Local Observations and Rural Commerce Notes
June notes show A. Max’s fresh goods A. J. Broom leads in his line T. J. Lambe’s for fine clothing Billis Stone & Co lead Durham milliners offer low prices and pretty goods. Shad supply declines. reform urged via laws and spawn distribution. Moody revival history and local moves. Dr M H P Clark relocates office. murder near Fort Mitchell Va. Pollard case details. new birth at Whitaker home.
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A. Max
A. J. Broom
T. J. Lambe
North Carolina
Raleigh
Cape Fear
Haywood
New England
Hudson River
Charles R. Cross
Mack Parrish
Fort Mitchell
Pollard
Solomon Marable
Five Forks
Marable
Chase City
The Labor Reward and Crime Policy Debate
A critique argues labor and wealth as incentives to virtue while crime prompts harsher penalties. It warns that idle labor leads to crime and urges strict enforcement, quicker punishment, and broader use of the death penalty to deter offenses and protect society as penitentiary growth alarms rise.
Virginia College Advertises Attractive South Campus
Sept. 12, 1895 advertisement touts Virginia College Roanoke campus ten acres with grand mountain scenery. Describes modern buildings, healthful location, European and American instructors, full course, strong art and music programs, and students from twenty states. Catalogues to President A Harris D D. Jun 12. Roanoke Va Forty Barrels Day.
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A. Harris
Roanoke
Traveling sales pitch for Johnson's Oriental Soap
A travel notice promotes Johnson's Oriental Soap with a claim that diseases arise from using Oriental soap. The ad states it is sold by W. M. Yearby.
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W. M. Yearby
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Ino
Wilkerson
Urham Special Manufacturing Co
Komen Cafuana Superior Court
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Durham, N. C
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