02 Sep 1909
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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1909
Page
1
Incomplete OCR segment hints at a medical or health issue description. Mentions symptoms such as pain and bodily discomfort but lacks clear subject, date, or location details to identify a specific event or entity.
Suffolk Herald applauds Farmers Bank of Nansemond Suffolk Va for its status as first bank on the State Bank Roll of Honor. The Financier praises its large surplus over capital and prudent, community focused banking. Officers cited are Ed E. Holland president Georg e W. Truitt vice president and Wm H. Jones Jr cashier.
North Carolina especially its western end could become a premier apple region due to excellent fruit. The text laments marketing indifference and urges better selection and packing to compete with Oregon and Washington standards, noting NC apples are higher quality but unattractively presented. Also mentions health claims for Hollister's tea and a tonic.
Former Justice Brown speaks at Old Point Comfort on the divorce evil favoring sentiment as the remedy over courts and urging uniform state statutes. He notes bigamy due to varied laws and recommends immediate banns and cautious marriages, with lawyers leading the adoption of identical divorce laws across states. Baltimore American »
A Medical Record excerpt argues the popular fear of leprosy is inflated by fiction and stigma. It criticizes doctors for passively accepting myths, notes hospital isolation historically spread fear, and asserts leprosy is a harmless condition in contact within this climate, urging informed understanding over alarm.
A humorous quote from Tit-Bits recounts a man who refuses to be dictated to by his wife and falls downstairs after she warns him to be careful. The exchange highlights a playful clash of domestic authority and male stubbornness.
The E. T. Whitehead Co. reports unprecedented demand for Dr. King's New Life Pills. The tonic claims to cure sour stomach, constipation, indigestion, billiousness, jaundice, sick headache, chills and malaria. Only local agency.
The London Spectator argues that while few women are truly vain, dress remains a social marker across classes. It notes poor women strive to present themselves and their children well, planning and sacrificing to meet standards, while even servants and factory workers find pleasure in smart outfits amidst daily toil.
A Washington Star excerpt shows Farmer Cantessel bragging about modernizing a farm with a clothesline, mosquitos nets, a party tennis court, a mowed meadow patch turned into a golf rink, and a phonograph that plays brass-band music until midnight. The man asks about summer board, and Cantessel quips that cows, gardens, and chickens became obsolete several seasons ago.
A father asks his son Benny which coin he donated at church. Benny explains he chose a penny because the preacher extolled cheerful giving, saying a penny could be cheerfully given more than a shilling. The ad then switches to a Kodol digest aid promotion claiming strong relief and a money back guarantee sold by E. I. Whitehead Co.
Poem reflects on life as a tapestry crafted by a Master-weaver. It speaks of joyful and burdensome threads woven into patterns of beauty and meaning, with faith guiding the loom. The speaker praises resilience and hope amid life’s trials, invoking steady handiwork and moral balance.
The Durham Herald reports a man who married his mother-in-law and faces chaos as two sets of children share a father. Complications erupt over half-brothers and half-sisters, uncles and aunts, step relationships, and grandchildren stepping in as stepparents. The commentary notes endless possible relations and human limits.
A reflection from Sunday School Times arguing that true honor comes from unselfish living. It asserts that seeking personal glory harms prospects, while genuine selflessness earns lasting respect and even immortality when one forgets personal honors.
In a Baltimore American item a consumer extols Bucklen Arnica Salve as the greatest healer after a family’s burns cuts boils and corns are treated. The ad noting it is sold by BE T Whitehead Co cites Mamie’s piles and a dying woman Jorkins who allegedly disputed a will.
Benton of Fort Edward New York climbed Bald Mountain to reach a neighbor with asthma and used Dr King s New Discovery. The medicine allegedly cured the neighbor and later his son's wife of a serious lung ailment. It is touted as the best throat and lung cure with claims against coughs colds hemorrhage and hay fever. Available 50 cents to 1.00 with free trial bottles guaranteed by F E Whitehead Co.
A vintage ad warns about silent kidney illness and urges use of Doan's Kidney Pills. It cites symptoms like frequent painful urination, backache, and dull aches, with a testimonial from Miss Lucy Hancock praising relief after taking Doan's. Distributed by Poster Milburn Co. Buffalo as sole U.S. agents.
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