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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1911
Page
2
A county minister, also a farmer, buried over thirty people in a single summer while tending his crops. He refused pay, turning down a dollar from a poor man for a funeral out of compassion and duty.
A Low Gap North Carolina letter dated June 27 1913 details mail mishandling of a 206 13 registered letter to Mt Airy and requests attorney J H Folger aid to pressure post office inspectors in Washington and remedy the delivery errors.
Beginning Monday the 10th and through the week, church committees will conduct an Every Member Canvass for church benevolences. A Union service will gather reports Sunday night the 16th at Centre Methodist Church, with a program to follow. All members and others are invited. chaired by I. Carter, executive committee member.
A letter urges all Farmers Union members in Surry County to attend the county meeting at Dobson on the 14th to clarify the organization s aims. It stresses that no member who misses meetings can advise intelligently and condemns critics who stay home.
Notice from Commanding officers announces an annual Confederate Veterans meeting in Washington on August 2 and 3. Veterans must submit names to attend and those seeking free entertainment should register two weeks before the event for housing arrangements. J. B. Paddison, Commander Surry County Camp.
Gov. Hoke Smith was inaugurated as Georgia governor in a session while the Legislature seeks a U. S. Senate successor to the late Clay. A. M. Terrell holds the temporary vacancy and is a candidate, as is Gov. Smith. The political maneuvering targets the upcoming election.
Raleigh July 4 Hon Henry Clay Brown long time member of the North Carolina Corporation Commission died this morning at 6:30 after a illness that grew worse since May 20 when he was last at his desk in the commission office He died of stomach cancer with speculation that a prior bout of typhoid fever may have left infection leading to his death
Greensboro July 3 The coroner's jury finds Mrs Ilda Hill was murdered not a suicide. It notes no guilty party and reports testimony suggesting death was not self inflicted. The verdict was delivered to the county commissioners.
An ad explains deafness stems from inflammation of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. It claims ear fullness leads to nerve damage if untreated and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for any case of deafness due to catarrh that cannot be cured.
In New Orleans Miss Jeannie KR Fisher who had been mute for two years after illness suddenly spoke again following a storm yesterday morning. Doctors from across the state and East had failed to help her and one physician called the case hopeless before a bright flash of lightning and thunder restored her voice, which returned to normal.
A fragment from a Louisiana ad praises King’s New Life Filia as a health necessity for every home. It claims the pills restore wellness where other remedies failed and urges readers to obtain them locally.
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