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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
3
Orange County Observer issues a rate card for 1902 with subscription costs and advertising prices. One year in advance costs 1.00, six months 0.50, three months 0.25. Advertising is 1.00 per square inch for the first and 0.50 for each subsequent insertion, with contracts available at the office or by correspondence.
West and easy bound timetable pages list trains toward Hillsboro with a few connections and freight schedules. Post office hours, money order cutoffs, and local notices accompany ads and personnel updates from Hillsboro and nearby Greensboro Knoxville references.
The Waynesville liquor dispensary, brick supply depot for Haywood area, reports gross receipts over 19000 and net profits near 7000 for the year ending March 31. Carrying costs including manager’s salary, rent and miscellaneous items totaled about 1200.
Don’t start the season with a lingering cough or cold. A few doses of One Minute Cough Care will set you right and ease coughs, colds, croup, grip, bronchitis, and throat and lung troubles. Children like it. Claim from J H Bowles Groveton NH and W A Hayes. Try our Mixed Pickles at 30 cents a quart.
A Raleigh Times note praises General Jack Sellars visiting Kinston for amusement and local color. The piece mocks his unmatching outfits and train boarding habit, cites reports of drinking, and mentions charity and medical advice promoting Foley's Kidney Cure. Ends with Currant Jelly and Peach Preserves from Fanny Co.
Invitations issued for the hundredth anniversary celebration of Salem Female Academy in Winston-Salem North Carolina from May 22 to 29 1902. Mr J B Wohitaxer Jr chairman of the City Press Association also invites attendance at centennial exercises and related events.
Fragmented ad style note claims Dr King New Life Pills digest food and purge poisons, improve appetite, enrich blood, and build healthy flesh. Quoted price of 250 at W A Hayes drug store. Interwoven joke from Chicago News references love and money for marriage.
In Salem North Carolina a girls school emphasizes home life and a system of room companions to keep students safe and happy. The Salem school, old yet renowned, will celebrate its centennial May 22 to 29 1902.
The Orange County Teachers Association will hold sessions at the Court House Hillsboro on Friday and Saturday May 2 and 3 1902 led by Prof C S Noble of the University. The programme features practical teaching demonstrations and talks by local educators with Prof Cobb delivering an illustrated lecture on Yellowstone National Park.
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