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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1894
Page
2
The Hillsborough paper notes Christmas break with no issue next week and wishes readers a Merry Christmas. It comments on a proposed reformatory for youthful criminals and reports on national economic data, Civil Service expansion, cotton and agriculture trends, and a joke anecdote about blood impurities and a patent medicine.
Hillsboro area firms promote a Christmas tree sale for Sunday schools. The Hillsboro Bookstore advertises the largest assortment of Xmas woods in town with a 20 percent discount on bills totaling up to five dollars for participating Sunday Schools.
Fragmented ledger style list of names and payments tied to Alamance County poorhouse and jail accounts. Mentions expenditures for jail work, outside poor, supplies, attendance, and various authorities like commissioners and sheriffs. Also references later items on state cases and a sale of land notice in Hillsboro.
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