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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
2
An ad urges mothers to raise healthy daughters with Stella Vitae a remedy guaranteed to benefit or money back. It cites Thacher Medicine Co Chattanooga Tennessee and mocks prejudice against the product. The snippet also includes a vignette of Mrs Farthingale and her fox fur as a family moment with a child questioning if grandma had a tail.
A farmer identified as A. B. McCloskey near Hyner was mauled by a she bear in his barnyard. He was seriously wounded, with his left arm and leg mangled, after the bear entered the yard seeking food. Mrs. McCloskey fought the animal off with a club, and a posse led by B. B. McCloskey pursued the bear but found no trace. The same bear is thought to have carried off a live calf nearby days earlier.
A fragmentary dialogue opens with playful banter about hair color and a sharp exchange on fair questions. The piece pivots to a social quip about political life and the value of good disposition over wealth, reflecting witty, era-appropriate aphorisms.
The North Carolina State Board of Agriculture opened its semi annual session in Raleigh with Commissioner W A Graham detailing the department’s work over the past year. Highlights include record 1913 crop values, farm land valuation at 221 million dollars, and farm product value over 260 million. The board approved a 125000 dollar six month budget, recommended making the soil survey a standalone division, and outlined plans for the Panama Pacific Exposition representation with a 50000 dollar exhibit cost.
Dr. R H Lewis sent his resignation as secretary of the UNC board of trustees to Governor Craig citing physical inability to continue or attend the upcoming annual meeting this week. Gov. Craig praised Lewis as a loyal and useful friend of the University. Seaboard Case Postponed To July Term In Wake Superior Court State vs Seaboard Air Line concerns books of agents showing liquor receipts consignments and contention over interstate commerce act limits on inspection.
Adjutant-General Young reports the joint camps of instruction move from Augusta Georgia to North and South Carolina Georgia and Florida. Regular troops will attend each camp with the North Carolina event at Camp Glenn Morehead City kicking off in July for ten days. Other units may join at different times and dates will be released soon.
The board of agriculture elects oil inspectors Marvin M. Jones Belhaven Jacob Thompson Pittsboro J H Watson Graham C J Taylor Laurel Springs C S Corpening Horse Shoe for the coming year. In Lenoir County about 275 farms face cattle tick eradication quarantines under the National Department of Agriculture plan. quarantine to lift late fall. J K Gennings agency agent to stay indefinitely. H A Hayes sought in Illinois for embezzlement. requisition issued. Hayes arrested in Chicago. Winston Salem officer J A Thomas to pursue fugitive.
A Hawthorne grammar school principal in Oak Park Illinois explained the origin of the word news. He said it comes from the initials of the four compass points North East West and South. The remark reflects a common newspaper notion of news as coming from all directions.
Advertising columns mirror business activity across regions, highlighting how ads convey the day’s happenings. The piece argues readers gain fuller information by combining news with advertisements, reflecting changing views on knowledge across ages.
Exceedingly dry weather around Warsaw injures truck and farm crops. Irish potatoes may yield only one fifth normal. Strawberries between Goldsboro and Wilmington face thousands in losses. Southern Express moves truck crops to Northern markets.
Five men rode in an automobile struck by a passenger train at a railway crossing. P M Hunt of Greensboro was instantly killed as the car stalled on the track between two companions who escaped unharmed. Other items note awards won by a baby in a fair contest, Augustus L Quickel’s career, a fire threat on a C N W trestle, and various regional notices.
A collection of humorous observations on language and society. Notes compare telephone use in China, Paris cinema popularity, suffrage protests, auto metaphors, Mars wind, and a British comma law. The piece blends satire on communication, gender rights, and legal punctuation.
Police officer John T. Carroll reports a long battle with eczema on his hands. After trying physicians with no success, he used Hancock's Sulphur Compound and Ointment with rapid improvement and was cured after 6 to 8 weeks of use followed by X-ray treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He endorses the product and notes it is sold by dealers.
A Washington woman recalls Ambassador Thomas Nelson Page and a humorous tea time exchange about a novel like chapter. The piece also promotes Elixir Babek for malaria and fever with testimonial and pricing, and ends with a parson misus e of phrasing about the calf kept for years and years.
A column of old time advertisements and jokes listing cures for rheumatism ivy poisoning and digestion remedies. It includes RUB-MY-TISM cures 25c Hanford's Balsam ivy poison remedy Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills and a string of light quips about marriage nerves and reading the paper.
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