State pen farm to shift to Atlanta goods contract
The state penitentiary will abandon most farm operations on Caledonia and 4500 acres, taking on a contract to manufacture risen goods for Standard Manufacturing Co of Atlanta. Convicts will make pants and overalls, with the state paid 62 cents daily per convict, and 0 to 300 convicts to work, including disabled workers. Work starts March first. A temperance group in Raleigh forms the Anti-Saloon League of North Carolina, with N B Broughton as president and a threefold plan: agitation legislation law enforcement. The league pledges nonpartisan stance and aims to abolish the liquor saloon.
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Caledonia Farm
Standard
Atlanta
the News and Observer
Tlanta
Temperance
Raleigh
Ag Id
Antaleon League
North Carona
N. B. Broughton
Rel‘gh
T. Nrey
The
Christian Advocate
J C Blair Asurer
Eigh
Rk. Pne
League
Morning Post
North Carolina State Uv
Itzel
Anti-Saloon League
Remarkable career of James W Tufts noted in Pinehurst obituary
The death of James W Tufts, born in 1834 in Boston, is recorded with tribute to his diverse ventures from the Arctic Soda Fountain to silverware works. He funded Pinehurst development, creating a resort town for consumptives and executives, including the Carolina hotel and other estates. He left a wife and two married children.
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James W. Tufts
Pinehurst
Charlotte Observer
Boston
Observer
Pines
Tufts
Ufts
Presidert Hubbard
Bost N Troad Aid Society
Hollywood
Berkshire
Magnolia
Concord
Pine Grove
Carolina
Harvard
What Cotton Mills Do
The Wilmington Star notes farmers largely back cotton mills, which employ about 44,544 workers across North Carolina’s 285 mills in 53 counties. Mills buy farm goods, create a home market, boost land values, encourage better farming, crop diversification, and livestock development, benefiting farmers broadly.
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Wilmington Star
State Commissioner of Labor and Printing
Wollen
Allen's Foot-Ease powder cures chilblains and frostbite
Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease a powder. It cures chilblains frostbites damp sweating swollen feet all druggists and abb stores 250
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Allen
Self Reliance Education Lesson From Beecher Story
Henry Ward Beecher recalled a teacher who demanded self reliance in mathematics. The tutor rejected excuses and insisted on knowing the lesson, pushing the student to master understanding. The method built intellectual independence and courage, culminating in the student answering with conviction even when progress paused.
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Southern Educational Journal
Henry Ward Beecher
Mathematica
Teeson
Tadpole evolution and transformation from gilled tadpoles
The piece explains how frogs and toads originate from tadpoles, noting that the changeling is born with gills and lives underwater until transformation begins. It describes how lungs replace gills, the tail vanishes, legs develop, and a land-dwelling animal results.
How to Renew the Old Black Silk Dress
February Ladies Home Journal offers simple steps to refresh an old black silk gown. Add bell sleeves with embroidered muslin undersleeves, a round yoke bodice trim, a collar, and a front ruffle. Outline the yoke and skirt edge with narrow velvet ribbon for a renewed, stylish appearance.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Spanish Count Endorses Peruna For La Grippe Cure
Count Segundo de Ovies, an exile from Orietto in northern Spain, praises Peruna in a letter to The Peruna Medicine Co. of Columbus, Ohio, recounting his travel, wealth, and la grippe recovery. The ad touts Peruna as a cure for la grippe and chronic catarrh, with endorsements from Henry Distin and others and an offer for free medical advice from Dr. Hartman.
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Segundo de Ovies
Louis de Ovies
John Quincy Adama
Florida
United States
Spain
Orietto
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Comet
Peruna
Canfield
Atlantic City
N. J
Julian Segundo
Conde DE
Henry Distin
Henry Distin Manufacturing Co
South Ninthstreet
Philadelphia
Hariman
Hartman
Hartman Sanitorini
Parody on sanitation warns of unsafe well water
A January feature from the N C Bulletin presents a parody of The Old Oaken Bucket by Dr J C Bayles. It underscores sanitation lessons about farm water quality and the dangers of well water through vivid, cautionary verse and commentary from Engineering News reprinting.
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N. C. Bulletin
J. C. Bayles
New York City Health Board
Academy of Medicine
Engineering News
The Doctor in China. Selected tale
A physician in China mismanages a case and is seized by an angry family who tie him up. He frees himself in the night and escapes by swimming a river. Home, he finds his son studying medicine and warns that learning to swim is essential before books. For ease of digestion, Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are offered at 25 cents with free samples. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co.
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Pinehurst
Mratts
Tufts
Medford
Mass
Auramer
Cottage City
Edward E. Wale
Tufte
China
Chamberlain
Ty E. T. Whitehead & Co
Time standard procedure in Washington noon beat system
The article explains how the U S government determines true noon time using the Washington observatory clock and electric signal distribution. It describes pre noon silence on telegraph lines, the noon beat, time ball drops, and automatic clock corrections in the building, noting the 77th meridian reference and regional hour differences. It ends with a drug advert for Chamberlain’s stomach and liver tablets priced at 25 cents.
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United States
Astronomical Observatory
Washington
State
War and Navy Department
Rocky Mountain Belt
E. T. Whitehead & Co
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Newington
Aver
Wee Willing
Ayer
Lowell
Megai Gars
Bock Ress Sterling
York
Builai Hime
Y Wisbarley
Weice Eotel Lawrenor
Necx
N.C
Vieus
Stuart H. Emith
Tyler & Catterbridge
Tland Neck, N.C
Travis
Halifax
N.C. Snes
VaGi
D Pictre
John Bayatt
Brown
Chasm Walsh Gam Marble and Grant Works
Shug
Enutl
C. Ding
Scientific American
Haunn & Cn
Thiane
James W. Tufta
Rocky Mount
Maine
Iag
Mr. Tofte
North Carolina
Jas. W. Tufts
LA Grippe
Count DE Oviey
Fleury Distin
Wessel
Byron
Pyuy-Balsems
Sciense
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