Queen Victoria Illness Sparks National Concern Document
The Range County Observer notes Queen Victoria is critically ill and the end may come any moment. The Durham Herald quotes a stance on reform for the insane if the Legislature cannot provide both. The Washington Post Almanac praises its 1901 edition with data on U S schools teachers and education spending. Senator Butler backs a bill to appoint another U S Judge for the Fourth District, North Carolina, with likely passage this session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham Herald
Butler
United States
North Carolina
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption Ad
A vintage advertisement urges sufferers with lung coughs and consumption to stay home. It touts Dr King's New Discovery as infallible for coughs colds and throat and lung diseases with relief from the first dose. Trial bottles are offered free at W A Hayes' drug store with a 50 cent and 1 dollar price and a guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
W. A. Hayes’ Drug Store
Torn by burning in Leavenworth lynching shocker
A Colorado style negro burning was replicated in Leavenworth Kansas where a man named Alexander accused of assault and murder was tortured tied to a railroad rail planted in the ground. The city center drew thousands of onlookers who later sought grisly relics of the atrocity.
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Colorado
Leavenworth
Kansas
Alexander
Mexican War Vet Seeks Pension Increase Over Remedy Ad
A veteran and editor endorses Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy claiming it helped his Mexican diarrhoea and affected pension increases. The ad cites safety and quick relief and promotes W A Hayes druggist in Wilmington Messenger. Chinese women suffer abuses by soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Mexico
Rale
W. A. Hayes
Wilmington Messenger
Sung Chow
Hell
Quay Elected to Fill Senate Vacancy in Pennsylvania
Col M S Quay, the regular Republican nominee, was elected by the Pennsylvania Legislature to fill the vacancy created by the expiration of his term on March 4, 1899.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col M.S. Quay
United States
Pennsylvania
Governor Aycock Address Praised. NC Mill Owners Propose Labor Pact
Governor Aycock's inaugural address receives praise including among colored citizens. North Carolina mill owners meet in Greensboro with 60 mill leaders representing over 100 mills to discuss work hours and child labor. A petition seeks to limit weekly hours to 66 from March 1 1901 and stop child labor under 12 during school terms, with exceptions for widows and disabled parents, and sets 10 as minimum working age. The pact urges Legislature not to pass new labor laws this session.
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North Carolina
Greensboro
N. C
Prominent Cuiiaco Woman Speaks On Remedy
Prof Roxa Tyler of Chicago Vice President Illinois Woman's Alliance endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. She recounts relief from a severe cold that threatened pneumonia and notes it was pleasant, effective, and saved a doctor bill. For sale by W A Hayes Druggist. The Post Office Appropriation bill totals 123,748,688 dollars.
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Roxa Tyler
Chicago
Illinois Woman's Alliance
Chamberlain
Pneumonis
W. A. Hayes
Prices for farm produce and goods in local market
Historical price list shows Wheat 75 cents per bushel, corn 50 cents, oats 50, pork 5 to 6 cents per pound, bacon 8 to 12½ cents, flour 4 to 5 dollars per barrel, butter 15 to 20 cents per pound, eggs 15 cents per dozen, peas 75 cents to 1 dollar per bushel, beans 1.50 to 1.75 dollars per bushel, hides 4 to 10 cents, chickens 10 to 25 cents each, wool and beeswax varied, sugar 5½ to 7 cents per pound, indicating strong demand for country produce.
Orange County Public School Report Highlights Funding and Staffing
County Superintendent John Thompson notes the 1.30 per child apportioned, the highest in years besides last year, and warns of a looming squeeze due to property and poll declines. White and black schools total 71 with funds unevenly drawn from property. depopulation shifts toward towns. teaching corps praised yet often paid late. He urges cash basis funding and waiting until July for apportionments. Also mentions local items: army recruiting at 2,000 monthly. hog weighing 430 pounds. Chamberlain tablets. Brown anticigarette bill. De Witt's Salve counterfeit warning.
