09 Sep 1909
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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1909
Page
1
News notes report Senator Perkins of California at age seventy. The compilation covers agricultural outputs, local crime fines, educational appointments, a Durham liquor case, a Wilmington charter, a New York divorce, railroad news, and upcoming stamp issues. Also included are remarks on Taft’s Wilmington visit, extended prohibition measures, and various local civic updates from North Carolina and surrounding areas.
Advice from Progressive Farmer on curing cowpeas by waiting for yellow pods. Practical steps include morning mowing, tedding to toss wilting, windrows by afternoon, turning next morning, crowning in the afternoon, stacking carefully with tops covered and rails to keep off moisture. Even heated stacks can cure well.
A World’s Work excerpt recalls long balloon voyages from St Louis to the Atlantic coast that supposedly cured rheumatism and lung disease. The narrator describes dramatic blood changes, hunger, and rescue of a sick friend who later prospered after air journeys.
Senator Gore relays a Pleasant Hill Missouri tale about a mother hen whose brood splits after a rooster feast. The five roosters are eaten by preachers at Chickenville while the pullets remain, prompting the hen to note her brood entered the ministry. A humorous moral follows. DeWitt’s Liver Pills and Witch Hazel Salve ads close the piece.
The North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey teams with the U S Forest Service to survey wood using industries statewide. About four hundred firms will receive inquiry cards asking wood type use, amounts, forms, delivery costs, production location, and markets to create a comprehensive market guide and promote timber conservation.
A Washington News editorial argues newspapers must balance public duty with financial viability. It notes editors depend on business support to sustain coverage and warns readers against lukewarm neutrality. It emphasizes readers’ loyalty ties to content and patronage.
The poem extols pain as a path to grace and divine strength, while Goldsboro Argus reports pellagra spreading from moldy corn. It notes symptoms, suspected link to moldy grain, contagion risk, and cautions against wet or spoiled corn, urging regulation.
A Lexington Dispatch excerpt depicts two men contrasted by behavior. A town tough condemns a smoker and gambler, while a religious elder lies to the tax assessor. The speaker argues which man should admonish the other, ending the scene with a wry crowd dispersal.
A Louisville Courier Journal opinion notes the timing of marriage should match a woman's finances and lifestyle spending. It argues a match should occur when the net income equals expenses needed to maintain status and impress peers, reflecting social pressure and economic logic of the era.
The Philadelphia Record weighs the placement of a Robert E. Lee statue in Statuary Hall, noting Virginia sent two figures Washington and Lee, and reflecting on Lee’s loyalty to Virginia, views of the Constitution, and Virginia’s lasting honor to Lee.
A doctor named Clifford faces door denial before services in Birmingham. He insists on entry claiming pulpit space, while a policeman questions his seatholder status. The exchange ends with the quip that the speaker has already admitted two Clifords. The piece includes a second cartoonish exchange about a balloon death rumor exaggerated.
A Fort Bird New York man recounts climbing Bald Mountain to help a neighbor with asthma using Dr King’s New Discovery. The medicine allegedly cured the neighbor and later his son’s wife with severe lung troubles. Claims include cures for coughs colds hay fever grip and whooping cough with bottles priced 30 cents and one dollar and a free trial bottle under a guarantee by EB T Whitehead Co.
Nature’s warning about kidney symptoms leads Miss Lacey Hancock of Church Street tamel Neck North Carolina to praise Doan’s Kidney Pills. She reports relief from back aches and troublesome kidney secretions after using the product, with price listed as 50 cents. Milburn Co., Buffalo New York, is named as sole US agents.
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