15 Jan 1903
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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1903
Page
1
The piece notes broad price increases for labor and provisions and highlights North Carolina liquor questions and a push for better roads. It argues drainage as key to Eastern Carolina road quality, urges farmers to plan self sustaining crops, and raises concerns about rural post office service and mail delivery reliability.
Chicago Health Department reports lemon juice can kill typhoid germs in water after three days of experiments. A teaspoon in half a glass of water repeatedly destroyed all bacilli. further tests planned to find the minimal effective amount. Dr. Asa Ferguson’s Christmas discovery spurred the research into citric acid as a potential cheaper alternative.
A New York State farmers institute reader shares a poultry winter egg method. Feed a corn oats bran mix with additional ground wheat animal meal and skim milk, in timed portions. provide green top feed at noon, light grain later, and a 3:30 p m night feed. Offer oyster shells dust baths water and roost kerosine oil and insect powder. Early hatched pullets through molt yield eggs all winter.
A self promotion for Dr. J Newton Hathaway claiming top reputation and long establishment. It promises personal attention and confidential care with associated physicians and free booklets if calling isn t possible.
A reflective essay questions long standing links between birth, environment, and crime. It argues vice can be contagious yet individual will remains decisive, citing examples of criminals with good upbringings and virtuous lives born from harsh surroundings. It concludes that willpower outweighs heredity and environment.
A irate businessman confronts the proof reader over an ad print error in Lippincott's Magazine. The man complains his dairy butter invoice ad was printed as baby butter every day, prompting a correction and tension in the paper's business office.
Wiosington, N. C. observer Ros King, 83, lives with Policeman B. P. King on Seventol near Woost Street. She has over 100 direct descendants. Monday night a birthday party hosted by Mrs King drew 55 descendants. Five minister sons conducted devotional exercises and presented a gift for Grandma King.
An advertisement extols Buschee's German Syrup as a universal cure for consumption and long troubles since 1868. It promotes its superiority over cheaper cough remedies for severe coughs bronchitis and croup and notes a new 25 cent size with regular 75 cent price available at druggists.
Letters from William Young blood Rufus Merchant David Wilber Irvine Dungan and other lawmakers praise Peruna as a catarrh cure and spring tonic. The company notes thirty eight congress members attest to its virtues and urges readers to request the testimonial book from The Peruna Medicine Co. in Columbus Ohio.
The fragment quotes a buyer complaining the dog he bought, claimed to catch rats, fails to touch a rat. A counter remark mocks the buyer, asking if the rats are fine. A separate line satirizes little men who claim to have advised great men.
H A Tisdale of Summer ton DC claims twenty years of piles and skin trouble vanished after using LeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. The product combines witch hazel with antiseptics and emollients to ease and cure piles sores cuts eczema and other skin diseases. E T White head Co notes fewer marriages would fail if couples hid hypocrisy in courtship.
The advertisement guarantees satisfaction with Cham berlain's Cough Remedy. It promises refunds after use of two thirds of the bottle if not satisfied and claims efficacy for grippe coughs colds croup and whooping cough while noting safety and pleasant taste. E T Whitehead & Co Scotland Neck Leggett's Drug Store Hobgood NC are listed.
An advertisement from Hall's Catarrh Cure proclaims a proven cure for catarrh in all stages. It asserts constitutional treatment via Vall's Catarrh Cure, claims to destroy the disease's foundation, and offers $100 for any case that fails to cure. Includes testimonials and Toledo address.
A noted Chamberlains Cough Remedy is advertised as the quickest cure for croup symptoms, with mothers urged to use it without delay. The ad lists LE. T. White Head & Co in Scotland Neck and Leggett's Drug Store in Hebgood as sellers and promises rapid symptom relief when used as directed.
A quotation from John Hamilton Thom emphasizes that effort and true faith matter more than outward triumph. It reflects a philosophy valuing inner virtue over visible results and urges steadfastness when success is scarce.
An endorsement from Hi Williams of San Antonio Texas lauds DeWitt's Little Early River Pills. The testimonial claims relief from constipation biliousness sick headache torpid liver jaundice malaria and related disorders. E T Whitehead & Co. distributes the product.
Mr Lamb of Scotland Neck North Carolina reports a pear crop illness cured after using Hancock's Liquid Sulphur. After several applications the disease improved and was declared entirely cured within three weeks. The statement is dated October 27, 1902.
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