24 Dec 1896
Page 1
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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1896
Page
1
A collage of 19th century items including Cuban insurgent leader Antonio Maceo’s legacy, Illinois corn yields and historical tax trivia, political debates on university funding, holiday congress posture, and editorials on Methodism and education. Names, places, and dates mingle with brief items on crime, weather, and culture.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Christmas by name with references to weather and holiday shopping. The text includes stray phrases about bills and a husband, but no coherent events or clear entities beyond Cleveland context and December 25. The passage reads as garbled notes rather than a full report.
Ellis, Stone & Company advertise a vast handkerchief assortment for the holidays. They claim the largest stock in the city across silk, linen and cotton in varied price ranges from 5 cents to 2 50. Window displays, ready for gift buyers, with emphasis on practicality and beauty.
An advertisement extols domestic patterns as the best machine of value and efficiency. It argues that apparent cheapness hides real savings and touts high quality at fair prices. It invites agents to sell Domestic and Imperial Paper Patterns and to request a catalogue.
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