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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
2
Notice indicates mail item entered at the Mount Airy North Carolina Post Office as second class matter. It records the classification and origin within the local postal listing.
The article reviews Mount Airy’s progress over three years, noting new homes on Main Street, major buildings like the Banner Building, growing industries from furniture to granite quarrying, a revived tobacco market, expanded farm trade, a new graded school, improved sidewalks, and stronger newspapers The News and The Leader report rising circulation and revenue while calling for better school attendance and compulsion to educate the children.
The town kept a cash system under panic, led by Geo D Fawcett of the First National Bank, preventing damaging script issuance. Banks supplied hard cash for tobacco and other needs, boosting credit and trust, with tobacco markets now returning to cash sales and price stability as growers face steady demand.
An old advertisement announces a one hundred dollar reward for a cure of catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from Iaey & Co of Toledo Ohio. It touts F. J. Cheney as trustworthy with 15 years in business and claims the remedy acts on blood and mucous surfaces.
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