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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
2
The Democratic County Ticket is approved by local voters at Hillsboro. State Auditor Dixon reviews around 800 pension applications, mostly soldiers of the fourth class and some widows, with deaths roughly balancing new claims. He expects fourth-class pensioners and widowers to receive about $20 annually, with warrants issued next December.
E W Goodloe of Waco Texas lives on Datton Street and credits Dr King's New Discovery for five years of good health. He formerly suffered a lingering cough that worsened for years, now gone. The remedy treats coughs influenza croup whooping cough and helps prevent pneumonia with a guaranteed bottle. Trial bottle free at Hayes Drugstore.
The New York Evening Post notes signs that China, once aroused from lethargy, may adopt modern methods with startling speed. Reports from the Shantung Railway show towns building near stations with American department stores, restaurant facilities, and new street paving. Tsunanfu has electric lights after years of restriction. factory chimneys rise as China modernizes, signaling a world-shock in store. Summer diarrhea in children urged prompt treatment with Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy followed by castor oil, endorsed by Rev. M. O. Stockland of Little Falls Minn. Sold by W. A. Hayes.
An old advertisement touts Bee's Laxative Cough Syrup with Honey and Tar as a remedy for heart, liver, and cold symptoms. It claims to act on the bowels to drive out the cold and clear the throat, chest, and lungs, and to strengthen mucous membranes, sold by Reynolds & Walker.
A brief devotional line attributes cleansing to Christ’s atonement and the Holy Spirit, citing Maclaren.
The proposed Orange Grove high school will be a top facility in the state with five recitation rooms on the ground floor and large auditorium and music rooms upstairs. It features a strong music department offering vocal and instrumental training, a business department, and a preparatory program. Principal Walter S. Crawford in Hillsboro, N C offers further information.
Mr. Charles Baldwin of Edwardsville Illinois reports chronic constipation and stomach troubles for years, improved after using Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Encourages others to try a package to get well and stay well. Price 25 cents. Samples free. For sale by W A Hayes, Druggist.
The English judge sets a good example by barring sketches of scenes in the divorce court. Courts and their proceedings should be kept from being exploited for popular amusement. Also noted are a mystery souvenir about keeping off periodic attacks of ambition and habitual constipation and a colonial sale report of North Carolina cotton at 13 cents per pound.
The list shows prices per unit for Wheat Corn Oats Meal Pork Bacon Flour Tallow Beeswax Butter Eggs Peas Beans Hides Chickens Feathers Wool Coffee Sugar and other country produce. Demand described as good with varied per unit rates across weighted weights.
A Kinston era notice extols Bingham School near Mebane NC with emphasis on staff discipline gym work penmanship religious influence and Bible study for boys. Also an ad for Manan piles remedy and a Valparaiso Associated Press dispatch notes a 2 000 death toll and up to 256 million in losses from an August earthquake.
A thrifty farmer teaches readiness for sudden showers as sunshine may fail. The piece warns that dysentery diarrhoea and cholera morbus can strike a household without warning. It recommends Cham berlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential for immediate treatment and notes sale by W A Hayes Druggist.
The farmers report the western part of the county has crops looking fine and likely to be among the best in years. Tobacco and corn are especially good and other farm products are growing well, with the outlook favoring an average or better year. A local ad notes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for facial vitality at 85 cents.
The Democratic gathering elected S. M. Gattis as chairman with predictions of party success in the approaching election and the nomination and election of William Jennings Bryan in 1908. Other officers were elected, delegates chosen, and rules suspended for nominations.
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