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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1907
Page
3
Local notices, ads, and brief social items report subscription rates, office hours, barber messages, religious meetings, hotel stays, and social moves. Several short notes mention Exposition trips, medical cures, teaching licensing exams, and court proceedings with updates on personnel and upcoming vacancies.
Out of sight and mind sayings are dismissed by Bucklen’s Arnica. It heals wounds, sores, barn infections and piles. Guaranteed at Hayes, Druggist, 250.
Readers discuss what Hillsboro merchants would rather have than a dollar. Many favor durable road improvements into Hillsboro funded by local support. one letter notes strong sentiment for $200 over $100 and cites road commissioners action. A mix of local notices and brief items follow including a monthly board meeting and Union Meeting reports.
The Misses Forrest held a two day winter millinery opening on September 27 and 28. Displayed hats and trims drew high sales and orders, especially for expensive pieces. Church notices include prayer meeting on Oct 2 and preparatory service Oct 5, with quarterly communion Oct 6 and 7:30 p.m. services. DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills advertised with 25 cent trial. Subscribers urged to pay with wood or bring in wood payments.
A brief public notice seeks buyers for a large quantity of cordwood. Likely a supply request posted in a local newspaper column, inviting offers for premium firewood to meet a winter fuel need. No firm deadline or location provided in the readable text.
An old advertisement from Hilteboro North Carolina promotes Shriner's Indian Ver mifuge as a fountain of health. It claims the product cures various ailments blamed on a corrupting influence and offers it at 25 cents per bottle through W A Hayes, a local druggist.
A scanned Hillsboro page lists post office notices advertising letters withheld since September 28 1907 and a roster of names. Local ads promote Frank J. Smith as a butcher moving into the old store back room, with boneless roast veal chop pork and sausage made to order. Other items report weather notes, church convention dates, catarrh treatments offer, town tax collection, and a Baptist Sunday School picnic in Raleigh plus penitentiary visit.
Public notices list tax collection dates and locations for 1907 University Station through November including Chapel Hill Hillsboro Caldwell Schley Cedar Grove and others with times. An administrator's notice announces Lingie Haughanout estate claims due by August 24, 1908.
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