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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1902
Page
1
A column reprints a Littleton News Report note on declining drunkenness and growing temperance sentiment, urging support for State Fair funding. It covers Butler College pie versus ice cream debate, Ex Congressman John W Atwater?s independent bid, and The Chatham Record criticism of Democratic nomination disputes, arguing consistency and fairness in party decisions.
An Outlook Annual Recreation piece recounts William J. Long on bears and Mooween the beech-tree climber. The bear’s swift, gravity driven descent and sudden bursts of action are contrasted with human clumsiness and caution.
A West Virginia pharmacist reports a man healed of cancer after using Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The ad asserts Bitters cleanse poisons, aid blood and skin conditions, and that the salve heals ulcers and sores. Available at E. T. Whitehead & Co for 50 cents and 25 cents.
The piece quotes Augusta W. Cocke's The Deserted Village from The Outlook about nature and ruin, then a Salisbury Sun note praising Representative Thompson for hosting Northern and Western congressmen in the South to better understand race relations. Representative Darrough reports no need for federal intervention, hoping the trip sharpens impartial views and dispels errors.
A Indianapolis News representative asks an architect about what force harms buildings. The architect cites regular violin vibrations as powerful and capable of weakening brick stone and iron structures with continuous, long term exposure. He notes unseen force and steady rhythm can loosen masonry and make iron brittle.
A reader from Town, Va., R. N. Bagill, praises Buckley’s Arnica Salve for curing their daughter’s scald head and endorses it for cuts burns and other ailments. The ad notes 25 cents at T. Whitehead & Co’s drug store and claims it is infallible for piles.
Dr Hartman of the Hartman Sanitarium prescribes Pernna as the chief remedy for female diseases and will treat cases by correspondence during the summer. Confidential treatment, medicines obtainable at drug stores, and no public trials. Many testimonials claim cures, including long-term illness relief and general well being.
The Charlotte Observer recounts J Sterling Morton secretary of agriculture and editor of The Conservative Nebraska City whose wife’s grave bears a tombstone inscription. He once told his sons to disown any dishonorable act by removing their mother’s name from the stone, a vivid moral lesson he described as the strongest warning against dishonor. It is urged as a story for schools and parents to share with children.
An old advertisement claims sacred cows and human bodies faulted by constipation deserve cleanse. Dr. King's New Life Pills promise lively livers and active bowels with improved digestion. Available for 25 cents at E. T. Whitehead & Co's drug store.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat column distinguishes ordinary daily risks from true extraordinary danger. It argues the phrase misstates danger, citing firefighters and rescuers as examples of genuine heroism beyond routine perils.
New York correspondent reports a sky object fell at d p m in Hollis near Jamaica LT into a three foot long oval hole. Three men hoisted a glowing metallic mass from the crater into a kitchen. Neighbors examined the coppery egg shaped fragment. some think meteorite others Mount Pylea origin. A sulfurous vapor rose when water cooled the red hot mass.
A colonial Virginia tale explains the phrase eating crow after an English soldier who was ordered to eat part of a crow by a farmer and then threatened to shoot the farmer unless the remainder was eaten. The note appears in MecDorrix's YasTeuEss Cun, Cumk advertising a tonic with a price of 60 cents offered by B. T. Whitehead & Co.
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