North Carolina Senate and House Proceedings Brief
The North Carolina General Assembly met with low attendance, debating quail hunting bans, liquor law reforms, and salaries for officials. Measures included East Carolina Training School funding, local option on prohibition, bill to name candidates, and drainage improvements amid ongoing committee referrals and adjournment talk.
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Blow
East Carolina Training School
T. J. Jar
J. Y. Joyner
Y.T. Ormond
House of Representatives
Senate Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court Actions Highlight Trust and Public Utility Rulings
The Supreme Court affirmed Texas action against the Standard Oil trust by appointing a receiver, marking a major stand against trust power. It also ruled the 80 cent gas rate law permissible if a six percent return on actual value is preserved, allowing public utilities to set rates. North Carolina 1908 crop values climbed notably with corn and tobacco leading. A state audit committee criticized the insurance department's bookkeeping and urged double-entry systems, condemning unapproved servant-payments since 1885. The President warns against California Bills limiting Japanese land ownership and school segregation. North Carolina TB society held a Charlotte convention urging broader public action and education to combat the disease.
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Empie
North Carolina
North Carolina For A Period of Two Years. Mr. Burton
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Dockery
Supreme Court of the United States
Texas
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General Assembly
Department of Insurance
Council of State
Composite Mosaic Poem From The Scrap Book
An assembled quotation poem from The Scrap Book blends lines from Shakespeare Milton Dryden and others. It quotes reflections on life fate and virtue attributed to poets such as Johnson Pope Spencer Daniel Raleigh Longfellow and others in a collage that contrasts ambition pleasure and mortality.
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Shakespeare
Milton
Dryden
The Suitor and the Doctor Claim Bucklen Amica Salve Cure
In a fragment from a 19th century ad style narrative, John Washington reports healing from sores after using Bucklen’s Amica Salve, claiming cures for boils and blood poison. The text references Bosqueville Texas and a parlor clock misset, with terse dialogue about medical failure and relief.
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Johnny
Hite
Ten Business Commandments Recalled For Prosperity
A newspaper excerpt presents ten business commandments urging action, integrity, and self-advocacy. It stresses diligent work, neat appearance, independent judgment, avoiding debt, and living within income. It promotes saying no when needed and insists on fair dealing as foundational to law and profits.
Bids Opened for Wireless Tower for Washington Naval Use
The Navy Department opened bids for a wireless tower to serve ships at sea, with nonstop operation and a 3000 mile navigable radius from Washington. It also invited bids for two apparatus sets to relay messages over 1090 miles and receive from Washington up to 3000 miles. Seven firms bid, led by National Electric Signaling Company of Pittsburgh at 182000 dollars.
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Tive
National Electric Signaling Company of
Pittsburg
Nobility and True Worth in Honest Living
The poem asserts true nobility lies in daily deeds and kindness rather than birth or glory. It extols honesty as royal, deeds over dreams, and the struggle to act rightly despite envy or malice, concluding that noble character defines worth more than fortune. Alice Carey is credited.
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Peele
Spence
Alice Carey
Civilized Poverty: quote about city slums and misery
A clipped Clarion opinion condemns urban poverty, calling civilized poverty more brutal and loathsome than any other form. It decries the squalor of city slums, dens of vice, pawnshops, and opulent palaces as a stark contrast to dignity and humanity.
How Dreams Come True
A short inspirational note explaining that personal dreams become real through work for others. It argues that helping the world realize others dreams leads to one’s own dreams being realized, with emphasis on effort, pay, and reciprocal outcome. The Denilator attributes the idea to a moral guidance line.
Soldier Balks Death Plot in Civil War Veteran Tale
Kemp Texas resident A Stone a Civil War veteran narrates fending off a death plot by a desperate gang. He describes years of stubborn cough and weight loss then credits Dr Kings Now Discovery with restoring health to 178 pounds. The ad promotes a trial bottle guaranteed by E T Whitehead Company for ailments from colds to pneumonia.
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A. Stone
Kemp
Tex
Dr. King
E. T. Whitehead Company
Happy Schooldays Abrupt Departure at First-Year School
Tommy bids farewell to his first year at school telling his teacher he is very sorry to leave after brief, fond recollections of recess times. This reminiscence reflects a child’s attachment to school life and the sense of transition at year’s end.
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Tommy
Goodby
Lippincott’s
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