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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1892
Page
2
A 1892 Durham Recorder column notes Cleveland as the next Democratic presidential candidate. The piece quotes various opinions on politics in Washington and Illinois, remarks on liquor politics, and references Gov. Scales’s death and a medical cure claiming New Discovery for Consumption with a local testimonial from Shelby, North Carolina.
A Fayetteville Observer correspondent urges farmers to focus on prevention against hog cholera. He recalls traditional measures such as burning woodland to destroy germs and using carbolic acid, turpentine in feed, and sanitation of sleeping areas, claiming others’ losses were greater. He cites Dr. N. M. Johnson’s cattle powders as a purported cure and notes an advertisement elsewhere in the paper.
The text cites a remedy marketed as a health tonic for kidneys and liver named Bowla, priced at one dollar per bottle and sold by leading druggists. It notes prior challenges by the Progressive Farmer to expose fertilizer adulteration and criticizes the State Chemist for silence awaiting a February bulletin.
An essay asserts love as a universal burden and blessing. It describes love as patient provocation proof and vital for divine truth on earth, noting that genuine love bears hardship without boasting or revealing its scars.
By order of the Superior Court of Durham County a tract of about 6 acres belonging to the estate of J. H. Briggs deceased will be sold at the court house door on Monday March 28 1892 at noon to the highest bidder. The land joins F F Markham and other Briggs lands on the waters of Eledey and was bought to make assets. Terms are one third cash one third in six months and one third in twelve months with title retained and deferred payments drawing 8 percent interest. W J Wyatt Adm r and Commissioner.
The article laments boys and young men misbehaving at public events. It argues public gatherings, from church to entertainments, expose youths to display manners or cause disturbances. Durham is noted as afflicted by such troublemakers who are not always excluded.
A poetic line proclaims love as solid oak, unshaken by anger or danger, and unmarked by grain or veneer, asserting unwavering strength and resilience. It compares true love to enduring timber, immune to buzz saws of fear.
A long list of famous U S figures and others attest to cures from Krvo's Royal Germe r Gexserver. Testimonials include Gen. Jas Longstreet Major J Y Rankin Rev J R Hawthorne Rev Sam J Jones Col L Waves Hon J R Lyle Rev A St Vaughan J H Shawhan Henry W Grady and many more. The ad claims rapid relief from LAGRIPPE catarrh and rheumatism with two teaspoons in hot water hourly for six hours.
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