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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1911
Page
4
The Panama Canal is three fourths completed with over three fourths of dirt removed. American workers, numbering thirty five thousand, push toward final stages amid feats of excavation and dredging, while noting health improvements and vast earthmoving achievements despite obstacles.
Woodville reports very dry weather hindering crop work. An ice cream supper last Saturday drew a large crowd with music and attractions planned at Wood's store next third Saturday night. Local visits include Minnes Necie and Rosa of Westfield and Misses Kizie Haymore Ida Hall of Shelotown. Mr J J Shaw found mineral on his property and sent samples to Raleigh for analysis. Mrs 4 8 Hollingsworth and Calvin Bingman improve after illness.
H B Martin of Port Harrelson recalls a near death twenty one years ago from consumption and a dreadful cough. After failing various treatments in Georgetown Ohio a friend urged King's New Discovery for the throat and lungs. He then used it and was cured, crediting the medicine for his recovery.
A testimonial from Morton J. Hill of Lebanon describes rapid relief from inflammatory rheumatism after using Detchon’s Kell ret. The account mentions his wife suffered swollen muscles and joints, bedridden for six weeks, without benefit from other doctors before trying the remedy.
A Gaffney South Carolina Ledger letter calls for banning the public opening of caskets at church funerals. The writer, denouncing the practice as barbaric and ghoulish, urges churches and undertakers to end it and protect the sacredness of death.
A newspaper advertisement promotes Doan's Pills sold by FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY as sole national agents with the price at 50 cents. The slogan urges customers to remember the name and buy Doan's only.
North Wilkesboro area reports a novel surgical method by Mr Claue Gentry after he performed an operation on a chicken. He has acquired a 30 acre chicken farm near North Wilkesboro on Fairplains road. A Plymouth Rock hen overate oats in the store room causing a bloated craw. he made an incision removed over a pint of oats and closed the wound.
A newspaper letter laments crowds jostling to view dead bodies and gossiping afterwards. It argues the minister and undertaker must halt the exhibition, as the public would support such a stop, despite a feared breach of custom.
September 30 1911 advertisement invites readers to Let Your Ideas and Wishes Be Known. J H Wood D P A Asheville NC and R H DeBaré-Chari present a campaign for Southern Railway tourism highlighting perfect year round climate. The note touts spring and summer as ideal in the region.
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