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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1906
Page
1
Local merchants promise a broad line of goods in every department aimed at town and nearby cities. They plan to travel to large markets to buy in bulk from manufacturers and offer the best prices, with full clothing, shoes, and dress goods selections. Customers are invited to browse, compare, and buy or simply view offerings without obligation.
W Q J C Webb and J 8S Spurgeon preside over the P C Collins Bank in Orange. The bank invites every man, woman and child in Orange County to open an account and offers time deposits at four percent interest. Deposits from $1.00 accepted and the bank positions itself as the financial information bureau for the county.
In a tale from Jeremiah Wilson’s family saga a cheerful, poverty hardened man seeks treasure with a horned keepsake while a cruel stepmother battles for wealth. A somnambulist daughter awakes to discover her father’s later will, and justice unfolds as Mary inherits all but a modest annuity after court proves the will and the girl’s sleepwalking act.
A strangely discovered will unveils years of misfortune for Wilson a New England manufacturer who rose from poverty to fortune. His daughter Mary Wilson faced harsh treatment from a new wife described as purse proud and cruel causing domestic strife after the stepmother’s arrival.
Witnesses describe a middle aged, respectable woman on a ferry who slipped a snuff box from her stocking and snuffed openly. A passerby exclaimed disbelief as the pungent odor spread, while she remained unconcerned and defiant.
Bishop Burgess dedicated a memorial organ at the Church of the Redeemer in Brooklyn and spoke on church music. He argued music reflects divine hearing and seeing, tracing its Biblical and historical role from Hebrew psalms to Gregorian chant and Lutheran hymnody. The sermon linked art, ethics, and worship, urging music that pleases God rather than mere human taste.
God gives songs in the night and affliction tests true faith. Any man can sing in daylight but true hymns arise only when divine inspiration touches the lips. Let us await the Maker’s tune and be merry for thanksgiving despite adversity.
The USDA reports success in growing a tangelo by plant marriage of a wiry Japanese orange with a Florida orange. The piece contrasts scientific miracles with spiritual miracles, noting daily transformations as people unite with Christ through faith.
The New Orleans Picayune argues that sufficient laws exist to punish any crime if they are properly enforced, urging stronger application of existing statutes.
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