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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
7
The Mount Airy News reports a mix of church events and social visits. Thanksgiving services at the het Church are announced, with revival continuing through the week. Local marriages and arrivals from Winston-Salem and Charlotte are noted among residents and visitors.
Neighbors helped Billy Key, a strong prohibition advocate living five miles north of Siloam, replace his burned barn and contents including a horse pin steer mowing machine and feed, contributing seventy five dollars. The fire was suspected to be arson. The report is from White Plains North Carolina with ceremony details for a marriage unrelated to the event.
A linen shower given by Miss Rose Bryan at Mrs. Frank Chamberlain’s home on Main Street honored Miss Jeannette Trotter. Guests enjoyed music by George, Thomas and Frank Woodruffe, solos by Mrs. John Nutt and Miss Lucy Brower, and a Broral Chorus. The dining room featured pink rib decorations and painted china. Miss Merritt was toasted as bride to be.
Wilbur McCann fatally wounded neighbor Lawson Caudle at a saw mill near Dobson North Carolina. The pair, with two women and liquor, argued late at night. McCann seized Caudle's gun and stabbed him five inches in the side. Caudle died days later after intestines protruded, doctors say earlier care might have saved him. McCann fled then was captured in Independence Virginia.
J L Harrison Co and W E Jackson and Co promote women hats dresses and shoes with discounted home made syrups by Ashcraft and Satterfield offering large sales. Advertisers promise prompt delivery groceries from red wagon and gray horse phon e 67 and mention private stock cigars and sample furs and coats in a busy early 20th century market page.
Mount Airy North Carolina November 3 1867 J D Minick promotes best domestic coal products including Pennsylvania Anthracite stove size claiming hot soot free fires Camel Coal for graves and economical stack for stoves. He urges payment to drivers upon delivery and notes limited immediate orders due to stock levels.
The notice lists eye examinations by Dr. Byrd and Dr. Wakefield at the Blue Ridge Inn on November 23 24 and 30 with free consultations. It also markets goods from Ashera W E Jackson and Co including wraps shoes coats and bargains while warning North State Bobbin Co claimants to file claims by December 1 or be barred from assets.
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