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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1900
Page
3
A scanned Hillsboro area page includes train schedules and rates, court and jail notes, local government meeting notice for September 3, and various obituaries and ads. It also reports war news from abroad, a moralizing health column, letters remaining, and a grand excursion to Asheville with a transport timetable.
At Raleigh a meeting of the North Carolina Association of Confederate Veterans reelected Gen Jalian So Carr as Major General of the North Carolina Division United Confederate Veterans. The hospital at the Soldiers Home in Raleigh was to be completed in October but lacked funds for furniture. Gen Carr offered to cover all costs to equip it so it could open promptly. Also noted is a promotion of generosity by Carr toward fellow veterans. In other local items a Oregon boy reports quick relief from diarrhea using Chamberlains remedy. and a Deep River township marriage increases the Farrington household by twenty one children as a blended family forms after Mr Farrington, a widower with 11 children, marries Mrs Hayworth, a widow with 10 children.
3500 Reward! Pills claim to cure Liver Complaint Dyspepsia Sick Headache Indigestion Constipation and Cetastiveness. Boxes of 100 Pills or 40 Pills and 15 Pails sold by Nervita Medical Co Chicago. Also Hillsboro Drug Co Hillsboro NC sells Nevita remedies. Mrs Taylor and Sister offer trimmed millinery at reduced prices with bargains on hats bonnets caps before stock sells out.
Property sale notice offers George Fawcette’s three mile west Hillsboro tract for sale with flexible terms to suit purchaser. Includes address and contact J Jones for details.
The trader announces a sale of a valuable tract near Hillsboro Orange County known as the Cain tract. The 150 acres lie north by Lew Lockhart and Jackson Crattres east by Monroe wood Garrard south by Maria dh tffevs and O Cates, west by John Hittoway and Sackser Crattvree. Terms: one third cash, one third in 6 months, one third in 2 months with 6 percent interest. sale on July 30, 1900.
For sale or rent a well improved farm with tobacco barns and a dwelling known as the H. Ved and a Y. Waris farm at Caldwell Institute. The property will sell cheap or rent for wages or a portion of crop. For particulars call on.
The page runs a mixed docket of campaign notices for J. S. Carr for Senator, college recruitment pitches for W. R. Smith's College in Lexington, and local auction sales. It includes public notices from Orange County Sheriff style sales, and brief items on drought, weather, and various local business promotions. Multiple named entities appear, including J. S. Carr, Durham, Lexington, W. R. Smith's College, Henry Richards, and Orange County arc.
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