23 Jan 1889
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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1889
Page
1
A romantic tribute from Orange Virginia to a distant beloved, praising her beauty and grace as the speaker pledges allegiance and fate to her keeping in a literary verse from the observer in Marshalltown Iowa. The piece sits beside a comic poem about a delinquent subscriber, describing a humorous doorstep encounter and a demand for payment.
A collage of historical notes includes Judge Thurman’s tally fee of 81000, Mrs. Harrison’s disputed statements, and fashion opinions on low necklines. It cites Fuller’s rise to chancellor, McDonald’s insanity, potential Public Printer Helm, and Disraeli’s bishopric counsel. Also mentions Mildred Lee gifting engravings to a Lexington Confederate, Gladstone’s writings on Christianity, and health claims about smoking versus longevity.
The article surveys suffrage dates and practices across regions and nations. It notes Ontario and Wyoming among early adopters, Texas and Kansas cases, and mentions Britain Ireland Sweden Russia Austria Hungary Italy Finland British Burma Madras Bombay and various colonies. It highlights women voting rights in municipal and parliamentary contexts and cites vast areas where suffrage exists or is expanding.
The Lynchburg and Durham bought a Ramsay Street lot for a depot at 2 200 dollars, far cheaper than prior sales that reached 10 000. President Otley has contracted 22 000 ties for the ten mile section graded beyond Rutbury, at twenty nine cents each, with trains expected in sixty days.
The Raleigh News Observer reports a Democratic legislative caucus selecting a U S Senator nominee. Declared in order, nominees included H W Stubbs for Ransom and S B Alexander for Alexander, with Ballots showing Ransom leading 60 69 votes. After speeches by Waldell Jarvis Clingman and others the caucus adjourned to further ballots. Cigars remark closes the piece noting Manilla Philippines largest factories.
United States Deputy Marshal Geo W. Means and a five man posse hunted moonshiners near Ben's Knob in the South Mountains. About 25 moonshiners fired on the group, exchanging over 100 shots. W. B. Wray was wounded in the neck. one unidentified prisoner was hurt and later recovered. The party destroyed two distilleries and ten thousand gallons of beer, capturing three men. Means's party returned after the ambush, with their horses spooked and Means spraining his shoulder. The moonshiners carried the wounded prisoner away.
A synthesis of editorials from the Baltimore American, Washington Star, New York World, St. Louis Globe Democrat, Boston Post, and Washington Journal discussing economic policy trade, the Panama canal project, Civil War era party dynamics, cabinet appointments, and electoral reforms. Text reflects early 20th century press debates on governance and reform.
A Charlotte Observer poem extols advertising, urging persistence and bold promotion as the path to success in life and business. The verse echoes the refrain that advertising pays and society’s struggle in the broad field of battle for prominence.
A collage of light humor from Puck Liftings Time and Siftings humor pages. Jokes include marital quips about divorce plans, ear muff banter, nosy neighbors, a meerschaum pipe mix up, and a dentist bill aside. Also includes family trials and a pin paper giveaway gag from Philadelphia Record.
In 1883 Virginia began peanut flour manufacture producing a tasty biscuit while Georgia had long made pastes from pounded peanuts. Peanuts are used in chocolate and as a nutritious staple for sustenance and beverages. The crop yields fodder and hog feed, with supply growing faster than demand. U S peanut usage reaches about 3,000,000 bushels.
The Supreme Court quashed the writ of prohibition against Judge Guthrie. This removes the election dispute from the courts and clears the way for the Secretary of State to certify Kanawha County returns, yielding Goff a decisive 106 vote majority.
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