Local Durham Notes Cover Advertisers and People
The column lists diverse local items from a busy Durham scene including shoe ads, bank duties, county residents visiting Fayetteville and Richmond, health reports, a tobacco sale at Old Reams Warehouse, and a record January tobacco total at Banner warehouse. It notes deaths, new town leadership, and forthcoming events, with mentions of Wetmore shoes and the Lynchburg Durham railroad progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Guthrie
Fayetteville
Wetmore
Owen Amey
Elsey Strudwich
Col
E. J. Parrish
Richmond
Geo. A. Adjerton
Red Cross Street
Reams Warehouse
Durham
Capt
J. 8. Lockhart
Banner Warehouse
Inhospitable Landowners Spark Winter Hunting Clash
A Kinston Prep Press note argues it is short-sighted for landowners to bar winter hunters from their lands, urging better welcome for people who come to spend the season and their money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kinston Prep Press
Presbyterians to discuss Greensboro Orphans Home founders
The synod of North Carolina appoints commissioners to arrange the founding of an Orphans Home and calls a meeting February 21 at 10 o'clock in the First Presbyterian church of Greensboro. A Farmers' Legislature proposal to tax dogs to protect sheep was killed with little debate. The writer asks allies to support the sheep and asks who will defend them against reckless dogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Synod of
North Carolina
First Presbyterian Church of
Greensboro
Northern Mills Moving South to Reidsville
Businessmen of Reidsville North Carolina form a Cotton Factory Company and buy M Gambrill’s Wilmington Delaware mill to relocate to Reidsville Mr Gambrill will become a stockholder and select the site with buildings to be erected once chosen
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Mills
Salisbury Watchman
Reidsville
N. C
M. Gambrill
Wilmington
Del
Gambrill
In A Nutshel Notions From The New York Sun
A quirky collection of aphorisms and quips about marriage, cigars, rings, migration to Canada, drunken husbands, Newtons fame, and empty promises of wealth tied to an apple. The piece parodies social habits and human vanity through brief witticisms.
Mortgages Burden States Highlighted by North Carolina Writer
D P Meachan argues in the State Chronicle that Kansas carries 235 million dollars in mortgages on 275.5 million assessed value, Illinois shows 1 billion in mortgages on 797 million value, and North Carolina lags with 3.94 per capita money circulation while taxes exceed per person list values. He contends the Democratic Legislature risks burdening citizens further.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. P. Meachan
State Chronicle
Kansas
Ilionis
North Carolina
Illinois
D. P. Meacnay
New Grocery Store Opens in Mangum Street Building
New merchant announces fresh groceries in stock at the Markham building Mangum street offering bottom prices and ready service to shoppers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Markham
Mangum Street
Notice of Executor for EI Strudwick Estate
Qualified as Executor C. B. Amey invites all persons with claims against the EI Strudwick estate to present them and those indebted to the estate to pay promptly. Notice dated January 3, 1889.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EI Strudwick
Sala Cotete
C. B. Amey
Liver and Kidney Remedy Promise of Universal Cure
An advertisement touts a liver medicine described as the most perfect remedy for regulating bowels purifying blood cleansing the system and curing consumption biliousness dyspepsia fever chills bad breath sour stomach back pains and kidney troubles. It claims to aid female irregularities relieve the change of life and requires no diet changes while selling at 50 cents a bottle from Pemberton Medicine Co Atlanta Ga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
All Druggista
Pemberton Medicine Co
Atlanta Ga
Coca Wine Promises Health Claims From Letters
Thomas McAfer of Chattanooga reports his wife recovered from years of dyspepsia hysteria constipation sick headache insomnia and neuralgia after using Coca Wine. Dr C A Kyles of Atlanta cites relief from mental strain nervous headache and insomnia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas McAfer
Chattanooga
Tenn
C. A. Ktyles
Atlanta
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chas. Watkins
Richmond, Va
R. I. Rogers
Phnton
W. T. Blackwall
E. A. Oldman
Charleston
F. P. Burch
Fidelity Bank
J. B. Gunter
Mebane
M. F. Kirkman
Durham Sash, Door & Blind Manufacturing Supply Company
Walter Rae
Turlington
Raleigh
France
R. H. Wright
Tat
The
Daily Journal
New Berne
Wetmore & Co
P. W. Naughan
Elys & Bursts
Carr
City of
B. N. Duke
Chapel Hill Street
H. Steimmetz
Stokes Hall
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
J. T. French
News & Observer
Railroad Commission
N. M. Johnson & Co
E. R. Smith
Board of Town Commissioners
Town &E
Brighton
Mich
Wild Jim
Mangum
Lynchburg
Lynchburg & Durham
Col. Richardson
Mississippi
Leasure
Frank L. Faller
T. C. Fuller
Fuller
Col. A.N. Folk
Lenoir
W. W. Fuller
News-Observer
the Recorder
Chatham
A. L. FoHett
Turkey Buntin
Oole
Mily
State Board of Health
Thos. F. Wood
Farmers Alliance Warehouse
Presbyterian Orphans’ Home
Isherry Watchman
Atham
New York Sun
Adam
Canada
Isaac Newton
Pemberton
N.M. Johnson & Co
Vaughan
Durham, N.C
Buist’s
Ely
PW. Vaughan
Stelment
Durham Marble Works
Whitaker & Hulin
Main Street
N.C
Cotto
Chapel Hill
Morrisville
John L. Markham
J. F. Slaughter
Dorham
Nac
Music House
North State Cluste Co
J. L. Stone
Nes
Steinway
Emerson
Tfol
Millex
New England
Bridgeport
Raleigh, N. C
Anaga
Bank of Durham
Jan. Bely
Messrs. Muse & Shaw
Court House
Walton M. Bisnex
N, C
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