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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1896
Page
2
The Durham Recorder lists its Thursday publication cadence with subscription prices of one year at 800 and six months at 400. Advertising rates are available on request. The notice is dated March 26, 1896, Durham NC.
Notice to subscribers states The Recorder moved back to Durham and asks debt payment at the office. It recalls E C Hackney Pueblo Colorado and notes various local and state topics including the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in 1897 and Asheville as the next North Carolina teachers assembly site with hotel rates.
The article argues manufacturing drives state politics and favors protective tariff moves. It cites Dr. Kingsbury and Judge Fulmore predicting high profits for NC mills, growth across towns, and job creation for rural white women. It also recalls 1796 Raleigh printing prices and public printing payments, showing past contrasts with modern times.
H T Taubeneck, chairman of the Peoples Party National Executive committee, returns from Hutchinson Kansas and says the party will carry most southern and western states next fall including Nebraska and the Dakotas. He expects Missouri to fall, Texas to sweep, and every congressional district there except three, with broad gains south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers unless West Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee stay under Republican pressure. He cites potential unity with silver advocates as aiding the push.
A correspondent defends the South as law abiding and constitution loving while condemning perceived government overreach. The letter vows chivalric action to right wrongs and invites merchants to collaborate, mentioning Herndon & Bowl, Sneed & Thomas, and Buist's seeds as reliable suppliers.
Notice announcing Herman & Seymour offering home work at weekly wages of 10 to 18 dollars with stamping for particulars. Also a legal notice of administratrix for estate, dated February 16, 18g6, regarding Li qualified as of the estate and will amended of a person named Tilley.
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