cites government figures showing 1,945,000 cattle and 1,290,000 sheep died from exposure in the year to March 31. Descriptions depict animals starving and freezing on snowbound plains from December to April, stressed by the cruelty of the trade.
A Idaho producer touts fantastical wheat and lard yields claiming 222 bushels per acre and eleven pounds per head of Alaska wheat, aiming to boost interest in a bogus “crooked stick” yarn. Skeptics question authenticity as newspapers label it a daring fraud and push for real evidence.
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Public sale on January 6, 1960, on the premises to satisfy a $600 note plus interest secured by a deed of trust from Geo W Sparger and Jessie G Sparger to B Sparger, transferred to F B Royster Guano Co. The land lies east of W T Purvis lot on Oak Street near Mag Moore, excluding the J M Doss parcel. trustee M H Sparver announces sale per court record in Surry County North Carolina.
An order from the Superior Court of Surry County in the case John L. Worth v E H H, Wrean administrator of Wm. Cobson and others, directs a sale to the highest bidder at the Dobson courthouse door on January 4 18__ for a tract of land in Surry County bounded on the north by EB Jarrel and others, with adjacent properties to the west and east.
Having qualified as administrator of the estate of E A Dolly, all persons owing said estate and all persons with claims against it are notified to come forward within one year from November 7. This notice warns that after the period elapses, claims will be barred from the record.
Mrs M McRaney of Prentiss describes three months of kidney trouble and no hope until she began taking Kidney Remedy. She says she felt new and urges other suffering women to try the remedy as told by J H Gwyn.
Having qualified as Admin the estate of J B Smith notify all persons having claims at the nature of said debit them to the and before the 25th day of Nov 1908 notice will be plead in bar if recovery All persons indebted contact T W Folger Atty J J Stone Adl 1908 Nov 25
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