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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1895
Page
3
The Durham Recorder relic recounts local chatter on finance and circulation, ad pages from J L Coles Co, and regional tidings. It mentions H Hillsboro and Durham ties, a death in the community, roads, cotton economics, and a groundhog anecdote with Col R E Cure commenting on winter.
The Durham town board and police department adopted resolutions honoring Mayor Isaac Newton Link who died. They praised his impartial justice, loyalty, and service, extended sympathy to his widow and daughter, and ordered copies published and records made.
Dr L T Smith longtime local pharmacist died at his Main Street residence at 1609 his family informed but absent at the time of death. He came from Granville County twenty years ago leaving a wife and three sons as survivors. Funeral arrangements to be held from his residence with burial at the city cemetery. Also notice of Professor R B Holloway death in Poughkeepsie New York and a near fight in the United States Senate on Tuesday.
The page presents an advertisement for Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a $100 guarantee and testimonials, then shifts to a discussion on hereditary traits and the limits of predicting a child’s future intellect, citing authors and historical figures before noting a Reichstag crisis compromise to empower the president and eject dissenting deputies.
Farmer Mebane Browning sold tobacco then drank heavily and was robbed of 40 by three disreputable women named Minerva Morehead Lil Peoples and Francis Rookram in the rear of the Duke building. Police detained the trio and awaited mayoral hearing after failing to recover the money.
The Baltimore News cites Secretary Carlisle's 1895 revenue estimate showing a surplus of about 22 million dollars and argues the treasury now speaks to business needs rather than politics. It defends tariff realism, contrasts with Senator Gorman, and urges citizens to bolster enterprise and credit despite political folly.
The advertisement hypes Electric Bitters as a pure medicine curing liver and kidney diseases, purifying blood, removing pimples and boils, and driving malaria from the system. It guarantees full satisfaction with a money-back offer and lists price at 50 cents and 1 dollar per bottle from R. Blacknall & Son.
An indiler style arnica salve ad promises cures for a range of ailments and offers 25 cents a box from R Blackwall Son in Durham. Justice J Irvin Bitner sentences thirty days in jail in Hagerstown for disturbing religious meetings at Christian Union Mission and Rescue Mission Home. Polk Miller of Richmond declines a $1200 monthly lecture offer.
An advertising blurb from The Charlotte Observer presents The Daily Observer and The Weekly Observer offerings. It touts comprehensive world news, state and national capitols reports, and annual subscription prices.
Part of a shopper notice claims you pay three times as much for inferior fit and style, suggesting better value elsewhere.
Warren county fusionists nominate Major W. B. Fleming for the house of representatives to replace the late Mr. Williams. The election is set for Tuesday February 12.
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