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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1893
Page
2
The Hillsborough Observer in Hillsborough North Carolina notes Joseph A. Harris as publisher and owner. The issue is dated Saturday July 25, 1803 and entered at the Hillsborough post office as second class matter.
The Orange County Observer remains the only newspaper published in the county, established in its early days and continuing as the trusted local record for residents and officials.
The Sunday opening of the Chicago Exposition proved a failure and will be closed on Sundays in the future. We hope the World's Fair may yet be a success. It mentions the France Siam potential conflict and expresses desire for distant fighting. It highlights rapid growth of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts from one building and five professors to six buildings and fifteen teachers in four years, noting its first class graduated in June and many graduates found good positions.
The A and N C R R Company reports its first ever 2 percent dividend on capital stock, adding 26500 to the state treasury. A surplus remains after purchasing two locomotives, passenger cars, freight cars, and settling old debts. A second 2 percent dividend is declared for stockholders, adding 25500 to the state treasury, with Chadwick praised as president and likely to be continued in that role.
Those who used Dr King’s New Discovery know its value and now nonusers can try it free. Send name and address to HLEE Baeklen & Co Chicago for a sample box of Drookhuug’s New Life Puts Free and a Guide to Health and Household Instructor. W. A. Hayes Drugstore.
A patient from Monticetto Fooniosa recounts eight years of ill health including malaria rheumatism and dyspepsia with hair loss and kidney issues. After three months on P P P he improved from near collapse to a healthy man using four small bottles and hair regrowth. He cannot recommend P P 2.
North Carolina items report Associate Justice Walter Clark recovering from illness, P H Hanes & Co in Winston plans a larger tobacco factory after a $125 900 insurance settlement, and Concord Times notes Odell Manufacturing gains 7 665 452 yards of goods with plant expansions.
A Wilmington Star item imagines if Earth’s 1.4 billion people settled in Texas in family groups of five. It claims each family would get a house lot and a five acre yard, leaving enormous land for cabbage gardens.
A period advertisement urges readers to restore vigor by taking Brown's Iron Bitters, promising renewed strength for those feeling weak and fatigued.
Corrected by N. W. Brown & Co. Confederate Depot lists wholesale prices per bushel and per pound for wheat corn oats meal bacon peas flour tallow beeswax hogs live weight butter eggs dry fruits and more. Includes dried fruits prices and guidance to prepare your produce for market to command the best returns.
Maj H P Jones writes from Tacoma July 4 1893 describing economic hard times across Montana Idaho and Washington. He extols Tacoma growth and timber mills with logs and beams measured in hundreds of feet while noting fruit crops roses and abundant timber prospects. He plans further travel to Seattle Portland San Francisco Los Angeles and beyond.
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