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The
Observer
Orange County
Durham County
Onors
Rair
John Thompson
U. S. Army
de Win
W. A Hayes
Arch. Cates
New Hope
Chamberlain
W. A. Hayes
Senate
Brown
de Witt
Litleton Female College Notes Recital and Terms
Byron W King gave a well received recital in the college chapel praised as the best entertainment. Mrs King also read, with many calling her the finest female elocutionist heard. Exams begin soon and spring term starts January 29. The college hosts 149 boarding pupils, about thirty supported by work in the Industrial Department. Laundry plans advance with hopes to add a laundry building and involve students. A gasoline engine driven by an electric battery was added to aid woodworking and water pumping for the industrial work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byron W. King
Rhodes
The Mother's Favorite Medicine Ad and Local Notices
The ad promotes Chamberlain's Cough Kennedy claimed safe for children, free of opium, available from W. A. Hayes, Druggist. Also notes a Raleigh penitentiary execution bill advancement, De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve praised, warning against imitations, and Ex-Gov Russell joining Russell & Gore in the Allen building on Princess Street. Wilmington Star, January 18.
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Kennedy
W. A. Hayes
Raleigh
de Witt
Russell
Russell & Gore
Allen Building
Princess Street
Wilmington Star
Blood Purifier S S S Deemed Effective By User
An advertisement extols S S S as a tonic and blood purifier for cases with no external symptoms but with weakness poor digestion and emaciation. It claims to rebuild thin watery blood and improve overall vigor citing a testimonial from J F Duff of Princeton Missouri.
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J. F. Duff
Princeton, Mo
Estate of Susan D Ferrell Administrator Notice
Having qualified as Administrator of Susan D Ferrell deceased this is to notify all persons having claims against her estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before January 7 1902 or this notice will be pleaded in tar of their recovery and all persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment This 7th day of January 1901 W P Riley Administrator
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Susan D.ferrell
W. P. Riley
Tables Rates and General Inter tion
Apply to Ticket Agents for 4.0 This terse fragment references tables and rates and directs readers to ticket agents for a specific amount or service, but lacks full context or clear details about the event, location, or entities involved.
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Range County Observer
Hillsborough
N.gc
Joseph A. Harris
Queen Victoria
Washington Post
Wilmington Stars
TuHovusanns
Exi.e
Charlotte Observer
Sastori ZA
Cpt
Aycock
Samuel M. Gattis
Orange
State University
Cuiiaco
Bucklen
Board of Agriculture
Post Office
Hillsboro
Peat
Zellow
Nervita ‘Medical Co
On & Jackson Sts
Ill
Hillsboro Drug Co
Hillsboro, N.C
Johnstons Sarsaparilla
Michigan Drug Company
Detroit
Mich
Asc
Jordan Brothers
Caldwell Institute
Board of Commissioners of
W. A. Maddry
James M. Monk
James Laws, JR
J. John Laws
Board of Commissioners
John Laws
Clerk Board Co
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
South
Victor J. Evans & CO
Evans Building
Washington, D.C
Europe
Waite
Massachusetts
British American CO
Corcoran
U. S. Treasury
Washington, D. C
MRS. M. L. Taylor & Sister
Ornance
County Observer
Frank S Gannon
W. P
J.m.culp
Man S H Hardwick
Sian
Ee Pe Board
Henry Richy
F.C
Ae NASA
Dr. Gt
Rudwick
W. Graham
Oxford, N. c
Person
Durham and
Granville
Pato
Supreme Court
Sir Sattis
Hillsboro, N. c
John W.graham
Paul. C. Graham
Ranam & Graham
Attorneys-At-Law
Ala Gaswell
Durham, Granville
Hware L. Cooley, Mance
Undertaker
Spurgeon
Churton Street
el Parks & Hedgpeth’s
Illiam J. Miller
Caldwel Institute, N. C
Standard
All Pointe
Texas
California
Florida
Cuba
Porto Rico
R. L. Vernon
F. R. Daisy
T. Charlotte
Asheville
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