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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1900
Page
2
The paper seeks 500 new subscribers by continuing a Farm Journal arrangement offering Commonwealth one year and Farm Journal five years for $1.00. Old subscribers paying arrears plus one year in advance eligible. Democratic notices from Edgecombe and Halifax counties recap nominations and a Halifax primary convention set for March 23 with county convention March 29, 1900.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture promotes a new rice variety from Japan claiming easier cultivation and higher profits. It tolerates non flooded growing, suitable for bottom lands along the Roanoke Neuse Tar and Cape Fear rivers. Interested farmers may request a free seed package and cultivation instructions by mailing their names to Gerald McCarthy in Raleigh, N.C.
MR HAMMILL DEAD. In Enfield North Carolina on February 27 1900 T S Hamill fell ill last Thursday died Saturday and was buried Sunday at Antioch church The tone reflects a local telegraphic notice and includes brief community items about Dr Stallings tearing down the old hotel and a church sermon by Rev J H Page amid cold weather notes and bank cashier returning to post after illness
Dr D B Cargile of Washita I T reports four bottles of Electric Bitters cured Mrs Brewer after years of scrofula and terrible facial sores. The tonic is praised as a blood purifier and remedy for eczema ulcers boils and running sores. It stimulates the liver kidneys and bowels aids digestion and builds strength. Sold for 50 cents by E T Whitehead & Co Druggist with guarantee.
A special dispatch from Roxeieu North Carolina argues for a representative State Convention to reflect a statewide Democratic will. It explains the plan of organization to cast precinct and county votes by delegate preferences, warnings against unit rules, and urges fair, individual county votes to nominate and elect state officers. The piece also notes a patent medicine ad at the end.
A late February briefing notes the Democratic National Convention will convene in Kansas City on July 4, with Milwaukee and Philadelphia discussed as possible sites for rival gatherings. It analyzes timing, party leadership, and the need for unity while highlighting Senator Gorman’s call for harmony and a broad platform opposing imperialism.
Col William Cecil Elam editor of the Norfolk Virginia Pilot died at his Louise County home last Saturday aged 63 He was a strong writer and one of Virginia's ablest journalists whose place on the state press will be hard to fill
An old advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the eustachian tube. It promises one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes Hall's Family Pills, with Toledo, Ohio origin and druggist sales at 75 cents.
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