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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1905
Page
3
Local post and rail notices list trains to Raleigh Greensboro and Dur ham with arrival times and connections. Advertisements push 10 cent groceries, 25 cent guitars, and farming goods. Community updates include deaths, sermons, elections, and health notices from Hillsboro and surrounding areas.
Be SPECIAL PRICE in Buggies Sewing Machines and Furniture in Hille borough. We offer to the trade Buggies Sewing Machines and Furniture fewer than ever before sold. See Hackney Barbour and Corbet models plus a large lot of cheaper buggies. Sewing machines include Wheeler and Wilson Eldridge New England Queen Blue Ribbon and Excelsior. Yours for business.
Short notes report on paint products from Brown & Co and sales by O J and B B Forrest. Mention of Parish stock sale notice by 8S M Gattis trustee. Local items note Miss Marie Rowton visiting Hillsboro and Algernon S Barbee, tarlister for Chapel Hill township, in town.
The Observer notes Memorial Day observance in Hillsboro inviting Daughters of the Confederacy to participate. It covers local items such as mortgage sale notice, E A Toler completing bridge repairs, county commissioners’ actions, Easter visit by the Bennetts, and Sheriff Hughes tax collection details. Also mentions ads for Devoe paints and Home Comfort Range, plus Durham Recorder remark on sheriff salary law and potential constitutional test.
The 7th of June 1905 sale offers two tracts in Cedar Grove township adjoining Wells Pittard and Compton with the Murphy Home Place at 156 acres and Gray Place at 100 acres. Sold separately then as a whole with one-half cash and rest in six and twelve months, bids may be rejected. Also on May 22 1905 at Hillsboro court house sale of 179 acre John Reaves Place in Bingham township with one-third cash and two thirds in installments, titles held until notes are paid.
In Hillsboro New York on Saturday May 13 1905 the stock of goods from H L Parish and C R Parish will be sold at 12 m cash. Items include dry goods hardware groceries crockery shoes and store fixtures. Trustee S M Gattis notes the sale conditions and dates.
A series of physicians from North and South Carolina extol Harris Lithia Water as a superior remedy for fever thirst gouty conditions and kidney and bladder troubles. They report its good tolerability when taken in larger amounts and recommend it for diabetes Bright’s disease and uric acid issues.
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