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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1902
Page
4
A collection of short items and jokes from a 1900 era page notes humorous anecdotes about German audiences, bridge ban talk, and various ads. It includes a Busch tale about an Americanized brewer in Germany, then quick jabs at politicians, patent medicines, and medical quackery alongside local notices and product pitches.
A Boston Transcript poem by Sara G. Small expresses duty in the market place. It urges lifting burdens on the weak through honest work and steadfast labor. The speaker links women's traditional roles with enduring strength and compassion.
In Green County, Sheriff Bill Ockerson and Judge Chet Higgins dominate Sandstone with fear and violence. A staged well explosion intended to destroy illegal activity backfires, killing Ockerson and a German worker, while a sheepman Henry Etling is implicated. Doc Peterson defers blame to the two officials as the town reels from the tragedy and a sheriff judge alliance crumbles.
Good Housekeeping notes hot water can aid indigestion when used carefully but warns against excess. Very hot water can scorch the tongue and palate and worsen digestion. The stomach works best when ingested food is near normal body temperature, avoiding repeated scalding exposure to gastric glands.
A report describes a Boer made boot pair found on the veldt near Mafeking. The uppers are shapely, leather is pliable, and the soles are hard. Eyelets were removed from an old boot. telegraph wire pieces were used to fix the sole, riveted inside and out.
Letters from Mrs Esther M. Milner of DeGraff Ohio and Miss Mamie Groth Platteville Wisconsin praise Peruna for relief from chronic female weakness headaches backache and overall illness. Dr S B Hartman of The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio offers free advice and promises guidance to readers not deriving prompt results with Peruna.
Judge Stark recalls a drought year tale in Washington cloakroom chatter about land scarcity and a farmer who traded 160 acres for a horse and wagon. He notes a Dutch neighbor could not read, so the deed carried away the entire parcel. The speaker ends with a warning that those who think they outpace God are outdated.
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