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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1887
Page
4
Will C Thaxton is named as the authorized agent to receipt for advertisements and subscriptions to the Recorder. Advertisements intended for the next day’s paper must be brought in the evening before to ensure insertion.
Local notices praise the tireless efforts of Durham districts in church extension and praise new leaders at Baptist and Sunday school. Farmers report good tobacco prices and a prominent restaurant owner offers affordable oysters. New physicians and Rev Dr C F James arriving, plus a call for unity among Durham stockholders over the savings bank issue.
A telegraphic report from Tallahassee announces the marriage of Miss Maggie F Bailey, niece of Dr and Mrs Hawkins, to Major John W Graham of Hillsboro. The ceremony at the Hawkins residence was conducted by Rev J J Scott with Benehan Cameron as best man. The couple plans a Florida tour after luncheon.
Summerfield advertises a large stock of boots shoes hats caps ready made clothing calicoes worsteds jewelry and trunks. He promises five percent lower prices than any rival and notes a growing trade with farm families widely supplied. His clerks are polite and Summerfield remains a trusted local salesman at Summerfield.
The Durham Fertilizer Company is declared a corporate body with 600 shares at 100 each, capital 60,000, to manufacture guanos and fertilizers and to buy sell property, with thirty year duration and powers to issue stock, establish agencies, and conduct extensive business. Prominent Durham figures Carr Parrish Morehead Stokes Morgan Morgan lead the venture as local industry expands amid rising tobacco and cotton trade.
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