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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1891
Page
5
A period piece mentions a $100000 Baptist academy at Newport News and various local snippets. It notes Alliance support, census antics, Orient Insurance leadership under Mr W H McCabe, kind acts toward a tramp, remarks on ministers, a new North Carolina publishing venture, and a Richmond Baptist baptism scene with Dr Cooper.
In Milton area two weeks ago a packing house fire burned suspectedly set by an incendiary after a prior tobacco theft. J N L G Phelps and Tuck Hughes were arrested after ten days of investigation and bound over to court. Earp confessed to theft and arson while Hughes admitted lighting the fire. all await November court in Yanceyville.
In Washington last night the American Tract Society held its annual meeting at First Church. Bishop Galloway spoke and highlighted the society's endowment push. Over fifty years of work are summarized: 15,560,245 volumes circulated, 466,750 public meetings, 15,630,020 families visited, and tens of thousands aided with religious reading materials.
A local retailer slashes price on Jones and Lyon men’s genuine Newark Beach shoes. Regularly 6 50, the entire lot sells for 4 75 to attract buyers.
Rev R A Ricks of the Christian Church collapsed from paralysis while beginning his sermon in Burlington and died soon after. He left a wife and two small children. The remains were taken to Ridgeway for interment, passing through Durham en route. A Kansas woman named Layne Shace reportedly broke her bank open today after a year and a half.
The record enumerates assets including real estate and ground rents, loans on bonds and mortgages, securities owned, cash in offices and banks, and other assets. Liabilities show losses unpaid, reserve, and other claims with a final total of $3454 6,587.71 2,394.22 2394.22.
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