25 Feb 1897
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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1897
Page
1
The piece blends philosophical reflections on the afterlife with scattered North Carolina notes. It recounts deathbed visions, a rural river crossing memory, and a Confederate-era tone of religious hope alongside brief state updates on pardons, legislation, and local incidents.
A letter from Michard Harding Davin to a New York paper recounts the execution of a young prisoner of war by Spanish troops near Havana. The boy, son of a Cuban farmer, was tied and shot at dawn as prisone rs were periodically executed at Santa Clara, with bodies left until carts removed them.
In North Carolina February 16 the Senate debates a 99 year railway lease with Governor Russell named promoter. Arguments center on whether railways or the people own the line as lawmakers warn of political peril for opponents. House measures seek free transport, penalties in county courts, and new duties for railway representatives.
An ad copy touts Hood’s Sar saparilla as a purifier for impure blood from confinement and promotes Hood’s Pills as a reliable liver remedy. It also notes a preacher praised for his sermons yet seen smoking, and reports a Vermont mail carrier to receive $16 for four years.
An old advertisement claims Electric Bitters alleviate loss of appetite constipation headaches faint spells and nerves. It promises strength and tone to organs with a guarantee of relief, urging purchase at Taylor and Banner's Drug Store.
The North Carolina legislature held a lengthy session debating the annulment of the North Carolina railroad lease amid committee reports and hostile parties. A reform school for white and colored youth offenders was advanced with support from multiple senators and a second reading approval.
The Atlanta Constitution notes Prince Michael Hilkoff says once the vast Siberian rail project is done a 32 day world tour becomes possible. Current circuits take over two months. The line spans some 7500 miles and will reshape world commerce and Russia's mercantile power.
Mr C P McLain of Acworth Georgia reports his wife suffered bilious colic and indigestion for years. After trying medicines and doctors with little lasting effect she used Royal Germetuer years ago and found it gave her more relief than anything else. He invites readers to write The Atlanta Chemical Co for a free 48 page information book and mentions a large bottle package of 108 doses available through Taylor & Banner.
Recent statistics uphold the Friends Society reputation for long life. Of all members who died last year in Great Britain and Ireland aged from 1 to 101, the average age at death was 60 years 6 months and 19 days.
A Lebanon Pennsylvania family survived six months on potatoes until the death of a young girl from convulsions linked to eating an apple. Separately a cabbage carload departed Greenville Florida bound for New York, loaded at McIntosh, twenty miles south of Gainesville.
An old advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as an honest medicine that cures when others fail and urges readers to take it now. The copy emphasizes reliability and effectiveness in a period tone.
A boy about 10 years old fell from a backward moving railroad car near Salisbury’s depot Wednesday night. The body suffered severe injuries with the head severed and run over, brains found nearby, and a fragment showing a lifelike facial expression. The onlookers described the gruesome scene in detail.
The advertisement lists water and steam fittings and a wide tinware stock. It notes reliable supplies such as Jenkins Globe Valves Eberman injectors Detroit lubricators and mentions repair services for guns pistols sewing machines and bicycles by skilled workers. It also promotes coffee pots and dish pans and a general range of tinware items.
An advertisement extols King's Royal Germetter as a pleasant refreshing universal medicine for men and women of all ages, claiming it to be the greatest of all medical remedies in every condition.
A promotional claim highlights benefits promising appetite, restful sleep, improved digestion, boosted nervous energy, kidney balance, purified blood, and transformed weakness into strength, aimed at restoring overall health. The text emphasizes a single remedy delivering multiple systemic improvements.
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