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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1893
Page
2
The column mixes assorted items from the era including court notes, church painting duties, university headcounts, expo deadlines, and tobacco industry updates. It references the Confederacy, Dur ham cigarettes, and public finance, with scattered anecdotes on courts, agriculture, and medicine.
The excerpt discusses bimettalism and its collapse under the Bland Allison era. It notes gold and silver as equal in debt paying power, claims no bimettalism since 1873, and references the push and failure of bi metallic standards in U S monetary policy.
An old advertisement block touts Humphreys Specitic No 7 for coughs and colds and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for wounds and skin ailments. It lists a long array of medicines and patent cures, mentions prices, and markets tonic products from Canada to Cape Horn. It also includes a Confederate Depot price list and general market rates for farm goods and produce.
The writer describes San Francisco’s bustling streets and jobs, then details the Santa Clara Valley fruit industry, San Jose shipping, and the Tehama county Villa ranch vineyard. He mentions road dust control, the Chinese question, and a vivid store cellar housing many Chinese residents. He ends with Min Winter Fair prep and plans to travel to Los Angeles and San Diego.
During a severe storm in Hillsboro lightning struck five times. Afterward a large and beautiful assortment of J. C. Blair's Writing Tablets arrived at the Hillsboro Book Store. Also advertised are Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and Neuralgia and Browns Iron Bitters with local druggist W. A. Hayes.
An advertisement extols Simmons Liver Regulator as a remedy for a diseased liver and related symptoms. It claims the product restores health by purifying the blood and improving vitality, presenting a persuasive tone characteristic of period patent medicine pitches.
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