18 Nov 1909
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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1909
Page
1
Public health authorities announce a Sanitary Sunday on November 2 to promote tuberculosis education and prevention. An open letter urges ministers to preach on sanitation and the fight against tuberculosis, urging a community effort and organized local action.
Rest Aller Meals and heavy eating drain nerve energy and trigger dyspepsia. Slowed, distracted meals strain digestion. allow the stomach half an hour to work before redirecting nervous force. We often know others duties but struggle with our own actions.
The Charlotte Chronicle endorses Governor Kitchin for his steady duties and candid approach. It notes his willingness to meet with people across the state, rejecting flattery, and highlighting his decision to introduce President Taft in Wilmington next month as evidence of remaining engaged beyond Raleigh.
The Wilkesboro Chronicle argues that while society improves, the present generation lacks the authoritative respect of the past. It cites indulgent parenting, lax school discipline, and fear of angry parents as leading to youths who resist law, misbehave in public, and even carry weapons to church.
The poet Joaquin Miller reflects that praise and blame in men are flawed indicators, finding goodness in the condemned and sin in the divine. He cautions against drawing lines where God has not.
From The Literary Digest a writer in Revue Scientifique notes experiments by Irving Fisher on health subjects comparing flesh eaters and vegetarians. He cites Haig and Chittenden theories on uric acid fatigue poisons and carbohydrate burning, concluding meat abstention may extend endurance and that gradual adoption aids adaptation.
A chaotic collage of quotes and ads shows an Italian laborer stuck in mud near Harlem River, with onlookers debating rescue and a random ad for Chamberlin's Liniment. The piece blends slang dialogue, a cheesy sales pitch, and a joke from Everybody's Magazine with a judge’s remark about a girl and boys.
A fragment describes Mrs Maria horrified by a scalded boy’s shrieks and a claim that Buck-Saive wholly cures severe burns and wounds. The ad from E. T. Whitehead Company touts cures for fever-sores skin eruptions chilblains and other ailments with no verifiable details.
The New Haven Union outlines a partial list of women deemed richest in America, detailing bequests and shares from husbands’ estates. Names include Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr, Marshall Field, Russell Sage, Hetty Green, Phoebe Hearst, and others with fortunes ranging from millions to hundreds of millions.
Six large U S shoe factories produced about 25 million pairs of shoes last year and $340 million in value. Rubber trade rose but 70 million was spent on rubbers. Vegetarianism preaching impacts shoe business. meat sales affect hides and leather supply. Foreign shoe trade grows as American salesmen push bunions abroad. Dean's Ointment advertises eczema relief. sold by all druggists.
A satirical riff on fat men and government interest critiques the Department of Agriculture and its theories. The piece mocks the idea that stout citizens are like livestock and jokes about cooling, padding, and even ballooning as remedies, reflecting humorous newspaper opinion from the era.
The article describes early railway tickets and procedures from the Railway Magazine. Clerks used a divided book with detachable slips showing issuing station, destination, passenger name, issue date, and departure time. Passengers swapped a slip for fare, then guards maintained a waybill with passenger details, often relegating third class to open carriages attached to freight.
An elderly man taunts a store clerk at a downtown dry goods shop about dried beef and crackers, joking that love is wisdom. The advertisement promotes Burdock Blood Bitters and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as tonics for health, vitality, and long life, urging simple living and exercise.
A practical month plan lists tasks across farming and households. Finish sowing wheat and rye on idle land, store cotton dry, start hog fattening, inspect and treat young stock for lice, clean poultry houses, secure machinery under shelter, plant fruit trees and shrubs, stock firewood, drain wetlands where possible, and ensure winter reading with Practical Farmer materials.
Penitentiary authorities report a strong cotton crop with over 500 bales picked on Roanoke river farm and a record total above 1 000 bales. China expands military and naval plans. Rockefeller offers one million dollars for hookworm cure. Chamberlains Cough Remedy sold locally. Unclear quotes and ad snippets provide period flavor.
A Glen Oak Oklahoma man, Win Upehureh, went into exile seeking Mountain air to cure a two year lung cough. After returning he used Pan Discovery, took six bottles, and reports relief from coughs and colds. The ad claims it cures bronchitis asthma croup whooping cough and other illnesses. Trial bottle offered free with guaranteed sauce by Whitehead Company.
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