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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1888
Page
5
Local notices recap price cuts for subscriptions and ads, community events, politics, and a railroad stockholders meeting. Topics include paper pricing offers, a Children Day festival, a Cumberland political rally, paving on Chapel Hill Street, a tobacco and crop outlook, and closing out summer clothing sales at Summers & Co.
The Durham Graded and High Schools re elected Prof FE Kennedy as superintendent for the seventh time in a unanimous vote. Citizens recall his early arrival from Goldsboro and praise his long service guiding more than 2000 students with devotion and efficiency.
Worth Knowing. Mr W H Morgas of Lake City Florida was seized by a severe cold with a distressing cough and early consumption. After trying many claimed cures he worsened, grew thin and struggled to breathe. He used Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption, found immediate relief, and after about six bottles regained health with no relapse. Guaranteed to do what is claimed. Trial bottle free at R Blackwell & Son Drugstore. Durham Exposition notes follow with committee actions and schedules. Barbecue and races planned. Ways and Means to raise funds $6000 at once. Apple peels upset stomachs, but Dr Biggers Huckberry Cordial helps once digestion is unsettled.
The liver and kidneys remedy by Pemberton Medicine Co promises to regulate the bowels purify the blood and heal consumption biliousness dyspepsia fever chills bad breath sour stomach and back or limb pain. It also claims to aid female irregularities and the change of life with no diet restrictions. Sold by druggists at 50 cents per bottle. Atlanta Ga.
Rose E Cleveland emerges as a top author with her book So cial and Moral Culture drawing strong reviews and the largest single subscription sales aside from Grant's Memoirs. The piece notes widespread favorable press coverage and unprecedented demand for this transcription work.
The quotation shows smokers as a notable indicator in the market for the Dur area, reflecting consumer sentiment and demand patterns during the period.
Feeling low and unsettled, you seek a lasting tonic not built on cheap whiskey. Electric Bitters purify the blood, renew liver and kidney action, restore vitality and health, available at R Blacknail & Son's drug store for 50 cents a bottle.
The notice corrects a previous misnaming of M. Nelson P. Hall of Orange County as having committed suicide by hanging. The deceased is Lamberth W. Hall age 64. He suffered mental aberration and ill health for about nineteen months but had no known financial troubles and was described as highly esteemed and Christian.
A Philadelphia Times quip promotes a handkerchief campaign over a bloody shirt campaign. A New England parasol maker unveils the Bandanna Nonpareil design to be worn at the seashore. Alora, Is, plans a hay palace for the Kossuth county fair with hay walls and a thatched roof. London is noted as having large Catholic and Jewish populations.
Letters from Dr Styles of Atlanta and a tester in Chattanooga report Coca Wine restoring health for dyspepsia hysteria constipation and insomnia. Testimonials claim relief for neuralgia and mental strain with improved alertness. Advertisement urges readers to request details and buy from Pennington Medicine Co Atlanta.
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