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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1892
Page
4
Willieawtucker of Sussex county Virginia dies Wednesday after excessive eating. The prior day he consumed one gallon venison hash half a gallon coffee and crackers mixed with half gallon water and crackers a pound of dry sugar and a large amount of pork and bread. The notice also touts ads for cheap goods and veterinary lotions sold in Durham North Carolina.
The New York Court of Appeals awarded Henry W. Kinkaid, an infant, $4,000 damages for an unskillful arm fracture treatment. Suit against Dr. J. W. Sheldon and Dr. Doyle questioned the wound management and palm-side splint use as experts testified on both sides. The case centered on jury questions and facts. The piece also opposes Civil Service, arguing it harms business and administration, using church and politics analogies to claim it is a sham and deceptions.
The English clergy initially opposed the fork as impious while a report notes a signal vase through the Atlantic cable covering 2,700 miles in 31-100 of a second, illustrating early communications tests and contested tech perceptions.
A dense OCR of railway timetables lists departures and arrivals across routes from West Point to Richmond and Raleigh, detailing trains, stations, and connections. It enumerates schedules for Durham, Lynchburg, Winston Salem, and Norfolk lines with notes on Pullman services, sleepers, and daily/weekly runs including special through connections and serving towns like Danville, Portsmouth, and Raleigh.
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