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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1906
Page
1
An advertisement from J S Spurgeon president and Chas A Scott ex-president of Orange Bank promotes conservative banking with 4 percent interest on time deposits from $1, urging all residents to open accounts. The piece includes a Chesterton quotation about faith, doubt, and Christmas imagery.
In a Midland town assizes crowd watches as two young men Meyrick and Carston feud with love and jealousy over a sunny haired woman. A chain of clues ties the killer to Vernon Stanton the curate, who dies in a railway accident after confession turning a near tragedy into a cautionary tale.
A Philadelphia Record tale quotes a legislator recalling a swearing in where ornate bibles went missing. He says veterans admitted pocketing the beautifully bound volumes as holiday gifts and asks what happens when bibles are not safe.
In Ashland, Aroostook County, a cotton plant blooms out of season. The plant arose from seed acquired by Mrs. H. A. Greenwood in Atlanta, Georgia last winter and was planted in March. Blossoms appeared on Thanksgiving day.
The Rev. Winfield Scott Baer of St. George’s Church in Brooklyn delivers a sermon on Christian Life drawing from the Transfiguration and Calvary. He urges seekers to rise to higher vision through worship and prayer and to translate vision into service amid life’s daily streets.
A compact meditation on love, praising its divine origin and supremacy over heaven and earth. The text extols love as born of God, rising above creation to rest in the divine. The author, Thomas a Rempie, emphasizes love as the ultimate, enduring force.
A reflective confession by Tomkins asking if readers truly love Jesus. He prompts self questioning about friendship, weakness, sin, purity, wisdom in doubt, and seeking rest in faith.
A fragment notes the cost of firing a shot from a sixteen inch gun equals the pay of three privates for five years, referencing a Stincl. Sam’s gun and equ potential wording. The item reads like a terse military pay comparison from a historical ledger.
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