20 Jun 1907
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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
1
J S Spurgeon, president, urges readers to prepare for June price rises and future needs. He notes widespread goods increases up to thirty percent and predicts new merchandise arriving July 1. The message emphasizes prudent buying and savings.
P C Collins and Chas A Scott as vice presidents invite every man, woman and child in Orange County to open accounts. The bank claims to be the Financial Bureau of Information for the county and will provide information. Four percent interest on time deposits. Deposits from $100 up taken.
A compact verse urges choosing better paths in life with a call to act, help, and hopeful persistence. It contrasts short and long routes, good and bad, merry and sad, ending with a prompt to sing rather than sigh.
A southbound stage from Salinas Crossing to San Luis Obispo encounters rising rivers and harsh bank rates. At Pleito Ranch a quarrel over funds ends with Old Williams’s wife, Mrs. Williams, boarding the coach and forcing repayment, then planning a Frisco trip herself after ousting her husband. The raid turns to farce as passengers, including a Santa Barbara colonel and a whisky drummer, lend aid to cover the loan and continue the journey mocking Williams’s predicament.
State Game Warden Stevens received a large shipment of strychnine from Philadelphia for use against coyotes and other predatory animals. The $5,000 appropriation marks the first state effort to protect game and stock by official means, a pioneering move in U S history. The experiment will be watched, since bounty systems have failed to eradicate pests and often harm a profitable secondary industry.
The London Telegraph notes that Lord Lister, the English surgeon, is widely respected as the man who by discovering antiseptic wound treatment conferred a vast boon to all mankind. The quote claims that no living person has matched his global impact.
The Rev Ira W Henderson preaches on Exodus 20 9 11 urging Sabbath rest as divine and human necessity. He argues the day sustains spiritual growth and physical health, condemns turning Sunday into a general holiday or Continental style leisure, and calls for keeping the Sabbath devoted to worship and renewal.
A Bible Advocate meditation uses the palm tree as a metaphor for spiritual growth. It contrasts bitter surroundings with inner life through Jesus Christ, suggesting transformation from sin into strength and fruitfulness.
A Northern Christian Advocate quote extols divine gentleness as power. It contrasts quiet divine acts with bluster and urges believers to seek gentleness to perform brave deeds and move hearts toward penitence and faith.
An English preacher told this illustration of a brier in a ditch. A gardener digs it out and plants it among flowers, while the brier laments its worthlessness and later acknowledges the unexpected value among rose trees.
The meditation presents the cross as the measure of love and self denial rather than a mere misfortune. It echoes Jesus carrying the cross and calls followers to imitate Him by bearing a cross for the world’s salvation as explained by Auguste Sabatier.
Poetic motto urging sung faith in hardship. Quote by J. R. Miller encourages singing during rain and gloom as a sign of Christ's presence, a compact spiritual reflection.
Fifteen University of Wisconsin students join a single-blessedness club with penalties for marriage set at 500 dollars and 25 to 50 cent fines for dating actions and gifts. President Hedwig E. Federale touts a fixed purpose, citing a prior ten-wirl society where members later wed or became engaged.
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