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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1903
Page
3
The Orange County Observer lists subscription figures and advertising rates, with notices on local residents, appointments, and business lines. It notes mortgage sale ads, government and postal details, and various small items from Hillsboro and surrounding areas.
Under a power in a 41 mortgage deed Cicery Buck and Mollie Buck execute sale to E S Warren. The Ezekiel Sartin homestead tract totaling 100 acres in Cedar Grove township is offered at public auction at the Hillsboro courthouse on Saturday August 22 1903. The sale fulfills the mortgage and costs. E L Warren mortgagee dated July 17 1903. Five courses to diplomas and advanced degrees offered at a Greensboro NC school with 46 faculty. Dormitory board and fees $140 yearly non residents $160. Twelfth annual session begins September 15 1903. Free-tuition applications for dormitory board due before July 11. Address CHAS D McIVER Greensboro NC for catalog and information.
Mixed items include greetings for visiting relatives Cecilia Joyner and Annie Burdick, local shop promos for Parish and Fancy Grocery Co, hats and caps sale with Jefferson and Madison brands, and a note on the Orange County Colored Teachers Institute meeting July 27 1903 in Hillsboro with attendance required for teachers. Also ads for Foley's Kidney Cure, Laxative Bromo Quinine, and Frisco ticket sales from Birmingham and Saint Louis to western states.
An old newspaper snippet features WM. H. Newman inviting friends to the West End Grocery Company near the depot Hooker store with a fall line of Grocerica tobacco cigars and more. A Mrs Minerva Smith of Danville Ill claims twenty years of bronchitis relief after using Foley's Honey and Tar, with W A Hayes endorsing.
Teachers wishing to prepare for examinations should write to Prof J L Graham for particulars about a mail taught course that claims to prepare teachers for exams in every state. Enclose stamp for reply. Mr and Mrs William B Shepard left for Edenton with Miss Gertrude Shepard to spend time at Hillsboro.
The Durham Sun shares readers remarks on news coverage and urges public tips. It promotes Peace Institute Raleigh catalog, a worm remedy, Frank C. Mebane visiting relatives, Dr. Ling’s Life Pills, and rail excursion rates to San Francisco via Rock Island System. Thomas Hill toured London and Paris before returning to Hillsboro.
Veterans of Orange County Confederate units who sent in certificates for the Southern Cross of Honor prior to June 3 are notified the crosses are with Major D H Hamilton for distribution. Eligible recipients may claim in person or by written order at Major Hamilton’s Hillsboro courthouse office. Mrs G P Collins and Miss Rebecca Cameron signatories. A $100 reward is offered for the arrest and conviction of the barn arsonist who burned a Little River Township barn on July 2, 1903.
Alvin R. Parish Saving bought one half interest in the stock of his brother H. L. Parish will continue the basin at his old stand on King Street the firm style remaining H. L. Parish.
HH H Parish advertises an enlarged assortment of dry goods including notions hats caps and gents furnishings. The message highlights Battle Axe Shoes Jefferson and Old Dominion hats Ballard Obelisk flour and a broad range of groceries hardware cigars tobacco coffee and school books with promises of high produce prices and quick service.
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