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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1896
Page
2
The notice identifies Joseph A. Harris as publisher and owner of the Hillsborough Range County Observer newspaper. The announcement appears in a Thursday edition and confirms leadership changes for the publication.
The column reports McKinley and Bryan electoral tallies with state splits, comments on North Carolina politics, and ads including Noble Refining Co. sales positions. It also includes health notes on croup remedies, Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, a Catholic church organ project, a kidney care ad, and a Boston preacher’s diet claim.
In a Kansas township eleven or twelve voters cast ballots. Palmer and Buckner won by a single vote over McKinley and Hobart with five to four and Bryan and Sewall two and Bryan and Wateen one. The victorious duo celebrated by painting the township red.
An advertisement touts the Toledo Weekly Blade as a leading general family weekly with national reach. It highlights serials poetry wit humor Household department Young Folks Sunday School Lessons and Talmage sermons and invites specimen copies and postal addresses for mailing. Subscriptions are advertised at 1 per year with club terms available.
Minister M W Ransom reached his sorrowing home in time for the burial of his son Thomas with about 500 mourners at Wilmington message. Other items note Mrs Wells of East Brimfield finding relief from neuralgia after Chamberlain's Pain Balm trial. Raleigh Soldiers Home capacity and health of inmates. Dr Kings New Discovery praised in Virginia. and North Carolina State University reporting 436 students, up 20 from last year.
A fragment shows a weekly market list with prices for wheat corn oats meal bacon flour tallow beeswax butter eggs hides chickens feathers wool and country produce. Also a faded patent cough syrup advertisement repeats.
State notes report two ex governors living Curtis I Brogden and Thomas J Jarvis. Baptist convention adjourns at Morganton to meet in Oxford next year with votes favoring youth reformatories and opposing state aid to higher education. Report on gold bearing rock samples from Hendersons property show richer ore deeper. Charlotte describes a man in a frock menacing residents and chased by Dave Cline. Tobacco price concerns voiced as farmers seek substitutes amid monopolistic control. Biblical Recorder warns the liquor question will reach the legislature and stresses moral stakes for the state.
Hon Wo J Bryan has received many tempting offers including a New York mercantile firm offering $25 000 yearly but he declined. He will start a non partisan lecturing tour in December visiting Atlanta Texas and other principal cities of the Union with W E McBee arranging the contract.
President Cleveland appoints W S Forman of Illinois as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, replacing resigned Jos W Miller. Alexander Stevens Clay of Cobb County Georgia is elected to the U S Senate to succeed Senator Gordon.
The piece urges moving state Democratic conventions and headquarters from Raleigh to Greensboro or Charlotte, noting many Raleigh Democrats failed to vote and backing a central location. It discourages Raleigh influence and hints at shifting power to Greensboro.
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