Timetable and local notices from Hillsboro area
The pane couNTY OBSERVER from Hillsboro North Carolina dated January 28, 1994 lists railway timetables for Southern Railway Co effective Nov 29, 1903 with west bound and east bound schedules, local freight arrivals, and connections. It includes notices about local visits, a county commissioners meeting, ads for goods, and various residents' activities in Hillsboro and nearby towns.
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Southern Railway Co
Raleigh
Asboro
Hillsboro
North Carolina Da Exercises Report From Orange County School
An observer prints a vivid account of neglected Orange County schools, detailing a teacher and eight pupils cleaning a logschool, widening to include a library effort, a new map, and a Christmas program. The piece also notes a jail escape involving Gene Edwards and others, with changes in local jail staff.
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The
Observer
Mies Kesie Walker
North Carolina
St. Mary's
Hillaboro
Orange County
Sterling Browning
Domestic Troubles and King Pills at Hayed Drug Store
A brief 19th century style notice touts Dr. King’s New Life Pills as remedies for stomach and liver troubles. The ad claims the pills relieve and cure ailments and lists a price of 250 at W. A. Hayed Drug Store.
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Dr. King
W. A. Hayed
Memorandum Book Lost in Hillsboro December 23 1903
A memoranda book containing a $20 bill and two $10 bills was lost in Hillsboro on Wednesday December 23 1903. The finder is asked to contact J. W. Daniel R F D No 2 Hillsboro NC, with hopes of a reward. Also notes Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets offered locally and J Clyde Creek’s visit from Thomasville NC to Hillsboro to see his parents.
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Hilleboro
J. W. Daniel
Hilleboro, N. C
Bilious
Chamberlain
W. A. Hayes
J. Clyde Creek
Hillsboro
Thomasville
N C
James A. Cheek
Castoria and Beara advertisement fragment
Fragmentary OCR text advertising Castoria products and a subscribe offer for the Orange Court, mentioning a price of one dollar and six months with five cents. The readable items include product names and a due monetary offer, but the source text is garbled and partial.
Foley's Honey and Tar Promises Quick Grippe Relief
A letter from Roy Kemp of Anola Ind praises Foley's Honey and Tar as the sole cure after four weeks in bed with la grippe. The ad urges readers to avoid substitutes, claims rapid relief, and notes area agents and bookstore promotions alongside local notices and travel fare highlights from the Frisco System.
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Roy Kemp
Angola
Ind
la Grippe
Foley
W. A. Hayes
Winter Millinery Arrives with New Fall Styles
Mrs. M. L. Taylor & Sister announce new stock of fall and winter millinery for ladies and children. The catalogue features hats, bonnets, ribbons, feathers, trimmings, notions, dress trimmings, jewelry, tab belts and shirt waist sets. Public invited to inspect. mail orders receive immediate attention.
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WRS
M. L. Taylor & Sister
Local notices of property transfers and personal updates
Diats in Rear Kerare reports that Noble purchased a residence from Mrs Mary Hayes on East King Street for 250 and moved his family in. Samuel T Smith sold his storehouse and lot at King and Churton to S E Cole for 1000. Cole plans alterations and to move in stock. Carl Forrest of Greensboro visited and spent Sunday with his father T Forrest in Elando then returned to Greensboro for a job with J W Scott & Co. Shriecer's Indian Vermituge marketed to expel worms in children and adults, 25 cents a bottle, W A Hayes druggist. The Hillboro ad touts Buster Brown in the New York Sunday Herald, sold locally by Arthur W Ray. James Webb and wife returned from Texas with James Webb’s brother John Cox Webb of Alabama. health decline noted.
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D. M. Ferry & Co
Detroit
Michigan
Eva Rosemond
C. E. Pleasants
Aberdeen
N. C
Craig
Reidsville
New Hope Church
Parish’s
Nellie Glasvock
Nathan W. Brown
Greensboro
Noble
Mary Hayes
Carl Forrest
Eland
T. Forrest
J. W. Scott & Co
Shricer
W. A. Hayes
Hevék
Buster Brown
New York Sunday Herald
Herald
People’s Representative News
Hillsboro
Arthur W. Ray
James Webb
Texas
Coughs Cured by Foley's Honey and Tar Ad
Convicts from Hillsboro penitentiary labor near the Southern Railway are returned to Raleigh after ballast work. The Southern Broken Stone Company will suspend operations for about a month, with unclear plans for resumed labor beyond convict work.
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Hillsboro
Southern Railway
Raleigh
Southern Broken Stone Company
Fir Gs
Deputy Marshal Appointed for Orange County
Mr. D. E. Forrest of Eland has been named United States Deputy Marshal for Orange County. Also noted is a testimonial: Mr. Wm. S. Crane of California, Md., cured of rheumatism and lumbago by Chamberlain's Pain Balm, now available from W. A. Hayes, Druggist.
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D. E. Forrest
Eland
United States
Orange County
Wm. S. Crane
California
Chamberlain
W. A. Hayes
Parish's sells orange County school books at contract prices
Parish's advertises that it has exclusive contracts for readers geographies histories grammars vertical writing copy books and agriculture primers for the public schools of Orange County. It invites buyers to obtain new school books at contract prices only through Parish's.
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Parish’s
Publis
Orange County
How To Save Money Buy the Best Sewing Machine
The Domestic Parish acts as the agent for a sale of sewing machines promising savings for buyers. Mr A H Leonard and wife of Boston are visiting Capt M W Moore in Bing ham township. Leonard, Shaw & Dean is a large Boston shoe firm.
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A. H. Leonard
Boston
M. W. Moore
Bingham Township
Leonard
Leonard, Shaw & Dean
Parish Firm Continues Under A L Parish Name
Alvin R Farish Uaving purchased half interest in the stock of his brother H L Parish and will continue the business at the old King street stand. The firm will operate as A L Parish.
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Alvin R. Farish Uaving
H. L. Parish
King Street
A. L. Parish
H F Parish offers broad stock of dry goods and groceries
A historical ad proclaims an enlarged stock of dry notions hardware cigars and tobacco hats shoes and fashion goods. It highlights Fight name brands battles axes Jefferson Old Dominion and Ballard flour New York salt molasses coffee cheese and country produce top prices paid for produce plus general merchandise and school books contract noted.
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Kentucky
New York State
Yragklin
Virginia
Pinkin
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