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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1899
Page
2
In the 1860 census the nation spent just over two million dollars for a population of about 51 million. By 1890 spending rose to 11.2 million while population reached about 62.6 million. The article asks what the 100 year population and census cost will be and notes official answers await completion and final funding, potentially by 1905.
The story notes a Raleigh gathering of state cotton grower representatives on Saturday October 21 with many invitations sent by Commissioner Patterson and expected large attendance. It also mentions a distant war between the South African Republics and Great Britain and criticizes the recent Peace Conference.
Slow to Look Goon. Good looks depend on a healthy condition of all vital organs. If the liver is inactive you appear bilious, if the stomach is disordered you look dyspeptic, if kidneys are affected you look pinched. Electric Bitters is described as a total tonic acting on stomach liver and kidneys. It claims to improve blood and clear pimples blotches and boils, with a guarantee and price of 50 cents at W A Slayes Drug Store.
In front of thousands of spectators President McKinley formally laid the corner stone of the magnificent new federal building in Chicago, a ceremony marked by official pomp and public interest.
In 1807 James Reed of Clay West Virginia bruised his leg on ice and endured swelling and pain. Physicians and liniments failed until Chamberlains Pain Balm was used, yielding near complete recovery in a week and avoiding amputation. The ad notes pain balm as a remedy for sprains bruises and rheumatism sold by W A Hayes, Druggist.
A village population of exactly 206 in Servia Indiana along the Chicago and Erie Railway is noted for its unusually large men with twelve individuals weighing more than 260 pounds each and some approaching 500 pounds, a remarkable local detail from the period.
Harrisburg woman Mary Bird assigns millions of dollars to her child’s life, saved from croup by One Minute Cough Cure. The product claims to cure coughs colds throat and lung troubles and is promoted by W A Hayes.
John Doolittle of Washington County Georgia picked 487 pounds of seed cotton on the seventh instant. John Simons of Washington County Mississippi, formerly held the championship record of 460 pounds in a single day.
The Toledo Weekly Blade boasts a vast nationwide reach with two million readers and 70 000 post offices, touting honesty and family appeal. It promises features from serials to lessons and a subscription offer of $18 yearly, plus club terms, while mixing in local ads and brief notices about remedies, tobacco markets, and educational advances in Germany.
Weekly market ledger lists wheat 65 to 79 cents per bushel. corn 55 cents. oats 49 cents. meal 60 cents. pork 5 to 6 cents per pound. bacon 7 to 10 cents. flour 34 to 85 dollars per barrel. tallow 4 cents. beeswax 20 cents. butter 15 to 20 cents. eggs 12 cents. peas 65 to 75 cents. beans 74 cents to 1.00. chickens 10 to 25 cents each. wool prices 10 to 25 cents. coffee 10 to 15 cents. sugar 5 to 6 1/2 cents. Strong demand for country produce.
The Raleigh News and Observer reports Col J S Carr in New York denies announcing a candidacy for the United States Senate. He says he does not plan to seek office and urges Democrats to focus on adopting a constitutional amendment, arguing opposition is stronger than anticipated. The Orange County Observer still views Carr as the party’s likely choice and suggests the office will seek him.
A 15 year old Ernest Jenkins died recently at Gold Hill Rowan County from excessive cigarette smoking after violent convulsions preceded his death. The item notes the peril of smoking among youth and records the death in a local county context.
Work starts soon on a four mile canal from Haw River to Chatham county, dropping 91 feet and yielding 8006 horsepower to operate three cotton mills. Erwin Mill Company to spend 1,000,000 dollars. 250 workers to dig the canal.
A public notice urges Orange and Durham residents to buy life policies for families' protection. It lists officers and agents of the Orange Division, including President Samuel M. Gattis, Secretary Harry L. Parish, several directors, and local agents D. F. Crawford and A. A. Murdock. The ad emphasizes cheap, dependable coverage and urges immediate contact with an agent.
By virtue of an execution from the Superior Court of Orange County the property of M S Crabtree will be sold at Hillsboro court house on Wednesday November 1 1899 at 1 pm for cash The real estate in Bingham township totaling about fifty acres is bounded by I M Crabtree Baldwin Dodson and J Carr Sheriff John K Hughes notes the sale date.
By virtue of a mortgage deed executed to Wm T Wilson by Alex Oakley and Jane Oakley his wife and recorded in Orange County Register of Deeds Book V page 456 I will sell for cash to the highest bidder at the courthouse door in Hillsboro on Tuesday October 31 1590 tract of land in Cedar Grove township adjoining lands of the heirs of William H Jordan Wm Parker and others containing by estimation 49 acres more or less Sale is made to satisfy mortgage and pay costs.
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