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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1902
Page
3
Local notes from Hillsboro include political candidate names, church services, road work, and shop ads. Updates mention Fo ley kidney cures, Shriner's Vermifuge, and Green's Almanac. Public school fund drive aims to build a new Hillsboro schoolhouse with upcoming political speaking events.
Wanted all books then in use in public schools to be exchanged for any kind of school books or supplies. Our stock of school books and supplies is unmatched in Orange County. Also note a meeting of the Orange County Branch Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association at Hillsboro courthouse on Saturday September 13 with important business and full attendance urged by Secretary T. B. Parker.
Wheat at 90 cents a bushel and 60 cents for date price. highest price paid for all kinds of produce. N W Brown & Co invite inquiries. A weather note mentions rain affecting Col Cameron’s farm at Staggville. Oxford Orphan Asylum Singing Class visited Hillsboro. concert at the courthouse raised 29 dollars and 33 cents. Hosts included Hedgpeth, Spurgeon, Cheek, Ray, Roach, Hughes, Occoneechee Hotel, and Rev J W Goodman.
Administrator K H Cristopher invites all claimants to present claims by September 6 1908 or forfeit rights to recovery. Debtors to the estate urged to make immediate payment. This Sunday of September 1902.
The August bulletin notes typhoid fever in 75 of 90 counties and spreads via bowel discharges, water, milk, and flies. It urges rapid disinfection of discharges, proper disposal, hand washing with corrosive sublimate, boiling drinking water, and keeping soiled linens away from wells. The article emphasizes nurse hygiene, prevention in the sick room, and notifying authorities for water testing while urging medical staff to enforce these rules.
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