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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1896
Page
2
In Norfolk style notes the SGE County Observer reports a stockholders meeting called in Newbern to discuss leasing the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail road, with the state owning two thirds. The piece mentions preparations for a strong tourist season and improvements to hotels. It also includes local ads and short jokes.
General Fitzhugh Lee, Consul General at Havana, cancels his planned home trip to Virginia. He stays at his post amid reports in the United States that he was dissatisfied with his instructions and sought relief. He remains to avoid appearing to endorse those reports despite the Havana climate hardships.
A Bangor News item describes a wager on yawning six of ten people on an Old Town trolley car, with fourteen of nineteen yawning. Also noted are a Mrs Wells cured by Chamberlain's Pain Balm, a Farmers' State Alliance lease challenge to the North Carolina Rail Road, and praise for Electric Bitters as a tonic for the elderly. It closes with Wisconsin Dairy School alumni in creameries and factories.
An offer of a free 64 page medical reference book to anyone with a sex specific chronic illness. Sent via Dr Hathaway & Co at 2212 South Broad Street Atlanta Ga. Rev Dr Solomon Pool, noted Methodist minister, is recovering from a near fatal illness.
Weekly market report lists wheat at 75 to 85 cents per bushel, corn 35 to 40 cents, oats 35 cents, meal 50 to 60 cents, and bacon hog round 7 to 10 cents. Also notes butter 10 to 20 cents, eggs 12 cents per dozen, wool and hides varied, and country produce in demand.
Col J S Carr pledges to build a sanitarium for consumptives at Southern Pines. A Roanoke river freshet destroys eighty five percent of the State farm corn crop with only fifteen percent saved. Chatham County borders shifted by late reform legislature. New England interests may build a million dollar cotton mill at Moncure. William Wedderburn patent attny offers $150 monthly for best invention. Apple trees yield second crop. Shuping and Trexler report notable fruit. Arabs discover coffee via burnt berries. origin tale recounted. Mrs Andre Berube dies at 109 in Fitchburg a long-lived matriarch.
Tamely urging a tonic, the ad promises a healthy liver with Simmons Liver Regulator as the solution. It asserts perfect digestion, pure blood, and sound judgment for daily life and public questions, appealing to long familiar use.
Obituary notice for Elizabeth Jane Kirkland of Orange County who died October 18 1808 at age 63. Describes her as devoted wife mother and friend with 42 years of Christian service and a large circle of grieving relatives. The notice honors her patience kindness and faith and comforts mourners with religious reflections on crossing the river and entering eternal life.
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