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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1910
Page
1
Readers note recurring health issues among men aged around 28 due to kidney and bladder troubles. Medical advice highlights dietary adjustments and early treatment to ease misery and restore well being.
The Greenville Reflector reports resolutions from the Wrightsville editors addressing state issues. Support for a Nye monument, Panama Exposition site in New Orleans, aid for Stonewall Jackson Training School, public health education, and expanded road-building with convict labor and state funding. Also endorses weekly coverage of the Womans Improvement Association and notes a Victorian quip about palmistry.
The Coston reports a Birmingham Age-Herald essay on the Panama Canal and Southern trade, noting the canal’s impact on Gulf ports, New Orleans, and South's industry. The June 11 1910 Round Table Club meeting at Miss Sally Baker’s home in Palmyra concluded with a study course on Renaissance Europe, officer elections, and a garden reception before adjournment to September.
A satirical riff questions the idea that raising prices can end misery. Dr Gary of the steel trust touts a medicine to make the poor content by higher costs, arguing wage and price rises will supposedly fuel universal happiness and national prosperity.
The Durham to Person County road, built at 75 dollars, boosted tobacco delivery to Durham by about two million pounds in the past year. Farmers using dependable roads earned an average price of thirteen and a fraction cents, about a quarter to three quarters of a cent above prior records. The note, from the Charlotte Observer, argues road improvement aids market access and pricing for farmers in connected counties.
John Michels of Raleigh North Carolina argues cowpea hay is cheaper for milk production than cottonseed hulls. He suggests a ration of one third cottonseed meal one third corn meal and one third wheat bran with one pound of grain per four to five pounds of milk. If roughage is poorer like corn stover grain should be one to three pounds per milk unit.
C J Budlong of Washington Route 1 warns that hereditary kidney trouble can worsen without care and says four bottles of Foley's Kidney Remedy cured him. He urges others not to neglect treatment and notes the product is sold by all druggists.
Local notes report visits by T. G. King from Rocky Mount and many others from Enfield Weldon Scotland Neck and Petersburg. Readers recount trips to Cedar Bluff and Raleigh and share word of events including Rev C G Bradley's sermon and a disturbance after a prohibition law enforcement incident. A North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts progress note highlights student industry. An advertisement spot features Dr King's New Discovery for coughs and lung troubles with local endorsement.
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