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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1910
Page
1
A Vera Grayson Gazette opinion urges caution for readers considering westward relocation. It warns middle aged movers face adapting to new farm tech, weather, and economies, warning that money alone cannot buy happiness and recounts a Virginia migrant's unhappy years and stark western hardships.
Concord reports electrician W T Brinegar killed instantly at Locke cotton mill while wiring the main panel. He had worked two weeks there, from Salisbury, and was 36, widower with three children. He died when touching a wall or pipe while on a scaffold, voltage 2300, his left hand burned. Body sent to Rowan and Davie counties for burial.
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A partial OCR note praises Dr King’s New Life Pills as easy and effective for the family. The fragment mentions use at home and claims positive results across the household. however the text is garbled and missing context.
Mr B F Kelley of gfield Hi describes years of kidney and bladder trouble with headaches and backache. After taking Foley’s Kidney Pills his condition improves and his health is restored.
A young plumber and tinner, FP G Allison, burned alive when a gasoline burner exploded on the McBrayer hotel dome in Forest City. He freed himself from flames, descended to ground, but died early Monday in Rutherfordton hospital. Separately, fifty-eight cotton mills across several counties agreed to shut down for four weeks in July and August to curb a market slump, idling 7,000,000 spindles and removing one million pounds of yarn weekly.
In Allentown on June 23 Squire James A Miller ordered a probe of a well after water tasted like gasoline. Sylvester Leiby descended 50 feet with a lantern, causing a massive blast that hurled a half ton of rock. William A Miller and Clinton E Leiby were badly burned, Leiby’s life saved by a rope backup.
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