14 Jun 1900
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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1900
Page
1
The item covers Pretoria’s surrender and Boer resistance outlook, racial bias in burial practices, Empress Dowager of China and Boxer contention, Rabbi Browne’s view on McKinley, and promotes Perry Davis Pain Killer as a household staple. It mixes war sentiment, ethnic politics, and a medical remedy within a single column.
North Carolina tobacco farmers are urged to combat insects and fungi with soap and lime dusts, timing three applications post-planting, and avoiding harvest-15 days prior. Key pests include flea beetles, horn worms, boll worms, leaf miners, cutworms, grasshoppers, with recommended Paris green mixtures, dusts, and soil stirrings. Authors seek diseased plant and insect samples for study, inviting correspondence to Entomologist Gerald McCarthy, Raleigh, June 1, 1900.
Clifford Howard writes in the June Ladies' Home Journal about how months got their names. January derives from Janus the two faced god, February from purifications, March from Mars, April from aperio open, May from Maia, Julius and Augustus influence, September to December from Latin numbers.
A reflective line urges finding a purpose in life even if it is to kill and sell oxen. It emphasizes giving strength of mind and body to one’s work, guided by faith and resolve, as a moral imperative.
An editorial piece argues farm journals neglect children on farms while praising cattle and crops. It urges departments for farm youth, warns fathers and mothers to nurture ambitions, and stresses the need to develop character and education over mere agricultural output.
Youth's Companion reports scientist projections that the Po delta will steadily expand northward, drying the northern Adriatic and eventually burying Venice under land. Prof Merinelli estimates centuries may pass before the sea dries, but the gulf is doomed. Also an ad for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver tablets from Whitehead & Co. offering a free sample.
A clipped promotional style note cites Thomas Carlyle and Oliver Wendell Holmes while urging Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to restore liver function and vitality. It mentions a sample at E T Whitehead & Co's drug store and a price of 25 cents, with a rough reflection on truth and resilience.
A Chamberlain's Cough Remedy endorsement from Druggist J. Goldsmith of Van Etten New York praises its use in his own family and by customers for ordinary coughs colds and coughs after la grippe. E T Whitehead & Co. Druggists supply the remedy.
Washington Branch trains depart at 8 10 a m and 2 29 p m bound for Parmele with arrivals around 8 10 a m and 9 7 p m. Returns from Parmele depart 3 0 p m and 11 00 a m, daily except Sunday. Tarboro and Plymouth routes run daily except Sunday with evening arrivals and Sunday timing. Midland N C Branch to Smithfield via Goldsboro and Weldon connections. Nashville, Spring Hope, Clinton Branch services with listed outbound and return times, daily except Sunday. No. 76 provides through connections for points north via Richmond. Operators: H M Emerson J R Kenly T M Emerson. FOR MALARIA.
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