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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1903
Page
3
A compact community page notes advertising rates, office hours, and a frost report. It mentions county commissioners meeting October 5, a Frisco System travel promotion, local residents visiting relatives, medical ads for Chamberlain tablets, a Virginia Midland wreck near Danville with multiple deaths, and the death of William Turner of Orange County.
While opening a box J C Mcsant of Three Mile Bay New York found a ten penny nail in the fleshy part of his hand He applied Chamberlains Balm and reports immediate relief and quick healing The product is sold by W L Hayes Druggist.
Multiple 1903 notices describe limited buggy sales of 40 to 50 models from Oxford Paty Wrenn and others. Parks Hedgpeth advertises bulk cheap buggies to clear warehouse space. Also notes candy gift, railway ticket deals, pig sales, school agriculture book, kidney cure testimonial, and a Hillsboro water grist mill sale with land.
Sucftower North Carolina September 21 1903 Mt Zion Baptist Association will meet October 6 at Cane Creek Educational and temperance addresses to be given by Dr C E Taylor Wake Forest College and John A Oates editor of the North Carolina Baptist Public urged to attend all services Meetings also note promotions for local groceries and travel rates via Rock Island System with details for Hillsboro NC residents. Dr Thomas Hume of the State University preached two sermons at the Baptist church this Sunday.
Auction and sale notices appear for Lard Tabs at Parish's and Shriner's Vermituge with worm expulsion claims. Legal notices state Hilsboro Grist Mill sale by S M Gattis. Niagara Falls meeting of Farmers National Congress elects Col Benneban Cameron 1st Vice President. Rev J W Goodman starts Presbyterian meetings October 1 with Rev Hines. Rock Island offers Pacific coast trips Sept 15 to Nov 39. Free Chamberlain tablets at W A Hayes. Continentals advertise berry plants and fruit trees. County Board of Education to consolidate Efland Rail Road districts and Occoneechee Ridge districts and build two-room schools with a loan from State Board.
On Oct 29, 1903 at noon at Elijah Malone deceased residence in Cedar Grove Township Orange County a sale to the highest bidder will describe real estate. Two tracts sixty and eighteen acres bounded by named lands. Sale per court order in W. J. Hughes et al vs James B. Blackwell et al. Terms one third cash and balance in 6 and 12 months with interest. Commissioner S J Hall signs Sept 25, 1903.
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