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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
2
An incomplete account describes a patient kept in a straight jacket for hours and subjected to rough handling by staff. It notes alleged brutality and a censor officer’s involvement after the patient’s return, including a later incident and deteriorating condition.
The letter from Bates in the army describes evictions at Eimer and a potato crop joke about Irish or white potatoes. He notes a $100 offer then a $267 gold amount found, and mentions guarding the dish more carefully. Bates has not seen a white or Irish to wines there, though many sweet potatoes are present. Two Boer troop incursions are reported in Cape Colony.
A tale of a firm promising a seven dollar weekly wage, with the protagonist rising to a ten thousand dollar firm position but enduring verbal terms. He contemplates fair pay versus distant gains, noting many boys would quit for more. Guilford County notes many divorces with about twenty cases in one court.
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