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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1895
Page
2
The Durham Recorder notes its July 25 1895 issue and public stance as Durham Orange counties’ leading sheet. It invites reader letters and promises exclusive interviews with Colonel Pairbrother while addressing Governor bids and libel cases and local insurance fraud arrests.
The Durham Recorder announces new management led by Mrs. M. H. Fairbrother. She pledges honest journalism, no party alignment, and focus on Orange and Durham counties, inviting live local correspondence and ad support to keep the paper's historic standing.
A Carolina editorial reports that Judge Ewart imposed a severe sentence on the Asheville Citizen editor for alleged “honest criticism.” It condemns calls to duck him under a town pump, praises the editor as a skilled journalist, and questions northern bias and anti North Carolina sentiment in press and law.
Advertisements claim a “Mystic Cure” for rheumatism and neuralgia that allegedly cures in 1 to 3 days. It promises immediate disappearance of symptoms after the first dose and lists 75 cents per bottle sold by Heartt & Farrnth druggists in Durham. Additional notices advertise painting signs for 75 dollars monthly and boast testimonials about Drummond’s Lightning Remedy with claims of dramatic cures and large bottle offers by the Drum mond Medicine Co.
An old advertisement touts Dr King s New Discovery as a remedy for consumption coughs and colds. It promises dramatic effects in chest and lung ailments and offers a money back guarantee with trial bottle free at a local store for fifty cent and one dollar options.
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