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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1898
Page
3
Local notices list real estate sales, auctions, tax deadlines, and public announcements. Advertisements promote cures, medicines, and goods from W A Hayes and Brown & Co, with community updates about church events and clergy, in Hillsboro and surrounding counties.
Mr Charles M F Taylor died at his mother's residence on February 11 in his 25th year leaving a widow and infant son. Funeral held February 12 at 3 PM at the Methodist church with Rev J M Terrell and Rev HS Bradshaw officiating. Pallbearers listed and interment in the family lot at the new cemetery. Also includes short moral excerpts on kind words and a bookstore notice seeking 5,000 secondhand public school books and exchange offers from Hillsboro Bookstore run by Nate W Brown.
A fragmented Chicago News snippet shows a classroom exchange about aging and personal life, featuring lines about baldness age and a Bright Pupil asking whether a man is married or single. The garbled text preserves few clear details.
Letters from M W Moore A J Gordon and A L Holden defend county debt strategy clarifying aims to retire 8 percent notes and high interest orders. They argue borrowing to pay off floating debt rather than increase overall Orange County obligations.
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