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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1889
Page
2
The Weekly Recorder reports a New York strawberry price of 11 a quart and a Milledgeville fire destroying 30000 dollars of property. It notes 359 US business failures, political maneuvers, and various international and national updates with several named figures and places.
The Wilmington Messenger reports the death by self inflicted gunshots of W W Slocumb a longtime Goldsboro telegraph operator. After resigning due to ill health he sought relief for himself and family planning death to avoid the poorhouse. He obtained a pistol from a hardware store and was found dead behind the Arlington hotel with two bullets through his brain.
A man from Paw Creek seeks aid for a mad dog bite while a colored man also suffers bites. The dog bites a crowd in East Trade Street, Dallas Orr defeats the animal with a club and pistol shots end the threat as onlookers swarm the carcass.
Solhaas Wature and J L Taylor list daily train connections at Richmond for No 50 No 51 and No 53 with routes to Clarksville Oxfor Old Point Norfolk West Point and Baltimore No 52 from West Point connects daily at Richmond with No 50 for the South except Sundays with additional links to Richmond.
An advertisement promotes Syrup of Figs as a natural laxative and purgative that cleanses the system, relieves headaches colds fevers and indigestion, and treats habitual constipation and piles. It states production by the California Fig Syrup and lists K Blacknall Son as the seller with a March 28 date.
J O Ginsoy a trainman in Meridian Mississippi says after years of pain and ineffective medicines he tried B B B and rapidly improved declaring himself now healthy. He warns others suffering to try the treatment citing excellent qualities of B B B as the cause of his recovery.
Baltimore April 20 1887 claimant reports long struggle with ulcerated bowels and bleeding piles. After using four bottles of Botanic Blood Balm gains 150 pounds weight and improved health. Ends with offer for information on blood poisons and scrofula via mailed illustrated book from Bunoop Bara Co. AVita IA.
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