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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
6
The piece extols growing sweet potatoes for profit, noting high market prices and large potential plant sales. It cites a local grower contracting for 1.5 million plants and Missouri, Jersey types, with early planting tips and regional demand across the South. It also mentions related town news and local happenings.
The piece highlights corn cob pipes with fig stems as a Southern craft led by Mr. W. H. Powell in Statesville selling handmade pipes and fig-stem accessories. It notes regional potato farming in Maryland and Virginia Eastern Shore, with emphasis on small potato varieties, storage needs, and market dynamics for Southern and Northern trade.
William Monroe, a colored laborer, was instantly killed today at Sikes mill Seventy-First township Fayette County while operating a loom part of the machinery. The accident occurred as a piece of machinery suddenly flew to pieces.
A Chicago woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with saving her from a third surgery after two operations failed to help. She suffered inflammation and small tumors until the remedy restored her health, urging others to use the product to build up the feminine system and remove distressing symptoms.
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