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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1887
Page
5
Local notices describe deadlines for ad submissions and upcoming events. Citizens discuss new enterprises in Durham, including factories, rail projects, and the Farmers Alliance movement gaining momentum amid market shifts and rail pricing concerns.
The Durham tobacco market sold 250000 pounds or more last week at an average of 12 50 per hundred. Farmers express jubilation over prices and plan to plant more carefully, with better curing. The included table marks tobacco as a major crop with Perry leading in Christmas.
A roster of arrivals includes John OC and Maj C H Scott in Raleigh, H A London in Pittsboro, Geo Hackney and J A Karken, D N R B, W Rencher in North Carolina, W A Parker in Gin, C VanGunder in Pin, J F Slaughter in Va, W B Tomes alias Louis in Bulton, and others like W Thom Iy in Siler City, Goat X YEL Cobb in Atlanta, H Rucker in NY.
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