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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1917
Page
5
The Spirit of the Age reports on Civil War actions around Fredericksburg and Culpeper. It notes Hooker’s retreat, Yankee movements at Deep Run and Hamilton's Crossing, Lee's maneuvers, and a Confederate report from Culpeper with dispatches and captured prisoners.
Confederates report a major engagement at Brandy Station with ten thousand enemy cavalry crossing the Rappahannock and driving in pickets. three or four hundred prisoners taken, fierce hand to hand fighting, and a Confederate withdrawal later described as driven from the field. The paper also notes a Confederate militia call of seven thousand men and includes a fiercely biased account condemning Union atrocities at Core Creek, depicting Yankee burning of churches and plundering households.
An old classifieds notice offers high cash prices for scrap iron old house rags magazines auto tires rubber shoes and scrap metals. It mentions Atlanta Barber College at 10 E Mitchell St and H Gordon & Sons at 206 208 E Commerce St with yards at Tomlinson and Russell Streets and C Y R R.
A shop promotes a $4.98 pneumatic carpet sweeper as a labor saver that cleans better than brooms, preserves carpets, and pays for itself in six months. The offer runs for ten days with the Review office handling orders. Contact H. Gordon & Sons at 206-208 E Commerce St with yards on Tomlinson and Russell Streets, C and Y Ry area.
High Point resident B C Poole of 1007 E Green St reports kidney problems with irregular secretions and back weakness. He credits Dean’s Kidney Pills with complete cure, noting improved rest and energy. Ad promotes 60 cents at all dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
This ad claims stomach trouble weakens energy and suggests Mayr's Wonderful Remedy as a quick cure for stomach liver and intestinal issues. It asserts millions have been restored and invites purchases from Hart Drug Co.
Notice to creditors as administrator of J Wesley Pitts estate Guilford county North Carolina before Clerk Mason W Gant. Claims must be filed by September 1 1918 or be barred. Debts should be settled promptly. D L Kandy administrator. W P Ragan attorney.
By decree of the Guilford Superior Court in Special Proceedings D J Hendricks administrator with will annexed of W Riley Cruthis against Paul Cruthis et al the Dean land in Jamestown township will be sold for cash at public auction at the courthouse door Greensboro on Monday September 24 1917 at 12 o'clock M The 86 acre parcel adjoins P H Hodson Lee Modlin M E Dean and others with metes and bounds described The sale date is August 23 1917 Dr Hendricks commissioner W P Ragan attorney
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