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Local notices and town chatter mid spring 1881
Town items report visits by Mr. Nosal and Dr. Carr, church matters, lectures, school events at Chapel Hill and Durham, and local business ads. Mentions of weather, fox hunt, and upcoming meetings. Includes oblique references to births, deaths, and community notices with multiple residents and firms named.
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The
Press Association
Elizabeth City
A. G. Carr
N. Y
Mariah Parham
Raleigh
Frank Reams
John L. Markham
J. N. Gammon
W.T. Blackwell & Co
Carolina
D.L. I
Chapel Hill
A. Goldstein
W. H. Hopkins
James Patterson
Scotland
Presbyterian Church
W. D. Lunsford
Mangum Township
A.C. Hayes
Oak Grove Township
Washington
National Tobacco Association
Carr
Col. Webb
Lena Beckwith
Smithfield
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
James Dike
Dean
Durham Male
W. E. Bercham
Bercham
Sheriff Blackwell
A. H. Stokes
J. W. Goodson
Flat River
Reynard
Chas, D. Melver
Durham High School
Collier Cobb
N. B. Cobb
Cobb
Ninteen
North Carolina