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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
2
The Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce calls the Willard tax listing act unjust impracticable and unconstitutional and asks Gov Aycock to convene a special legislative session to amend it. The issue is presented amid other items including political notes and literary notices from The Range County Observer.
An advertisement from Lawrence Kansas promotes Electric Bitter claiming it cured long bed rest due to kidney and liver trouble nervous prostration and debility. The testimonial from Mrs IL Pease says three bottles let her walk again in three months. It targets women with headaches backache nervousness insomnia melancholy fainting and dizziness. The text notes price and that Druggist W A Hayes guarantees satisfaction. Also cites British war costs of 775 million dollars and 14,978 dead 17,209 disabled over three fiscal years.
A Goop Coven MEDICINE praises Chamberlains Cough Remedy as preferred by druggists for families. Druggist J. Goldsmith of Van Huen New York reports five years of satisfaction and usefulness for ordinary coughs colds and grippe coughs. Also notes Illinois battleship speed record and promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as aiding digestion with natural digestive fluids.
There are now 465 inmates of the insane asylum at Raleigh, the largest number ever. Affected by energy loss, backache, and general ran down condition, kidney disorder is blamed. Foley's Kidney Cure is advertised to restore strength by healing the kidneys. W. A. Hayes.
State Auditor Dixon reports the pension rolls have reached 6,000 and he expects to climb to 10,000 within the year. He notes the increase will involve soldiers and related personnel.
The Atlanta Journal notes Pennsylvania's act of exhuming a murderer and casting the corpse into a 50 foot deep pond as public vengeance. It criticizes the community for preferring posthumous punishment over burial and suggests lynching a living man would have been more to their credit.
Mrs Haviland of Armonk New York credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving her daughter from a near fatal attack of whooping cough and bronchitis after other remedies failed. Her niece, with advanced consumption, also recovered and is now well. The medicine is praised as universal for throat and lung diseases and is sold with guarantees and free trial bottles.
June 12 1901 Bingham School notes report a successful Commencement with Burling ton Cornet Band music, scholarship prizes, and an afternoon athletic contest. Evening debate on Expansion featured honors for Seawell Heath and others while the graduating class included Davis Clark Heath Seawell McCubbins and Peden. The article notes improved penmanship and physical culture charts, new subjects French and German, and praises Prof Kitrell as head of Mathematics and Science. Also includes several brief testimonials and contemporary ads.
Five year old son of Mr. Washington Terrell, Haw River, burned when matches ignited his clothing. After three hours of agony he died. Local notice urges readers to contact W A Hayes for a free sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Also mentions Gen Fitzhugh Lee as a U S Senate candidate and promotes Banner Salve for cuts and bruises. Don’s cotton region report notes satisfactory crop progress.
A valuable tract of land in Hillsboro township Orange county will be sold at Hillsboro courthouse door on July 1 1901 to the highest bidder. The property known as the Tinnin place adjoins Eliza Berry Sallie McCracken and Thomas M Cheek and covers seventy acres more or less. Terms: one third cash one third in six months and one third in twelve months with interest from the sale date on deferred payments. This 23rd day of May 1901.
St Johns Day usually held at the Oxford Orphan Asylum on June 24 will be observed this year on Saturday June 22. Railroads are asked for reduced rates and many visitors are expected. The program includes an address of welcome by Dr B K Hays and a response by Senior Grand Warden W Liddell. Dr George T Winston, president of A M College at Raleigh, will be the speaker for the day.
A collected set of small notices and testimonials mentions kidney cure claims for Foley's Kidney Cure and De Witt's Little Early Risers. Also cited are flirtatious banter exchanges, local dispensation revenue figures, and a Salisbury Missouri testimonial praising kidney relief after three bottles.
Prices for wheat corn oats meal pork bacon flour tallow beeswax butter eggs and more listed by weight and measure. Markets show strong demand for country produce with oats at five to six to six cents and beans and peas in a wide price range.
W S Whedon of Winterset Iowa reports a carpenter under his employ improved after using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The carpenter, troubled by diarrhoea, bought a bottle from the local druggist and says one dose cured him. For sale by W A Hayes, Druggist.
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