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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1895
Page
3
The Durham Recorder entry reflects a community letter page with editorials and personal news. It notes subscriptions, political sentiment, and local social updates from Orange and Raleigh areas, including names like Jas. Bley, Col. B. Cameron, Miss Pattie Umstead, and Sir observations on New Year hopes. It contains poems and short notices about visits and social events.
Caroline, dowager duchess of Montrose, died at eighty after a life in English racing noted for managing vast stables, fierce language, and fashion defying propriety. Her career centered on horses run under Mr Manton with no divorces among her marriages.
Pragvinne Pee 31 Mr Myrtle Furrentine accompany Miss Mamie Crews from Danville Virginia Miss May William of Monitta and Miss Sandie Crews of Chatham arrive for Christmas and are praised as charming young ladies entering society Myrtle Hester returns home on North Side after a pleasant visit to Lola Southerland An infant child of Mr and Mrs Lillie Southerland has been celebrated
An advertisement extols long standing customer trust in Consumer King's New Life Pills Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters. It claims universal satisfaction with these remedies and offers refunds if results are unsatisfactory. Authored by R Blackwall.
Old Pat Nolan the celebrated steeplejace jockey recalls fortunes from racing days. A countryman jokes about paying debts while Nolan hints at the time he built a house. Jack Batchelor once robbed and raced Princess to recover money. Uncle Bob, a colored retainer at Belle Meade, escorts presidents and Mrs. Cleveland past Iroquois, proving his pride in the stable.
An observer notes a well-dressed woman stopping at a fruit stand and haggling over quinces. The stand owner, claiming ten years’ experience, says the woman was unlikely to buy and judged buyers by demeanor. Italian laborers priced the fruit and left quickly, muttering in their language.
A fragment recounts a remote farmer who, after a two year road build with immigrant labor, rises to own a Pisestaquis farm, rides in a carriage, and sends his children to good schools. It notes early food chemistry prospects and the idea that demand spurs invention in concentrated food tablets and tea or coffee production.
A nostalgic verse traces care through generations as Castoria is invoked from infancy to motherhood. The speaker recalls childhood ailments and maternal routines, noting Castoria’s recurring role in caregiving across stages of life.
We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The firm Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio and West Truxa, Calding Kinnan & Marvin Toledo endorse F J Cheney as honorable and financially able. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts on the blood and mucous surfaces. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free.
A brakeman at Niantic observes a flying passenger express pass by in a whirlwind of dust and steam. A white orb lands, fractures, then unfolds into a man carrying a gripsack and torn bundle, wearing a white duster and derby, who binds with local railroad workers before resuming travel toward New York. A playful anecdote ends with a stranger hailed as a traveling salesman and the brakeman assisting as the scene unfolds.
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