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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1883
Page
3
Local Matters advertises fire insurance through Hackney and Mackay offering policies from numerous fine companies. It promises satisfaction and notes the agency is located opposite Eugene Morehead's Bank in Nice over Eugene Morehead's Bank.
A $500 reward is offered to recover small unpaid subscription amounts. The plea asks subscribers to settle debts, noting every small sum adds up to a significant amount for the newspaper. The Durham Recorder aims to be an ornament to the region and states it will not run the paper for free.
A survey of notices from Durham and Raleigh includes insurance ads for Hackney and Mackay, town improvements on Clay Street, and local travel and education items. Mentions Jay Gould visiting, church events, school openings, harvests, and civic concerns about sanitation and labor demand in Durham.
The Bank of Durham announces a new banking house in Durham with Wylie as cashier and Blackwell as proprietor. It offers loans, discounts, exchanges, and stock and bond dealings as part of a growing local economy. Also noted are merchants promoting brooms, prints, whiskeys, tobaccos, and farm implements amid local industry and a bereavement notice for Mrs. Josephine Angier.
An ad dense page promotes cheap spring fabrics from lawn to dress goods, with claims of new arrivals and low prices. It includes tonic style cures for children and men with a Voltaic belt trial offer, urging readers to visit the shop now as time is short.
The Alife Insurance Company of Virginia aids Northerners with home investments and loans in Durham N C totaling over five thousand dollars. It seeks good agents in Orange Durham Franklin and Granville counties and cites J J Mackay Durham as district agent. Market notes list various tobacco grades with prices and state market activity and expected demand for sixty days.
Corrected weekly list from Angier and Farthing Bacon c r sides. Prices shown for N C bacon hams salt lime corn fodder wheats oats lard flour syrup and various produce including sweet potatoes trish potatoes dried apples peaches and cotton seed with per unit figures and ranges.
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