Tobacco Trade Crowds Warehouses as Farmers Eye Durham Market
Local notes report crowded warehouses and farmers choosing Durham as the selling hub. Sheriff Markham paid 15 405 905 dollars to the State Treasury. Reports mention variable tobacco plantings and a call for representation by farmers in Mine Crawford counties, plus local road improvements and Odd Fellows events. Obituaries note deaths in Braceville and Chatham while church affiliations and funeral details are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
F. D. Markham
Summerville Journal
Heavenly Congregation
Person County Courier
Wilmington Star
Mine
Crawford Counties
Congress
Fragmented 19th Century Gazette Clippings on Style and Local Lore
A jumble of vintage notes describes fashion hints from a St Louis magazine a garden scene and a grumbler’s critique. It mentions flowers, a bonnet request to be plain yet smart and a chapel setting for a spring hat. The piece also cites the Durham Sun and Lawrence American on neighborly manners and life spans. It ends with local news from Flat River involving tobacco farming bragging merchants fertilizer shipments and a request for local shipping improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the St. Lous
St. Louis
Harrygraph
Durham Sun
Flat River
Flat Riven
N. C
Taz
Pengey
O A. Mangam, Jr
Ham
W.F
A Future War Looms Between France and Germany
A wartime forecast describes immediate mobilization after war is declared. Germany would mass about 1.4 million troops on the frontier within a week, with 800,000 more forming a second line five days later, as both nations prepare for a conflict that could eclipse past wars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Germany
York Ladiger
Prussia
Versailles
Gaul
Teuton
Paterness
Jude
Ats Gael
Gaent
A Woman's Discovery of a Cures All in County
A woman in this county suffered seven years from a wasting disease with a three month coughing spell. She found relief after taking Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption and slept through the night. Mrs Luther Lutz credited a single bottle with a miraculous cure. Get a free trial by Jacknalls & Sons, Shellby NC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Luther Lutz
W. C. Hamrick & Co
Shell Bye N.C
Jacknalls & Sons
Syrup of Figs Praised as Superior Laxative
The California Fig Syrup Company extols the universal acceptance and approval of their pleasant liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs as the most excellent laxative known, highlighting its valued qualities and success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Fig Syrup Company
Nature’s own laxative and the Golden Specific ad
An 186 Race Street Cincinnati medical advert touts California Fig Syrup as a laxative for constipation and indigestion and markets Haines Golden Specific as a secret, permanent cure for drunkenness. It claims safe, undetectable administration in coffee or tea and urges readers to request circulars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Zee Francisco
Cal
Blackwall & Son
Golpen Epecific Co
Race Street
Cincinnati
Also Mentioned on This Page
Messrs
Warren
Cobb and Wortham
Durham Sash, Voor and Blind
Franklin Times
Times
H. A
Roxboro
University Station
W. T. Neal
Neal
Odd Fellows
Stokes Hall
N.G.H. M Smith
Bass
J. B. Whitaker, Jr
Odd Fellowship
Brotherhood of God and Man
Theda
E.R. Tatum
Braceville
Brace
L.N. Bruce
Bruceville
Tex
Herald
Chatham
Elm Grove
Able Holland
Christian Church
Martha's Chapel
Bell's
Lewis H. Harvard
Geo. P. Moore
Mary Suite
John A. Lawrence
Henderson Council
Baptist Church
Lawrence American
Teese
Sarah
NFLS
Omere
Ose Dren
Jones & Lyon
Morehead Banking’ Co
Glieng
Mbe
T. J. Lamb
Clothe
Roxie
Far- Durham
London
C. C. Thomas
Thomas
Salem Ave
Roanoke, VA
Wyatt Bros
Manufactured
Kennebeck
Beauty
Hebron and
Burbanks
Main Street
Durham, N. C
G W.davis
Potographer
Broad Street
Richmond
Virginia
Virgin
N. Ow
Caton Bank
W Mangum & Sow Wholesale
W. Mangum & Son
Mangum
the Modern Tobacco Barn Co., of
High Point
Farmers’ Clubs
Farmers’ Alliance
North and
South Carolina
Modern Barn Co
NathiXo W
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