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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
1
Guidelines urge caregivers to separate quarreling children to stop the habit, noting siblings dislike being apart. A persistently cross child may be tired or ill, and a visit to a doctor can help restore calm. The article mentions a historic note about Germany’s North Sea to Baltic passage.
North Carolina state press association gathered in Hendersonville for its annual convention with Col S V Pickens presenting the editors a rusty jail key found during courthouse construction. officers were elected including Rev J O Atkinson president and J B Sherrill secretary treasurer. resolutions thanked telegraph and railroad firms for transport and hospitality. sixteen new members enrolled and Rev F J Murdock died in Charleston at 63.
Mount Airy farmers face record rainfall that hinders plowing and harvesting. Despite ripe wheat, daily downpours through Friday prevent cutting grain and preparing corn, leaving growers in a deep hole for the Surry county season.
The private laws of the 1909 General Assembly are nearly issued as printing is complete aside from the index. This follows the early publication of public laws issued in May. The session set records for rapid publication, giving the state earlier access to full law information than usual.
In Greensboro Special-Bryant Benton 12 year old brother of James M Benton city editor of the Morning Telegram was instantly killed when his fingers touched an uninsulated live wire at a church lawn party. A playmate was nearby as the boy climbed a tree and his leg touched another wire causing a fatal short circuit.
Senate workers wrangled over lumber duties boosting pineapples and coal rates, while Wright brothers won a 30 day extension. Contention grew over the 15 percent ad valorem on hides, and President Taft eyed a Panama overtime issue and a corporation tax plan.
A special Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk and Western plan to complete the Winston-Salem Southbound Railroad within 18 months prompts satisfaction. Leaders Col. F. H. Fries and Henry E. Fries advanced the Chicago to Charleston through route via Twin City as a junction. Henry E. Fries now serves as president. Exoneration in Florida: James Kelly questions D M Davidson's guilt after murder verdict. Kelly accepts jury verdict, Davidson claimed innocent in the killing of W C Sella, railroad night watchman, three years ago at High Springs.
The steamer Arctic sent back to base with flags at half mast reporting Kaul Johnson died in the pack ice after his airship was wrecked during a May 19 hunting expedition with Paul Bjorvig. His colleague survived as the two men remained with Walter Wellman's expedition. A separate Dublin breach of promise case details a relentless suitor who wrote 146 love letters.
A Charlotte jury of twelve freemen returned a not guilty verdict for W. S. Biggers in the murder of J. Green Hood after an eleven day trial. The defense argued confusional insanity linked to emotional strain and a financial crisis, prompting the jury to acquit despite the charged crime.
Solomon Shepard, a Black man in Durham, confesses to killing Engineer Holt last December near Durham without an accomplice. He claims he was provoked by being put off a train and fired to frighten, accidentally targeting Holt with a shotgun amid a web of speculation about Reuben Barbee.
Atlanta dispatch reports Special-Governor Joseph M Brown, son of Governor Joe Brown, sworn in Saturday with Jeffersonian simplicity. Smith, concluding acts, signed 15 pardons, freeing six murderers and three violators of prohibition laws.
Atlanta special report: The Georgia Railroad strike arbitration board ruled against white firemen’s seniority over black firefighters. The decision favors intelligence as a criterion, signaling the gradual elimination of all but the most expert black firemen.
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