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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
3
Before you buy a Cunivato see the Queen of the Fre'd a R C Josey & Co Hardware Store. Planet Jr Horse Hoe and Cultivator at their Hardware Store. One machine to plant cotton corn and peanuts. Thoroughly tested and proved perfect. Everyone guaranteed. Hurry before they are gone. R C Josey & Co Saw Store.
N B Josey promotes a spring catalog featuring Toularis $2.00 shoes for women and children, Nelson's Custom Fit Shoes, Boston Shirts, straw hats, and a new line of ties. Gents’ furnishings include collars cuffs suspenders and summer underwear, with lawns and dress goods highlighted.
Fragmentary ad style text touts a medical triumph claimed to cure back pain and kidney trouble. It references newspaper readers and a Dr. Ain, with garbled phrases and uncertain claims about a nineteenth century breakthrough.
Dr H I Clark has moved his office to the Hotel building second door from entrance. A colored widow Alice Mitchell lost her house by fire and her children were in the fields except a boy who was unhurt in a room away from the blaze. The editor at Ter ComMoNWEALTH plans to attend Halifax county commissioners session Monday and urges delinquent subscribers to pay. The Carolina Telephone Company adds poles, extending lines from Scotland Neck to Halifax and Tarboro to Scotland Neck with completion expected by early June.
Reverend Sam Jones will lecture at Fut Trell's Opera House in Scotland Neck on May 23. The notice urges prompt seat purchases to avoid sold out seating, especially for distant attendees.
A colored brakeman fell from a freight train between Conoho and Hobgood on Friday. He suffered severe injuries as wheels crushed both legs. He was taken to Hobgood for treatment, then transported to Rocky Mount for further care.
Mr. T. W. McBryde, foreman for the Reflector office in Greenville, died Saturday morning at age 31 after a sequence of family tragedies. He had returned to Greenville April 3 after caring for a sick mother and sisters near Jonesboro, then fell ill with pneumonia on April 14 and passed away despite a hard fight. He was well regarded in the community.
On Saturday at 3 PM eight year old Kate Condrey celebrated her birthday with friends at a hotel dining hall. The room featured green decorations, a centerpiece pink cake with eight candles, and an abundance of cake, cream, and fruits for the guests who wished her many future anniversaries.
It claims startling cures for consumption by cutting phlegm and mucus and enriching the blood with oxygen. The ad asserts the medicine soothes coughing and inflames the lungs, presenting a vivid, promotional narrative.
Mrs. RB E Hancock visited Washington City. Miss Kate Bagley saw Mrs. Merrell of Hobgood. Miss Mattie Nichole came from Williamston to visit friends. Miss Maggie Bell of Hobgood visited locally. Annie Dunn of Weldon spent a night home. J D Perry came from Roanoke Rapids for a few days. Multiple residents travel for visits and a Baptist meeting in Richmond with Rev J E Hutson delivering a successful evangelist meeting.
Rev Sam Jones arrives in Scotland Neck for a May 28 lecture. It marks the first opportunity for locals to hear this renowned platform lecturer. Seats will be limited and on sale at Futrell Hard y Hardware store.
Sam Jones held Evansville's crowd last night for an hour and a half, delivering quaint fresh sentences with humor and force. The lecture drew strong praise as a valuable show, with the speaker praised for voice, strong manner, and a memorable performance that won over the audience.
Mrs Edmondson, 66, long suffering yet enduring, died last Friday. She cared for others, supported the Scot land Neck Baptist church, and gave aid to infants. Survived by a daughter Mrs R C Josey, sister Mrs W H Taylor, and brothers Meas T E Alpheus and Watts Powell. Interred beside her husband in Episcopal cemetery after brief services by Rev M L Kesler and Rev G W Phelps.
John B. Gray reports a large loss of five hundred cords of wood buried in the Palmyra woods. Fire broke out Sunday morning while Gray was at church, consuming the penned timber before he learned of the flames. Cause not yet known.
An advertisement promotes Sucklen's Arnica Salve as a quick cure for ulcers fever sores eczema and other skin ailments. It claims relief from itching burning and rashes and lists 252 as the price at E T Whitehead and Co's drug store.
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