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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1905
Page
2
The Hillsboro column reports on Morehead City through car service from Winston-Salem, with summer ticket deals and travel details. It cites medical guidance urging castor oil and Cholera remedies for bowel trouble in children and notes 1500 underage workers in North Carolina cotton mills, mostly girls.
In Cumberland Maryland Geo A Eyler recounts his 11 month old daughter’s declining health with serious trouble and two doctors giving up. After four bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for L onsamption Coughs and Colds she recovered fully. Trial bottle free at W A Hayes Drugstore 50c and 1.00 guaranteed.
In a Salisbury Sun reminiscence the editor criticizes papers that avoid whiskey ads yet run Bill Fife content. He argues against the gnat camel test of hypocrisy, insisting advertising decisions are private matters and not the paper's affair.
Mr. Obe Witmer, a leading druggist in Joplin Missouri, endorses Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as unmatched for bowel complaints. He states there is nothing on the market equal to this patent medicine and that they sell and recommend it. For sale by W A Hayes Druggist.
The Greensboro census returns a population of twenty-one thousand, excluding factory villages but likely including suburbs and beyond corporate limits, reflecting significant local growth.
Advertisement urges against consumption the so called white plague and touts Foley's Honey and Tar as safe and certain in curing coughs and colds. It warns against unknown preparations and lists W A Hayes as the local druggist selling Foley's product.
Robert R. Watts of Salem Missouri says kidney disease plagued him for five years until Foley's Kidney Care. He reports losing flesh and failing health before using the product and claims to be fully cured after more than two bottles.
J D Runyan of Butlerville Indiana describes a mysterious disappearance of his symptoms including indigestion and biliousness and endorses Dr King s New Life Pills as a perfect remedy. The ad promotes guarantees at W A Hayes Drugstore for 25 cents. A government crop report notes current corn wheat tobacco and rice conditions above ten year average. An herbal product claims to wash without rubbing off and features Rocky Mountain Tea from W A Hayes.
Weekly Hillsboro market report lists prices for wheat corn oats meal pork bacon flour tallow beeswax butter eggs peas beans hides chickens feathers wool coffee sugar and other country produce in good demand with varied per unit rates across commodities.
A North Carolina notice praises the Bingham School near Mebane for friendly discipline, teachers earning student respect, and teachers joining in sports as companions. A free catalogue is available by writing Preston Lewis Gray, B.L., Mébzie, N.C.
An eclipse viewing note explains the event on the 31st will occur just after sunrise and may be invisible to many in the city. A patient letter praises Foley's Kidney Cure from W. A. Hayes for kidney trouble, claiming four years of symptom disappearance. A humorous tip pitches Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for a peaceful mother-in-law.
Reported prevailing view that peace talks have collapsed as both sides refuse to yield. Analysts say pressure could be used to push Japan toward moderating its demands.
Fi at Rock resident Bedell reports arnica salve heals ulcers sores and cancers as a top dressing for burns and scalds at 25 cents a jar from W A Hayes Drugstore. Also notes first North Carolina cotton bale at Morven weighed 775 pounds selling for 10.55. Chamberlains tablets praised for bilious and dyspeptic sufferers with digestion benefits. A Hillsboro court summons warns Clyde Cheek to appear Sept 16, 1905 over goods sold and unpaid.
The list names West Vernon Tr P A Charlotte ae J H Wood D P A Asheville H Hardwick Passenger traffic Manager Washington W H Taylor General Passenger Agent Washington DC in a transportation notice.
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