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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1893
Page
3
The Durham Recorder notes the Hotel Claiborn will be ready for occupancy soon and comments on local business confidence as merchants promote low prices and steady supply. It highlights M Gladstein Co and Herndon Bagwell advertising, praising reliability and value in shoes clothing molasses and farm supplies.
A columnist denounces Smoky Hollow as a hellish den and calls on citizens to purge disreputable establishments. Wayland Rollins, a city official, is blamed for a fatal confrontation with three brothers. The piece urges property owners to refuse rentals to such parties and prompts broader moral reform. It also notes postal rules and various brief variances in public notices.
A town meeting and a public appeal passed the bill favoring high license and endorsed Representative Erwin's approach. The newspaper will publish only named authors hereafter. A San Francisco burglary involved a mirror incident and police summons. Cleve land inauguration set for the second time with a leading national figure returning to the presidency on the fourth of March.
The Durham Sum extols the upcoming Hotel Claiborn as a state and national talking point. It lauds J S Carry for funding and fitting the grand establishment, claiming it will elevate Durham into the front ranks of fine hotels and shift regional standing.
A freight train wreck occurred between three and four this morning in a deep cut near Hillsboro when four cars derailed and were crushed into kindling. Investigators suspect a defective rail on the R and D Road caused the incident. the delayed Raleigh and New York trains carried many restless passengers as they shuffled around the wreck.
A garbled diary-like fragment discusses an “awful” habit of overusing the word in a child and references a broader wartime tone about eloping fever and tree planting. It mentions a Gale leaeuis in ye RVOly and stray notes on mutton theft and punishment.
A county woman with seven years of illness from a consuming disease finds relief after three months of coughing and sleeplessness. After using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption she sleeps through the night and reports a miraculous improvement. The ad invites readers to obtain a free bottle from W. C. Humrick & Co. of Shell by N.C via caknalls & Sons.
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