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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1924
Page
4
The text appears as a damaged or partial classified item listing contact numbers for Leonard's Jewelry Store. It notes two phone lines labeled Office and Residence, implying a small business notice or ad fragment without additional context or addresses.
Hyman L. Lederman a Maiden Mase real estate man is named beneficiary of a $300,000 estate held by an elderly woman he met when an assistant manager at a hotel where she was a guest. He receives $100,000 in cash and the remaining $200,000 only after marriage as he seeks a wife.
Advertises Chamberlain’s Tablets as a remedy for digestive troubles including gassy stomachism torpid liver and constipation. Claims they stimulate the entire intestinal tract to healthy activity and maintain that state, linking it to overall attractiveness and vigor.
Trustee Edw M Linville announces sale of land in Surry County North Carolina to satisfy a debt of 845 40 plus interest and costs. The deed to Phoebe Hancock Atkins dated May 25 1923 secured the note and the property is described by bounds along John Leitch H Born Mrs Walker Frank Woodruff Valentine DePalma Jess Goins and others. Sale to be conducted at public auction for cash on May 31 1924 in front of Mount Airy according to the deed in book 71 page 520.
Skowhegan Maine resident Mrs Percy W Biemanneon reports relief from fatigue headaches and daily weariness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims the product has helped many women over fifty years and notes it is sold by druggists nationwide.
Atlanta leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South issue a joint statement led by Bishops Candler Denny Darling ton Ainaworth and Dicky opposing a proposed unification with the northern church. They warn the plan fails to reduce conflict, preserves northern influence, and threatens southern conference powers and property rights.
The Mount Airy Town Board directs real estate owners on Kerner Street to curb and pave sidewalks to specified five foot width using granolithic material with grade set by the Street Foreman. Costs are charged by frontage, town funds cover 2 cents per foot for curbing, and noncompliant owners may have work done by the town after notice with liens as provided by law. Work to be inspected by Street Commissioners and Civil Engineer. dated June 10, 1924.
Storms and heat in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys over 24 hours ended tonight killed more than twelve people and injured or prostrated many more. Property losses exceed two million dollars with northern Illinois southeastern Wisconsin and northern Indiana hit hardest by wind hail and rain. Ohio and Michigan reported fourteen heat related deaths later in the day.
An early edition of The News arrives at Creed's Book Store each week, placed on sale immediately after it leaves the press.
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