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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
1
The P C Collins Bank in Orange invites every man, woman and child to open an account. Officers W J C Webb and J S Spurgeon announce the bank’s conservative policy and its role as a Financial Bureau of Information for Orange County. Four percent interest is paid on time deposits from $1.00 up.
Rev. W J Thompson preached on life’s duties using warp and woof to describe enduring faith and changing church life at Brooklyn’s Simpson M E Church on its sixty first anniversary. He urged love, fearlessness, sympathy, and action aligned with Christ’s example and challenged readers to live righteously beyond mere words.
Randall recounts a perilous trek with the Anglo-African Company, including a rhinoceros charge, a perilous shelf escape above a sunbaked cliff, and a leopard confrontation at a haunted butte. He survives through nerve and a leap into a cave, then returns to camp with wary respect for the place.
In Detroit a Tribune note remarks on the open door policy as the Anglo Japanese alliance influences China and the tone hints at cautious optimism. The exchange about a sail adds a domestic flavor to the era’s diplomatic chatter.
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