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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
6
The Salisbury Post notes a Greensboro circulated rumor that ex-Congressman Kburn, facing recent reverses, is grooming to be the Republican candidate for Congress in the fifth district this year. Another rumor suggests influential Republicans aim to have Mr. Blackburn take a national post abroad.
The article lists students on the Honor Roll across grades with multiple recognitions and notes steady attendance. It credits teachers for dedication and praises overall enrollment figures and yearlong progress, mentioning specific names and terms like primary and high room enrollment.
Notice to creditors to present claims against the estate of John L. Worth with proper verification within the legal period or be barred from recovery. Executed this 14th day of January, 1908.
A fragment shows a patriotic school speech about Washington's birthday and a tattered Lydia E. Pinkham advertisement claiming the Vegetable Compound cures female complaints. The ad features Mrs. Lydia Pinkham inviting sick women to write for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
A record lists expenditures for burials in 1907 including names such as E G Everitt E W Sisk Martin H Jones Mary Smith Julia Moser Terry Moser Margaret Boone Rosacone Creed Matilde Dick and others totaling 775 00 with a remaining balance of 3 55 and an assessment due for W W Creasy. The Mt Airy notice is dated Feb 18 1908 and confirms charter validity and purposes of Harrison Mutual Burial Association along with a quoted price context for paint and a deed notice.
Coal consists of 80 to 95 percent carbon with mineral substances and ash. It forms from altered and hardened vegetable matter from ancient plants. Some coal contains trapped gas, with amounts varying by coal type. anthracite holds less gas than bituminous varieties.
D C Oneal of Surry County NC enters and lays claim to about 100 acres in Rockford township on Double Creek. Land borders J T Hancock W Doss Linzy Loftin and others. Vacant land described in entry dated February 3. Vestal Taylor, Entry Taker.
By deed of trust dated October 1 1906 G W Sneed and wife to J R Lewellyn trustee for S J Atkinson I will sell at public auction cash at the court house door in Dobson March 21 1908 at 1 PM the following tract in Surry County North Carolina beginning on Thomas Doss line and running North 18 chains to a stake then with the road to a Spanish oak in the fork thence South 15 chains to a stake thence East 8 chains to the beginning containing 1 acre more or less to satisfy the debt secured by said deed of trust R C Lewellyn Adm'r of J R Lewellyn dee'd trustee February 20 1908
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