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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1906
Page
1
The Financial Bureau of Information for Orange County advertises conservative banking and four percent interest on time deposits. It invites deposits from one cent, promising financing for new enterprises and offering information to local residents.
A Denver Republic tale follows Eureka the horse at Fort Culver. Captured by illness, he is ordered to be shot but survives with his unit until a return to service. A wolf and rough frontier trials test the animal, who ultimately reappears gleaming and ready, to the soldiers’ cheers.
Feb 5 to Feb 16 Sahara snow blankets parts of Algeria north to El Golea Fort Mac Mahon and Lag huat covering 50 000 square miles. Snow depth reaches three inches at El Golea while most areas show two inches or less. Inhabitants, unaccustomed to cold, witness rare event as meteorologists study anomalous weather patterns reported by French posts.
A humorous exchange from Harper's Bazar notes Mrs Knicker asking about a new cook and the reply that the clock stopped, implying uncertainty about duration. The remark ends with a wry line about a woman's tears surpassing a man's force.
President Roosevelt arrives by battleship Louisiana at Colon as Panama’s President Amador and canal officials fail to greet him. Roosevelt says the voyage was pleasant and plans to study labor and canal issues. Extensive security and arrests of anarchists accompany the three day visit on the Isthmus.
Special Secretary Metcalf, sent by President Roosevelt to examine the exclusion of Japanese children from white schools, has concluded his inquiry in San Francisco and will return to Washington to file his report. He will carry substantial statistics and details on complaints of boycott of Japanese restaurants and other businesses, assaults on Japanese, and street clashes with whites, while declining to reveal his conclusions.
A vigorous effort seeks a gubernatorial pardon for Thomas and Chalmers White of Concord, each serving five years for the killing of Russell Sherrill of Mt. Ulla. The brothers faced trial after luring Sherrill to a marriage ruse, shot him on his mother's porch, and were later jailed in Salisbury.
In Raleigh the State Board of Education reviews proposed North Carolina history and civics texts. Three works are under consideration including a manuscript history by Prof. D. H. Hill of the A. and M. College to be published by Stone and Barringer Co. of Charlotte, a history by W. C. Allen of Waynesville, and a civics book by W. J. Peele of Raleigh. Several major publishers are represented. final action awaits days.
Mt Airy authorities seek Graham Trotter, teller at First National Bank, on complicity charges after a late night assault injured two young people and a bystander in Mt Airy. Trotter is confined without bail as Detroit reports a Michigan Central freight crash killed three and damaged the station waiting room.
The Southern Immigration and Quarantine Conference in Nashville focused on immigration policy while race and the negro question dominated discussions. Gov Cox urged Southern leaders to protect black rights but strip political rights from the vicious and ignorant, with Gov Heyward lauding immigration as a solution to the race problem.
Moscow report says a bomb was hurled at Mayor Reinet on Tver street Monday morning. Reinet, uninjured, drew his revolver and killed the attacker.
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