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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1896
Page
3
Local newspaper fragment lists drugstore ads for Cough remedies Goose Grease Liniment and Hall’s Hair Renewer. It mentions Hillsboro Drug Co. stock, W. A. Hayes as agent, and promotional notes for medicines and cosmetics plus generic notices about local auctions and legal matters.
An execution sale is directed by the Orange County Superior Court Clerk in the case WCeo vs HM Gidlis. The sheriff will sell at the courthouse door in Hillsboro on Monday August 3 1896 to satisfy the judgment, with parcels including Caldwell Institute and adjoining lands listed as property in the July 1904 judgment.
A repeated childhood medicine endorsement from a vintage ad copy extols Castoria for children. The text emphasizes kindness and care, claiming castoria beautifies character, cheers the heart, and eases tired shoulders despite bravely borne burdens.
By authority in a mortgage to Fairfield Congregation Trustees recorded in Orange County the undersigned will on Tuesday August 18 1896 at 1 pm at Hillsboro court house door offer for sale a tract of 10 acres in Hillsboro township Orange County bounded by J J Tay D T Clark Frank Smith Fairfield Church Rev J L Currie W L Thompson N P Hall Hughes and others and Poor Heathers subject to a mortgage recorded in Book W page 454 held by Lemuel Lynch assignees of mortgages J McAn Brown Frank Smith B Elle trustees Fairfield by H Winder Webb G Durham assignees of mortgagees.
The item lists multiple short notices: travelers and visitors in Winston and nearby towns, local residents visiting relatives in Nashville and Richmond, and a sales representative returning from the North. It notes Mrs Margaret Nelson registered at Occo Neember Hotel, Mr Thomas Turner traveling to New Orleans, and various relatives visiting Major D. H. Hamilton and Captain John Kirkland’s family.
A compact nostalgic line recounts a mother’s care from infancy to motherhood with Castoria as a recurring remedy across generations. It hints at a long familiar brand used by a family, ending with a reference to children and remedy continuity.
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