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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
2
The Orange County Observer of Hillsborough North Carolina lists Joseph A Harris as publisher and owner with publication noted as every Thursday. The item records its weekly newspaper status and identifies the publisher proprietor.
The Tux Onanche County Observer announces it will not publish next week marking its Christmas holiday as customary since its 1878 launch. The note extends season’s greetings and a prosperous New Year to readers, subscribers, and the public. A church commission discussion in Nashville covers a shared hymnal for North and South branches. Names circulate for North Carolina House Speaker, with S. M. Gattis of Hillsboro favored.
A Beall Mississippi reader reports that his wife suffered consumption last fall. After trying other remedies, she used Dr King’s New Discovery. Improvement began promptly and four bottles cured her completely. Guaranteed by W A Hayes, Druggist.
The New York World notes the Hundred-Year Club’s comfort from the 1900 census showing 33 762 Americans over ninety, including nine over 130 and eighty six over 120. It questions reliability, saying aside from one case the ages over 115 are all attributed to African Americans with dubious birth records and frequent age exaggeration.
How to prevent croup is shared with parents of small children. The early sign is hoarseness followed by a rough cough. Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at first hoarseness or after the cough appears. It is touted as reliable, pleasant, and safe, sold by W A Hayes Druggist.
The office displays a lemon weighing a pound and five ounces grown by Miss Penny Barnes of Saratoga Wilson county. It tops all previous entries in the lemon line from Florida and demonstrates North Carolina’s reach. Also notes cautions about cough medicines containing opiates and promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as safe. Public debt figure cited at end.
A man tries to clear a fence with a long running start but tires and rests in the shade. The text then shifts to claim the President has taken a long running start at the trusts.
A. H. Thames, coal operator of Buffalo C, writes of kidney and bladder trouble. After using Haley's Kidney Cure, he reports pain relief and claims it has done him a thousand dollars worth of good. Senator Pritchard notes shifts in party alignment in the South, predicting white men joining the Republican side.
A period ad extols Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the best remedy for burns cuts sores eczema and piles. It claims quick relief and promotes purchasing at W A Hayes drug store for 250.
An Ohio judge dismissed a case citing no state law banning praying for the sick. A Georgia judge then ruled there is no law to compel a parent to give a sick child medicine after a Christian Scientist refused to call a doctor and the child died.
A garbled complaint claims Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic lists its ingredients plainly as iron and quinine in a tasteless form. The text suggests a sales pitch or misuse of the product without clear context or dates.
A brief quip from the New York Times uses a barber with three little shavers as a joke about heredity, reflecting a light humor item in the paper.
J G Gluck superintendent of the Reform School at Pru nytown West Virginia reports Foley's Honey and Tar as the exclusive remedy after trying other medicines. A Wake County woman Hudla Mims pleads guilty in Raleigh Federal Court to illicit distilling and receives a 15 month penitentiary sentence in Nashville for operating a distillery at night.
Market report lists wholesale prices for Wheat Corn Oats Meal Pork Bacon Flour Tallow Beeswax Butter Eggs Peas Beans Hides Chickens Feathers Wool Coffee Sugar and general demand. Prices shown per bushel per weight and per pound with ranges. goods include country produce in good demand.
At her Hillsboys home midnight Saturday December 13 1902 Aggie Moore beloved friend and faithful servant dies of pneumonia. The notice praises her faithfulness and notes the season for stocking Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy with urging that it wards off colds and is safe for children. W A Hayes Druggist sells the remedy.
The American Tobacco Company and Imperial Tobacco Company of England have combined a few weeks ago. Competition on tobacco warehouse floors is effectively gone for the present and tobacco prices have fallen steadily, with further declines expected to near the actual cost of production under the union.
A patent medicine ad touts Electric Bitters as a cure all for nervousness sleeplessness and stomach upsets. It claims to tone the stomach regulate kidneys and bowels stimulate the liver and purify the blood with satisfaction guaranteed for 50 cents. The ad notes many saloons and dispensaries in North Carolina and a racial population comparison in 21 counties.
C. W. Lynch of Winchester Indiana reports his son suffered membranous croup and found relief after a single dose of Foley’s Honey and Tar. He urges others to refuse substitutes and thanks the product for saving his boy’s life.
A quirky quip opens this column followed by medical ads praising Foley's Honey and Tar and Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. W A Hayes promotes Foley's remedy and a Detroit man recommends Chamberlains tablets for appetite and digestion.
Henry L. Grant shot a ferocious wild cat five times near the Gee plantation four miles from Weldon, claiming four shots took effect. The beast, three times the size of a house cat, was described as having fiery eyes and defeating three dogs after wounding. This marks the second wild cat killed in the area, with a much larger one once caught in a steel trap.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills for dyspepsia dizziness headache liver and bowel troubles. It mentions a price of 250 at W A Hayes’ drug store and promises gentle yet thorough relief. The message then shifts to a political note urging better schools and roads to raise North Carolina’s standing among progressive states.
An advertisement extols Chamberlain’s Pain Balm as a superior plaster substitute for lame backs and pains in the side or chest. It claims deep seated muscular and rheumatic relief, sold by W. A. Hayes druggist in Patience in a Yonkers Statesman style testimonial dialogue.
Public record by D H Hamilton clerk details funds due on equity partition estates in Orange County. Lists heirs and estates including Heater Stadler Hester Wells Squires Tate Thompson Ray Clark Hastings Pearson Cole Canada McCauley Haith Atwater Horton Mann Walter Cook Sykes Ray Stadler Wells Jones Hester Manly Lloyd McCracken Sugg Turner Turner Turner Dodson Malloy Jenkins Johnson Sharp Sharp Compton etc with amounts and recipients across numerous estates.
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