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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1909
Page
3
Davidson farmers push discussion on road bonds and a special road tax after a Mecklenburg visit. The Dispatch plans a similar trip for Davie and Yadkin counties to study roads and advocate a bond election.
In Fayetteville the Thratt family awoke between 1 and 2 am to a burning shingle dropping on Oliver Thratt’s hand. They escaped as the roof collapsed. Neighbors housed and clothed them. The 600 policy burned with the house expired at noon that day.
The Supreme Court granted North Carolina leave to file an original bill to delimit the boundary with Tennessee at the Tennessee River crossing. In Salisbury, John Ridgeway, a blacksmith, collects $20,000 from his brother William Ridgeway’s estate in Alabama. the brothers came from England in 1884 and had been apart since.
Washington reports new Senate committee assignments for North Carolina. Senator Overman joins the Conservation of National Resources committee. Senator Simmons moves to the Finance Committee to fill Teller’s vacancy overseeing revenue taxation and banking matters.
The Robert F. Hoke Chapter UCV of Salisbury will unveil a Civil War monument on May 8. The shaft on Innis Street marks eight years of effort by the chapter and an elaborate program is planned for the event.
The dispatch reports Theodore Roosevelt's planned visit to Mombasa, with preparations underway for a grand welcome. A record herd of thirty-two lions was seen on the Nandi Plateau, and Roosevelt declines a license enabling unlimited hunting, sticking to the standard quotas.
Captain A J Smiley, claimed Boer war veteran, says Roosevelt’s planned hunting grounds are a vast game preserve where lions are gun shy. He recalls hunting there and asserts the Duke of Manchester’s party would fail to bag game. Smiley advised Roosevelt to seek elephants in Africa.
In Messina the general in command estimates about 60,000 bodies still await burial beneath rubble from collapsed houses. Debris clearing proceeds slowly with bad weather hindering progress. Only about 200 bodies are buried daily when work lasts twelve hours. Often a week passes without any exhumations as rain turns debris to mud. The government keeps details secret and pressed to resume broader burial efforts.
Brooklyn sermon outlines seven feminine traits and behaviors. Abbott urges simplicity in dress and shoes, avoidance of cosmetic paints, independence from fashion houses, non Paris dictated styles, a beautified home as center, and industrious sympathetic motherly character. He argues modern life links to partnership with men and shared household duties.
The body of Vladimir Tarasoff, about thirty, was found locked inside a trunk in a Rome boarding house after a suspected twenty three days. Medical exam says he was drugged and suffocated. Two Russians visited him before his disappearance, identity remains uncertain.
The Civil Service Commission in Trenton received its first removal request from a South Jersey oyster grower accusing a watchman of nearsightedness. He claims the watchman cannot do the job and suspects the man of failing to see theft by the grower’s own relatives. The watchman denies the accusation, calling it sarcasm.
A poem about a child named Chloe Amabel and imaginative play at night. Then a detailed description of indoor marble games including Ten-Block Count, Switcing-Block Count, Arched-Board Count, and Circle Game with rules, setup, and scoring.
A child named Polly bakes a saucer pie for her birthday and hosts a party with neighbors, sharing a tale of a blue saucer pie. The page also features children’s riddles about everyday objects and a cat named Coonie with endearing antics.
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