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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1901
Page
3
Local notes cover subscription costs in advance, advertising rates per square, and office hours. News items include Hillsboro’s inauguration mention, rental ad for Presbyterian manse, social updates, lost item, ship sinking near San Francisco, court case continuance, and local advertisements for music and remedies.
University officials from the Legislature visited on Monday and Wednesday, impressed by the institution’s work and funding needs. Kilgore gave a talk on food value and safety in Gerrard Hall, Washington's Birthday was celebrated by literary societies, and a Mecklenburg Alumni delegation toured the campus with speeches by Venable, Whitehead Klutiz, Clarkson, Willson, and Tompkins. Donations to Soldiers' Home Hospital from Hillsboro Daughters of the Confederacy included multiple items and cash.
Ten thousand pounds of baled hay free from broom straw and briars offered by William B Meares in Hillsboro North Carolina. Also notices including sale of valuable property by Frank Nash as commissioner and various local ads for patent medicines and a 1901 Burlington marriage announcement. A jury failed to agree in the Long versus North Carolina Railroad Company case over a fatality at University Station.
By authority from a mortgage deed recorded in Orange County, a tract of Cedar Grove township land of 58 acres on the Eno River will be sold for cash at the court house door in Hillsboro on Monday March 18 1901. Boundaries include James M. Scott R L Walker Marion Hesse and land once owned by William Warren. This 18th day of February 1901. Ss M. Gatris Adm’r de bonis non cum testamento annexo of Thomas McCracken.
Casti and Hatt of Myrtle Lodge No 111 Knights of Pythias Hillsboro NC proclaim resolutions of respect for James Webb Jr who died January 81 1901 in Poughkeepsie NY. The lodge notes his promise and faithfulness as a Pythian Knight and pledges to publish and forward copies to the family and authorities while preserving the record in lodge minutes.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No Care no Pay. Price 25 cents. Board of County Commissioners to meet next Monday March 4. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets boast refunds if unsatisfied. Music offers at Orion Music Co Philadelphia Pa. State Reformatory bill would purchase Alliance Shoe Factory near Sillsboro with land for a farm. Society of the Cincinnati met at Raleigh February 22 electing two new members. fund over 5 000 dollars. monuments to Generals Nash and Davidson to be memorialized. annual session July 4 at Hillsboro where the Society began in 17838.
A brief dialogue notes a wary exchange between an old lawyer and a young one. The young lawyer says he has one client and the elder asks if he is wealthy, to which the youth replies that the client "was" wealthy, implying past fortune and perhaps current decline.
Announcement of a twenty five dollar prize for former students who write a historical North Carolina paper. Conditions include at least one year at the college, typwritten manuscript under 2000 words, April 1901 submission to Miss Mary Tivoin Greensboro, and a sealed envelope with real name. Judges will consider originality research and literary merit.
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