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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1895
Page
3
The Durham Recorder notes reader submissions on public concerns, local industry, and community life. It reports Trinity College’s senior class of 146, tobacco prominence, upcoming hog article, and various local anecdotes including residents’ travels and shop calls.
Revenue stamps totaling 16079.33 were sold last week while no building prospects exist. In University Station area this season rabbits and birds are plentiful and local men Vaughan Jones Kirkland Dickson head that way. Also advice on Ayers Cherry Pectoral and Ayer's Sarsaparilla as gifts and remedies.
Miss Nannie Turner of Durham visits Stagville this week and Miss Nannie Spencer of Nathalie arrives to visit sister Mrs Campbell. A party is planned at W P Durham's residence with local youths hoping for a pleasant evening as social events resume.
One hundred dollars reward offered for any case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. An ex customs officer reports arms shipment from Victoria to Hawaii tied to Wilcox and revolutionists, with opium smuggling and Chinese labor lore. Also notes potential extra congressional session and a Syracuse manslaughter case.
A hidden garden-like plot near Hyde Park Victoria gate holds about forty marble tombs for pets including Prince the Duke of Cambridge’s dog. The graves are cared for with trimmed box hedges and regular rows of stones bearing individual pet names.
A recent estimate of proposed wire shafts for steamships claims five sections totaling 100 feet in length and 15 inches diameter will use 25 000 No 7 steel wires each 15 feet long with 50 000 fastenings. Each wire and fastening bears 500 pounds without rupture, giving a total inherent strength of about 37 500 000 pounds, twenty five times a 6 000 horse power engine, per Young Man's Era.
M. M. Davis, surviving partner of the old dry goods firm Levy & Davis of Richmond Virginia, made an assignment Tuesday. Charles Straus is named as trustee. Liabilities amount to $40,000 while assets are not disclosed.
A brakeman at Niantic watches a passenger express pass and a white ball object, later revealed as a traveling salesman, fly from a car and land. He helps the stunned man to his feet, then aids his return to a slower westbound train two hours later.
The latest railroading trend is bedroom sleeping cars on a New York to Chicago flyer. Rooms run along one side to the car middle with a cross hallway and bedrooms on the opposite side. Beds are larger with upper and lower berths and a wash stand with running water. Passengers traveling as couples or friends can expect better rest than in older sleepers. West Virginia doctors seek a law to pay experts $15 a day for testimony, though such testimony is often deemed unhelpful.
The Baltimore Sun rebukes Mr Gorman’s self vindication as a severe indictment of his record. It argues he is a friend of capitalistic combinations and should be a Republican presidential timber. It says reversal of public judgment is impossible and resurrection unlikely.
A county woman, after seven years of illness with severe coughing and insomnia, found relief after using Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. One bottle reportedly cured her and allowed a full night’s sleep. The ad claims Mrs. Luther Lutz as the patient and promotes a free trial through W. C. Hamrick & Co. of Shelby, NC, and Boaknalls & Sons.
A large rock shattered a first class window on a westbound Southern train near Richmond and Danville yesterday afternoon. Glass scattered over a woman and her two children seated beside the window. no suspect seen. Rock throwing is a serious offense under state law and could lead to penitentiary for offenders. Raleigh Visitor notes 175 students at A and M College down from 200 last fall due to a rule requiring passing grades.
Ayer's Pills are advertised as aiding digestion and overall health, claiming better appetite and vitality when taken as directed. The note emphasizes a connection between digestive ease and general well being.
A claimed day long remedy called Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and Neural diseases promises radical results in 1 to 3 days. It claims to remove the cause and immediately disappear with the first dose greatly benefiting. Sold by Heartt & Farthing, Druggist, Durham, at 75 cents.
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