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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1897
Page
2
Fragments from the Orange County Observer discuss lynching rhetoric and state attitudes, with excerpts from the North Carolina Farmers State Alliance on August 15th. The piece condemns or questions capital punishment by mob violence and notes rising distilleries amid religious life in North Carolina. It cites Dr King’s New Discovery advert and tobacco worm damage affecting crops.
Consul General Lee reports the relief fund for destitute Americans in Cuba is nearly exhausted. The Farmers Alliance declines in North Carolina with members dropping from over 100,000. Rutherford County seeks bids for poor relief and tax collection contracts to the lowest bidder on the first Monday in September. The US pension roll nears one million with LOL new pensions and STL restorations this year. old age and disease reduce the lists.
The Southern Railway Company employs thousands in its repair shops and operates a large rolling stock fleet including freight cars and passenger coaches. A mix of local advertisements and notices discusses products from medicines to salves while reporting a fatal accident involving Miss Lovie Dixon.
A historical price list shows Wheat at 75 cents per bushel, Corn 35 cents, Oats 30 cents, Meal 5 cents, Pork 4 to 5 cents, Bacon 7 to 11 cents, Flour 4.10 to 8.00 dollars per barrel, Tallow 4 cents, Wax 20 cents, Butter 14 cents, Peas and Beans priced by bushel or barrel, Hides dry 3 to 6 cents, Chickens up to 20 cents, Feathers and Wool varied by weight, Sugars listed at 8 to 8 cents per pound, and assorted farm goods noted with unit prices.
Under authority of mortgages from W G Robson to Henry Malone and to Thomas R Cole, parcels of land totaling about One Hundred and Six Acres, including the former Robson home tract on waters creek and a New Hope Burrows tract, with a storehouse and lot, will be sold at Hillsboro courthouse on September 6 7 7, cash. Also a separate sale of parcels in Durham County under a court decree of Lucy L MoreheadExecutrix on September 4 12 o'clock noon, the first tract eight acres and more on the North Carolina Rail Road land, with cash or property as reserved.
P B Weare of the North American Transportation Company recalls the Klondike region as a place where some prosper. Bridget, his former cook, returns in stylish dress to claim a prosperous future after revealing she earned 125 dollars at fifty miles up the Yukon and wi ll head to Europe with a Kerry-brogue mate and mine earnings.
A Warren County commissioner faces fugitive charges over seduction while the county chairman in Vance is bound over on a five hundred dollar bribe solicitation. Halifax orders attract speculative buyers as critics claim Democrats once ensured prompt payments for two decades.
Veteran Henry Steinberger of Allentown recounts long standing chronic diarrhoea since 1862 as a private in 167th Pennsylvania Volunteers. After trying many medicines a friend’s sample led to a 50 cent purchase of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and he credits it with complete cure. Sold by W A Hayes Druggist.
The Charlotte Observer reports wheat prices reaching an eighty eight and one eighth cents high. It suggests the market could rise toward one dollar as recent strides indicate a possible reversal from its current level. Cotton shows similar ten cent shifts in outlook.
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