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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1896
Page
2
Orange County Observer dated September 3 1896 notes a weekly publication schedule. The notice mentions the publisher releases every Thursday and provides the standard masthead details for the period.
A jumbled passage lists candidates for Attorney General and Electors with names from Mecklenburg Burke Beaufort and Buncombe while a Ohio inquiry to Sherman appears. Also ads tout salves for skin and rheumatic cure with W A Hayes druggist and a death by suicide of a Raleigh clerk. Des Moines lumber firm medicine claims and land sale for a Warren county game preserve. Also a Great South American Kidney Cure offered with Hillsboro Druggist. Salisbury railroad shop costs cited.
Col. Bennehan Cameron, president of the State Fair, returns from the North to discuss his October appearance. He plans speeches in Baltimore on the 15th, Richmond on the 16th, and possibly Greensboro on the 17th, with Raleigh as a final leg depending on travel. Nearby items note medical ads and local notices.
The document lists officers to be elected at multiple levels including President, Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General and others. It records Prohibition Party nominees for Governor Jeremiah Holt Alamance and other statewide offices, several district electors, and the State Executive Committee selection.
A rural note favors Caldwell townsfolk with weather still dry and crops poor due to fodder harvest. Local letters address a Cedar Grove baseball dispute at Col Carr farm, defend Caldwell’s sportsmanship, and note Miss Jodie Wilson and others attending protracted meetings led by Rev. Thompson and Rev. Caviness. Continued community updates from FARMER BOY.
The Orange County Democratic Convention should nominate honest capable and loyal men. The Observer endorses D S Parker of Cedar Grove township for County Treasurer or any suitable office and urges Chapel Hill township support. Ezekiel Sartin of Cedar Grove died at 79. Aged obituary notes a widow two children. Also an ad touts Dean Safe System investments with semi monthly gold dividends and broad distribution.
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