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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1902
Page
1
Congress funds a canal bill favoring the Panama route, though doubts remain on construction. North Carolina braces for a temperance wave, aiming to aid the suffering without bias against saloon patrons. Editorial notes on newspapers and editor communications follow, alongside an advertisement for Botanic Blood Balm promising blood and skin cure.
A survey of writers and artists notes varied prewriting attire from Dumas sleeves rolled up to Buffon in full court dress. Scribes like Scribe favored neat dress, while Victor Hugo mimicked Michelangelo and Wagner wore velvet and a tam o’ shanter cap. Tedious habits include Conan Doyle’s absent-mindedness and Carroll’s aversion to red. Communications discuss clothing as a muse with examples from Thackeray pacing, Irving napping, Elliot dressing carefully, Burnett Townsend’s luxury settings, and Amelie Rives shaping gowns to suit mood.
A fragment notes Mother Gray presents a powder for feverishness bad odor teething disorders. The ad-like line hints at a remedy aimed at mother readers seeking child health aids and relief from infant ailments. The text is incomplete but suggests medical remedy marketing in a period newspaper.
A provocative editorial compares sacred cows defiling temples to a body polluted by constipation. It advocates public health action and promotes Dr New Life Pills as a solution to cleanse the system. The tone blends critique with marketing.
Ohio State Journal presents a series of whimsical arithmetic brain teasers about A and B neighbors, a $500 plano, wills and lawyers, doctors and patients, power lawn mowers, and a funeral time puzzle involving Mary and Johnnie. The items mix humor with improbable outcomes.
An old scrapbook reveals a Civil War era snippet from the Richmond Dispatch about Abraham Lincoln visiting Charleston District before his rise. Lincoln briefs a hotel slave on his view of equality but the slave cites responsibility for the silverware, delaying the breakfast.
At a small dinner Mark Twain and a Black guest shared a joke about Washington era recollections. Twain claimed the old colored man remembered steering the boat crossing the Delaware and driving the cherry tree back, proving long memories.
Advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder claims quick cure for painful feet callous and hot tired feet and growing nails. Promotes easy wear of tight shoes. Sold by druggists and stores. mail order 25 cents with trial package free. Address Allen Gimstead Le Roy NY.
Mrs C L Byron of 546 Lincoln Avenue Chicago head of the Chicago German Woman's Club endorses Peruna as a cure for bladder catarrh and female troubles. She reports dramatic improvement after starting the remedy and says she has had no recurrence for nearly a year. Free home advice offered by The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio.
In Redding California, more than 100 mining claims sprang up within four days after news of a promising gold ledge near the western base of the Shasta divide. A joke told in a French Gulch store sparked the discovery when William Ellis traced the vein, finding a two foot pay streak that assays from 100 to 500 dollars per ton and shows no sign of ending.
Cape May New Jersey dispatch reports George H White former congressman heads a syndicate that bought 9574 acres near Burleigh, near the Pennsylvania and Reading raids. The colored colony Whiteboro will be agricultural with colonists buying houses on installments and ten years to pay.
A fragmented timetable lists stops with times from Florence to Tarboro via Fayetteville Selma Wilson Rocky Mount and Wilmington. It shows arrivals and departures in scattered figures, indicating a partial rail or coach schedule from a historic route.
Train times detail multiple lines including Wilmington to Fayetteville and Sanford, Bennettaville to Maxton to Bennettsville, and branches to Weldon Halifax Kinston Washington Parmele and Tarboro. Connections at Fayetteville Maxton Red Springs Sanford Gulf Weldon and Washington with major railroads noted. Daily except Sunday services listed with arrival and departure times for each leg and branch.
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