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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1903
Page
6
In a lakeside chapter a painter Trask sketches Miss Jones while Lucy Ann admires the art. The narrator contemplates love, Agnostic views, and Miss Jones’s beauty as Trask and Miss Witherspoon become entwined. A Swiss singer inspires a ballad later woven into the narrator’s Berlin copy.
Tourists can buy all year round tickets from Durham North Carolina via Southern Railway to Hot Springs Arkansas San Francisco California Los Angeles California Mexico City Mexico and return. Fares 44.05 to Hot Springs and 135.00 to California, 34 to Mexico City with final limits nine or ninety days from sale and nine months respectively. Tickets available daily. contact any Southern Railway ticket agent or G Dusenbery Durham NC.
The Southern Railway announces winter tourist rates effective Oct 15 for travel from Durham to multiple destinations. Tickets on sale daily until April 30 with final limit May 31, 1904, listing cities and corresponding fares such as Austin 62.89, Bartow 39.55, Cedar Keys 35.65, Deland 34.15, Gainesville 31.70, Havana 80.55, Tampa 40.05, Jacksonville 27.45, Miami 49.46, St. Augustine 29.96, San Antonio 68.45, and others.
Help wanted advertisement seeking a trustworthy man or woman to run a business in the county and nearby area. Offers $20 cash salary plus expenses paid weekly from headquarters, with expense money advanced. Position described as permanent. Address Manager 605 Monon Bldg Chicago.
Wanted faithful person to travel and supervise force of salespeople and make collections for manufacturing house. Straight salary twenty dollars a week and expenses. Salary paid weekly and money advanced. Local territory. Business successful. Position it. Enclose self addressed envelope Superintendent 324 Dearborn Chicago.
Advertisement proclaims The Daily Observer as the only daily paper in North Carolina or Virginia with AP dispatches and state capitals coverage. It also offers The Semi-Weekly Observer as a perfect family journal and invites sample copies and agent commissions.
Train 111 westbound at 3 30 a m from Durham to Greensboro then south and west with connections to Salisbury Charlotte Columbia Savannah Charleston Jacksonville Atlanta and New Orleans. Eastbound No 112 to Raleigh Selma and Goldsboro with Pullman sleeper. Connections at Selma for Wilson Fayetteville and Florence. Dining cars on Nos 36 and 30. Through schedules and connections to Norfolk Jeffries and Richmond. Officials names listed.
P J O Dea Postmaster and D C Manaus Assistant Postmaster report daily opening and closing times for the U S mails. The note lists a 3 15 p m closing and details of mail handling at the Washington dispatch point.
Durham officials and city posts include mayor J. F. Freeland and aldermen from four wards. Other offices named are city clerk George W. Woodward, tax collector J. R. Patton, city attorney Howard A. Foushee, police chief J. A. Woodall, and city engineer W. T. Blackwell Jr.
The record lists officers including President Robert W. Winston First Vice-President W A Slater Second Vice-President J D O Pridgen Third Vice-President J Harper Erwin Secretary Jnc C Troy Assistant Secretary J W Burroughs and Treasurer W L Wall.
A list of churches missions temples and hospitals including Trinity and First Presbyterian First Baptist Second Baptist North and West Durham missions West Durham Church Episco pal and Episcopal Mission Gospel Tabernacle Hebrew Synagogue Catholic Hall Primitive Baptist Watts Hospital superintendent Miss Pinyon and Lincoln Hospital colored John Merrick on Pearl Mill area near Durham city streets and railway offices.
Public library records show hours for Mrs Winton Rogers with daily access except Sunday. Open 10 to 12:90 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. with evening hours 7:20 to 10 p.m. Public notice lists access times and exceptions.
A roster lists administrators for local schools including Trinity College and Trinity Park High School. Names include J. F. Bivins, L. R. Walden, J. A. Matheson, W. D. Carmichael, W. J. Brogden, E. J. Green, J. H. Highsmith, J. B. Pegram, W. G. Pearson, and D. J. Green among others.
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