Mount Airy Union Promotes Temperance Crusade History
A brief history highlights the Mt. Airy Union formed in 1907 at the M. E. church with Elizabeth Moore as organizer and Mrs. W. C. Moore as first president. It recalls the Joseph A. Easter monument, anti cigarett law posters, support for state prohibition, and charitable deeds. The piece urges mothers to join, notes the White Ribbon program costing fifty cents yearly, and lists the next meeting at the M. E. church in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Airy
Johnson
The
Mount Airy
M. E. Church
Fanny O. Reynolds
Boy Sent Abroad for Fright Disease Fate
Eight year old Keith Tatlow of Oakland California is sent with his mother and Dr Marcus Newcomb from Burlington New Jersey to travel across the continent to seek treatment after a scare on Assiscunk Creek where a boat owner threatened to drown two youths. The child is described as dying of fright, a condition doctors call the disease. The voyage aims to save his life.
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Burlington, N. J
Keith Tatlow
J. Fletcher Tatlow
Oakland
Cal
Marcus Newcomb
Assiscunk Creek
Tatlow
California
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement and Chatham Lawsuit Update
A Mount Airy endorsement touts Doan's Kidney Pills as kidney remedies with a local contractor testifying to relief from back pains and boosted health. Separately, Mr. Paul Chatham reports a US circuit court ruling in his favor over a breach of contract case against James L. Dodge of the L. D. Johns Company regarding stock sales and commissions.
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Dean
Mount Airy
J. Phillips
Orchard St
Mt. Airy
N. C
Doan
Ashcraft Drug Co
All A 'Els ‘Su Centa
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Paul Chatham
Charlotte
James L. Dodge
L. D. Johns Company
Hazel
United States Circuit Court
Chatham
the Observer
Mr. Chatham
Orangeburg
N. Y
New York City
Alabama death pact law upheld in murder conviction
In Montgomery Alabama Justice McClellan outlined that if two men form a death by own action pact and one kills himself while the other survives the surviving party is guilty of murder. The Supreme Court threw out an appeal of Kebe McMahon who received life for murder after the partner died by self inflicted gunshot following a drinking pact.
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Montgomery
Ala
Dispatch
Alabama
Supreme Court
Justice McClellan
Kebe McMahon
McMahon
Sam Ashley
Ashter
Woman's Christian Temperance Union urges home protection
The article argues the home is threatened by alcohol cigars and drugs urging mothers to take a stand. It shares a Cleveland drummer tale where a father saves his son from drowning only to find the boy is his own child, later falling ill with typhoid and tuberculosis despite returning home.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Cleveland
Ohio
Mother and Co Advertises Austrian Remedy
Fragmentary ad copy touts a herbal remedy from Mother and Co promising relief from headache backache and fatigue. The note mentions a free sample and a simple claim of potency aimed at families and children.
Estate probate notice to creditors and claimants
Having qualified as executor with the will annexed of S. M. Patterson, all persons holding claims against the estate are notified to present them within 2 years. Those owing the estate should make immediate payment. The date referenced is May 16, 1919.
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S. M. Patterson
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