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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1893
Page
2
miscellany from Hillsborough including postal notices, weather, medical notes, church events, court quips, business ads, and a Stockton Antiseptic testimonial. Highlights mention Confederate veterans union delay, cotton and crop figures, Sunday school gatherings, a Savannah court fine, and Alamance Fair attractions with races, balloon ascension, and a parachute leap.
An ad promotes SRO Ni Yiese faures as deities of Dr Ning’s New Discovery or Consumption and Coughs. It claims 82 bottles sold in one year with a guarantee of refunds if unsatisfactory. A testimonial from J F Greer of Green Cove Springs Florida cites rheumatism relief after using Prickly Ash Poke Root Potassium medicine and endorses it as the best remedy of its kind.
Toe Pan and Slomphreys Specie No 7 advertised for sale from Canada to Cape Jorn. BeekLEN's ANICA SALVE claimed to cure catarrh sores ulcers salt rheum fever tetter chapped hands chilblains corns skin eruptions and piles with money-back guarantee. Sold by W Hayes, Drageist.
Corrected price list for wheat corn oats meal bacon flour and other staples. Guidance to prepare produce for market and maximize cash by selling Best Produce will command best price.
A composite clipping reports on Mr. Richard Riddle and son capturing two sea eagles after a storm, Wilkes County’s venerable Annie Parks aged 114, a Burling mystery on a man’s sudden death during a wrestling bout, Vanderbilt’s land purchase dispute with a Black farmer, and assorted ads and notes about dyspepsia cures and book sales in Orange County.
A humorous 19th century vignette asks how a girl knows she is in love describing constant thoughts, nerves, upset when late, and vanity over a suitor's feet. It promotes liver health cures and local notices about speaking engagements and remedies like Electric Bitters and a rheumatism cure.
Farmers offered by N. W. Brown & Co for dried fruit with granny-like prices. Apples 1 to 3 cents average 2, peaches 2 to 7 cents average 6, damsons and plums 5 cents, cherries 2 to ? cents. Damp sour fruit half price and not wanted. Produce must pay cash to fund payments. Brown's Iron Bitters ad ends.
An 19th century advert claims English Spayin Linimeny removes all hard or calloused lumps splints sprains and swollen throats in horses. The remedy purports to cure blood spavins and other ailments with a single bottle. A. Iayles, Druggist, Hillsboro.
Formerly of Orange county now in Rougemont on the Norfolk and Western Road in Durham county he offers wagon and coffin making and undertaking services. Having qualified as administrator at the estate of McDade, all persons with claims must present them on or before August 1 to be barred.
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