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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1902
Page
4
A tobacconist notes summer boosts cigar sales while winter and high winds curb smoking outdoors. He explains the difference between calm and windy days, saying receipts rise in summer due to outdoor smoking and more favorable conditions, while bad weather reduces demand.
In Washington Gen Wood escorts President Roosevelt along Massachusetts Avenue. a dock-tailed horse leads the way while an orderly and two plainclothes policemen follow on bicycles. The piece also notes Senor Marconi's six-word transatlantic message and the editor’s exchange on communication progress.
Jaropolk, early Russian ruler, survived with about half a lower jaw after a saber wound in a Turkish battle. Grizzly cubs born in captivity are hard to raise. of twenty three born at Cincinnati only one survived.
Dear Mrs Proxnam: traveling for years with irregular meals and damp beds broke down health. physician advised tests. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash, health improved within a month and she remained in good health, noting no missed engagements. Mrs G Bruce Lansing Mich endorses the remedy, inviting others to seek free counsel from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
A lyrical panorama of the Santa Fe Trail from rugged pioneer eras to the steam era. It contrasts old hardships with modern progress as trains and settlers reshape the West, noting the enduring quest toward a fertile land and the shifts in liberty and commerce.
A reminiscence from Allegany County New York describes a boy near the Maple sugar season who treks from a sugar bush, shoots a deer, drags it home, and realizes he has repeatedly circled back on his own trail, ending in the eerie discovery that he has been walking in circles with a dog following his tracks. He recalls dense woods, wild pigeons, and the old hunting days along the Pennsylvania border.
A woods chase recounts a panther pursuing a hunter with a deer. with dwindling ammo, the hunter yells. George Parker arrives, kills the panther, and guides the narrator home. The tale ends with pie and praise from a strict father at Nelson farm. The second piece contrasts American and German discipline and work ethics citing government control in Germany versus internal drive in America.
The article notes that mummies exist in the United States within cliff dwellings of the Pueblo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico. It describes cliff dwellers as Pueblo people and mentions Peruvian mummy making seen at the time of Spanish discovery. The tone focuses on surprising parallels between Egypt and American sites.
In Japanese match factories the boxes and labels are made by little girls who are dexterous in the work. They earn from one halfpenny to two pence half a penny for twelve hours work.
A brief note cites Mr. Clayton of the Blue Hill Observatory and a Popular Science Monthly paper arguing rainfall impacts on commerce and politics. It links financial panics to drought, the Boxer War to peasants' decline, and revolutions to severe winters, with historic allusions to Caesar and Moscow.
A New York World note shows rapid modern dispatch as a prisoner is tried by telephone after a judge is rung seven miles away. In Oswego two lovers wed via phonograph under a clergyman's supervision due to quarantine. Also advertised are Allen's Foot-Ease and Putnam facial dyes. More items include cures for fits, soothing syrups for children, Japan’s dining car uptake, and San Francisco’s four daily Chinese-language papers.
Julian M Solomon of Savannah Ga credits Tetterine with curing a bad ring worm after only two applications. He says to obtain a box by mail from J T Shuptrine of Savannah if local druggists don’t stock it. The note also mentions goats in Naples climbing high into houses to be milked.
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