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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1893
Page
2
The Durham Recorder urges delinquent subscribers to settle past dues. The paper notes extended time to respond, cites subscribers who sold crops, and invites written plans if visiting is inconvenient. Also includes miscellaneous notes on oats, Ingalls commentary, Iceland law, and a tribute to J S Carr as a candidate for Postmaster General.
In 1783 John London MacAdam, once a British agent in New York for captured vessels, returned to Scotland after peace. He studied road science, spent years and money improving highways, traveled 30 000 miles, and formed road trusts to advance macadam pavement despite farmer opposition.
R B Raney owner of the Yarboro House is connected to a steamer voyage linked to Odd Fellows lodge activities. The item references 1797 lodges and an associated event, with sparse readable details about the state or participants.
Fire Tuesday morning burned the Greensboro barn of J H West destroying a flying jenny. Four hobby horses were rescued. others burned. An elderly fox hunter Oliver McMath, 78, is noted for stamina on hounds in Chatham Record. Revenue men report three raids amid heavy snow: an illicit still near Lament Guilford and a large moonshine still near Moffits Mills Randolph County.
A Illinois Central vice president circular urges railroads to provide full reliable information to the press to avoid sensational reports. Creedmoor notes typhoid fever death of young merchant John T. Rogers, age 25 to 30, who left a wife and child.
Fragmentary notes report the Potomac freezing from shore to shore with errors in text. A November death toll or incident references a man from Novi Wis shot by his son and a stray gun estimate tied to the Treasury's casualty damages since 1862 appears garbled.
Capt. C. Anderson is appointed general superintendent of the Blackwell Durham Tobacco Company, succeeding Rev. A. Walker who will devote all his time to buying leaf tobacco for the firm.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad has quietly secured ferries on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers from Charleston to Cincinnati and control of most steamboat lines on the two rivers. It claims dominance of about 300 miles of river traffic and could pressure competing river roads.
A description extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant tasting laxative with gentle action and soothing effect. It claims great relief for constipated parents and asserts it as the best family remedy and essential for every household.
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