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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1893
Page
2
Orange County items report the State Alliance convention set for August in Greensboro, railroad link completion between Wilmington and Newbern, and local election hints. Also noted are public notices, school convention plans in Hillsboro, and assorted North Carolina tidbits including a train incident and regional business updates.
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a universal remedy. It claims to cure liver and kidney diseases, clear pimples and boils, remove salt deposits, drive malaria from the system, and aid headaches and indigestion. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back, with price of 3100 per bottle at W. A. Hayes' Drugstore.
An advertisement touts PPV Blood Cure as an infallible purifier claimed to eliminate fire astringent diseases and visual ailments. It asserts past successes in Serotia and Sale Nheum and promises rapid results where others fail. The text warns of widespread harm from impure blood and praises the product as pleasant to take.
Market rates for Wheat Corn Oats Meal Bacon veal flour beeswax hens butter eggs dry hides green hides sassafras feathers wool sugar apples berries cherries peaches pears and related fruits. Prices given per bushel or pound with small unit figures. Prepare your producer market to command best price and cash.
Cedar Grove and Baynes Store played a closely contested baseball game at Cedar Grove grounds on Aug 1 03. Cedar Grove won 19 to 11 after a well managed umpiring performance by Mr Norrelson of Atlanta Ga. Baynes Store treated visiting players to a fine dinner and a large crowd witnessed orderly conduct. The note closes with thanks to Baynes Store Club and a reference to Simmons Liver Regulator as a remedy for malarial fever.
A repairer notice from N W Brown & Co Brown's Iron works seeks dried fruit buyers. It lists prices for apples peaches damsons plums cherries and notes damp sour fruit brings only bargain prices. The ad emphasizes cash payment and honest weighing.
UV virtue of a mortgage deed executed to James Webb and J C Webb by Albert F Johnson the property in Orange County is to be sold at the courthouse door Hillsboro on Monday August 28 a tract of fifty acres more or less adjoining J W Hawker Susan and others purchased at Og H Jordan. James Webb Jr and J C Webb mortgagees announce sale to satisfy mortgage. Is to be held under order of the Superior Court of Orange County by Wm Petty commissioner.
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