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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1904
Page
2
In Raleigh the State Poultry Show will be the largest yet, with Virginia birds featured. The Orange County speaker urges farmers to attend, stressing poultry and egg value over cotton. Also noted are the Soldiers' Home committee meeting reports, current operations, and planned cottage additions to boost capacity.
Beall Mississippi reports wife cured of consumption after using Dr King's New Discovery. He states she improved after trying other remedies and finished four bottles. The drug is guaranteed by local pharmacist with trial bottles offered.
Governor Aycock departs office with a strong educational record and a reputation for reform. His successor, R. B. Glenn, is trusted to continue the work and uphold the achievements in North Carolina education, earning confidence from the people.
Winchester Indiana citizen C W Lynch reports his son suffered severe membranous croup and found relief after one dose of Foley's Honey and Tar. He credits the product with saving his boy's life and urges others to avoid substitutes.
The article notes the Roosevelt inauguration will be a grand national event with the District of Columbia funding 60,000 for the pageant. It highlights government support for military features and predicts a memorable display, while a playful aside references cultural flirtation with Rocky Mountain Tea.
The Atlanta Constitution notes leap year remains a recurring topic with a month left in the cycle and plenty of affordable humor on the bargain counter. It praises the harmless, innocent subject that fuels conversation and even jokes for one year in four.
A Buffalo Ohio coal operator A H Thurnes reports kidney and bladder relief after using Foley's Kidney Cure. He says the medicine began removing brick dust like stones and he now feels like a new man, claiming it did him a thousand dollars worth of good. Dr Supan cites world population at 1.503 billion with Asia holding 820 million.
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a universal remedy for nervousness sleeplessness and stomach upsets claiming it tones the stomach regulates kidneys and bowels stimulates the liver and clarifies the blood. The pitch promises quick relief and guarantees satisfaction from W A Hayes Druggist.
Naval budgets show next fiscal year at 114 330 638 dollars while Hillsboro merchants promote fall and winter millinery styles with hats veils and trimmings. Market prices list wheat corn oats meal pork bacon flour tallow beeswax butter eggs peas beans hides chickens live geese wool coffee sugar and country produce. Local ads promise prompt out of town service and newest fashions for all ages.
The item lists four grand Southern staples braneh water persimmons watermelons and chick ens as defying trusts and monopoly. It notes several candidates for Speaker of the next state House with Judge Graham of Oxford seen as leading. A Raleigh Times remark recounts an Ohio mayor allegedly forcing idle Black men to support themselves, followed by a marriage license surge, linking street loafing to fortification like Port Arthur.
A panicked horse runs through the street, occupants dumped. The ad extols Backlen's Arnica Salve for burns cuts sores eczema and piles and notes availability at W. A. Hayes' Drug Store.
The December issue of The Christmas Delineator offers festive fashion pages and color illustrated Love Songs from Wagner operas. It features a Washington society piece The Court Circles of the Republic and short stories by noted authors.
J. G. Gluck superintendent of Po nytown West Virginia Reform School endorses Foley's Honey and Tar as the most effective and harmless cough medicine after trying all others. D. Jones confirms.
The Durham Herald notes President Roosevelt plans to appoint a grandson of General Stonewall Jackson as a cadet at West Point. The paper also comments on farming uncertainties from alternating cotton and tobacco crops and urges higher meat and bread consumption. It highlights Booth-Tucker’s Salvation Army article on Christmas charity in the December Woman’s Home Companion.
The article notes global letter and newspaper mail totals thirty two billion five hundred million pieces with eight billion five hundred million through U S mails. It cites seventy five thousand post offices five hundred thousand miles of routes and annual travel five hundred million miles costs over one hundred fifty million dollars a year. Receipts nearly cover expenditures having doubled in ten years. It mentions rural free delivery serving one seventh of the United States population and a 1860 receipts figure of eight million dollars. An ad follows for Aldillister's Rocky Mountain Tea at 85 cents.
The Pittsburg Pennsylvania Union veterans extend an invitation to Gen Joseph Wheeler to address their camp with a large sum of money offered as inducement. Wheeler replies he will come only if unpaid, saying he cannot accept pay for talking to Civil War veterans. The Florence-based commentary notes such sentiment among old time Southerners.
Governor Aycock praised state prosperity while the Wake County Register of Deeds reported a surge in mortgage cancellations and rising sales of farm lands. Farmers are buying more lands as old mortgages are paid off, signaling strong agricultural and land markets.
In the next Legislature Republicans gain two seats one in the House and one in the Senate. The 75th Annual Session of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina convened in Elizabeth City on Wednesday December 7 at 7 30 p m. The State pension warrants totaling 204 000 will be issued December 15 by Auditor Dixon, with many returns due to beneficiary deaths.
C D Jones warns during coughs and colds season that Foley's Honey and Tar is a dangerous lung remedy. He claims it can cause serious outcomes and urges caution against its use.
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