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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1906
Page
2
Entry describes second class matter at Durham North Carolina post office dated August 8 1903 under the March 3 1879 act. Includes subscription rates and advertising rates with partial legibility and fragmented wording.
An 1906 Durham column reports on court activity including whiskey cases and looming hangings, approves Governor’s refusal to pardon Free man Jones, and praises A D Markham as chairman. It critiques appointive politics and notes a vacancy caused by the Bowllng resignations and statewide crime implications.
Fragmented text discusses nosebleeds and iodine like phrases, mentions polling, tangential names, and disjointed actions. The garbled passage references hands, fingers, voting, and a sense of confusion around a scene or event.
A described Aboriginal hunting method finds men cutting notches in hollow trees to climb and harvest opossums and other animals. The climb reaches up to 250 feet above water as the party awaits game, while a separate tale describes a city girl’s preference for hills over cemeteries.
Fragmented notes describe Manhattan geography with references to the Battery Grand Circle Central Park Mount Morris Park and water level clues. The text mentions feet and distances, but lacks coherent events or clear action.
A rich suitor offers ten dollars a week while a woman insists she is unworthy of a millionaire. She muses that even a poor man earning around twenty thousand dollars a year might win her, revealing pride and restraint in the face of wealth.
Durham agent J. B. Grattan lists departures and connections from Durham North Carolina including westbound Florida Express to Charlotte Columbia Savannah Jacksonville and the Southwestern Limited to Atlanta Birmingham Memphis Montgomery Mobile and southbound services to Goldsboro Norfolk Wilmington and New Bern with key connections at Selma Keysville Richmond Ox ford and Greensboro.
The Westbound schedule lists the St. Louis Express Pullman sleeper Roanoke to Columbus via Bluefield Cincinnati and other points with Roanoke to Knoxville service. Additional Roanoke to Radford Bristol Bluefield Norton Welch and Roanoke connections shown. Eastbound leaves Lynchburg at 3 35 p m daily for Farmville Richmond Petersburg and Norfolk with Parlor Car service.
Schedule lists Durham departures for Oxford and Henderson with connections to North and South. No. 238 runs daily except Sunday at 10 30 am. No. 222 runs daily except Sunday at 6 00 pm as a mixed train. Arrivals: No. 241 at 4 05 pm from Henderson and Oxford. No. 221 at 9 00 am from Henderson as a mixed train. Contact ticket agent or S H Reams for details.
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