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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1890
Page
5
Durham hosts 15th annual North Carolina Press Association meeting with speeches by Robt Haydn and J S Carr. Visitors tour Duke and Durham Bull factories, observe tobacco output, and note Durham’s growth from a railway stop to a thriving center with 23 factories and a $4 million payroll.
Most editors left Saturday noon for Morehead City to spend several days as guests of the Atlantic hotel. A large sale of town lots is set for August 20 at Roxboro, offering potential profits from desirable building property. Special trains at reduced rates will run from Durham.
Public auction in Asheville on August 6 and 7 offers 100000 dollars worth of town lots. Advertisements by Messrs C E Graham highlight the sale as a chance to invest in the growing city nicknamed the Land of the Sky. Tax records urge buyers to attend for real estate bargains.
Lively week as Durham lays corner stones for two major structures. A Brown Durham stone marks the 54 by 200 foot five story storage house built by W Duke Sons & Co. A second stone for the Durham Commonwealth Club cotton factory is set near the R and D depot. Associate Justice Jasreek delivered a speech amid ceremonies. Trinity College corner stone could not be laid simultaneously.
Gratifying to all the high acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid fruit remedy Syray of Figs as an excellent laxative shows the value of its qualities and the success of the California Fig Syrup Company.
Thousands have been relieved of indigestion and loss of appetite by a single bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. The medicine gives tone and strength to assimilative organs and has made innumerable cures of chronic dyspepsia. Price 1 dollar. Worth 5 dollars a bottle.
The Richmond & Danville Railroad will sell round trip tickets to the North Carolina State Tobacco Association annual meeting in Morehead City. Tickets on sale August 2 to 4, good for return through August 12, 1890. Charlotte eight dollars and five cents, Salisbury seven dollars and fifteen cents, Greensboro six dollars thirty five cents, Winston Salem six ninety, Durham five dollars, Oxford five ninety, Henderson six twenty, Raleigh four forty, Selma three twenty five. Rates from intermediate points apply in same proportion.
G. J. Spencer former St. Joseph Evening News proprietor states he has greatly benefited from Microbe Killer and continues its use. Sold by R. Blackwany & IN.
An 1889 advertisement touts Sucklen’s Arniva Salve as a universal remedy for cuts sores rashes and skin ailments with a promise of satisfaction or money back. It lists 25 cent price and references Forstleby Blackwall Co Durham, and a testimonial of dyspepsia relief using Microbe Killer from Kansas.
An old advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a universal laxative to cleanse the system and treat headaches fevers and constipation with claims of universal usefulness. It notes California Fig Syrup Company San Francisco as manufacturer and Blackwall and Son as local sellers. Also a horse remedy English Spavin Lidiment promises removal of lumps blemishes and other horse ailments with savings and a local druggist in Durham selling it.
The Haywood resort at White Sulphur Springs touts a strong season led by A J Batjes as manager. Visitors are promised mountain air bracing swims and electric baths at rates attractive to Eastern guests.
An advertisement promotes Dixie Horse Powders as a full supply source for making fine slick horses.
The ad argues lacking appetite signals poor health and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy. It claims the medicine aids digestion, stimulates hunger, and renews blood vitality so meals effectively nourish the body.
Having qualified as Executors of W A Barbee of Durham County North Carolina this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 1st day of July 1891 or the notice will be pled in that of their All persons indebted to said will please make immediate payment Jno W M G E W A Barna Executors July 14 1890
Chester Virginia announces the Chester Female Institute begins its session September 10 1890. Located near two cities on the Atlantic Coast Line at a high point, the school offers educa tional advantages and physical culture with a capable faculty at reasonable rates. Circulars available via 112 Bute Street or Miss Nellie Dickinson Chester VA.
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