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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1892
Page
3
Durham Recorder reports rapid growth in the city with notes on weather, crops, and local life. It highlights a proposed ladies bicycle club, a large funeral procession for Mrs. H. T. Darnall, and favors Civics with ads, meetings, and fireproof building provisions. It cites Odd Fellows activity in Rhode Island and promotes Electric Bitters for health concerns.
Memorial Day in Richmond honored fallen soldiers with Virginia women in the crowd. James C. Haywood read his poem Tired Soldier Rest praising the heroes and the care given to graves at Askwood Cemetery. The piece notes substantial Odd Fellows and Rebekah membership figures.
Mrs. C. M. V. Follett advertises stock from northern cities with hats bonnets and quick-order specialty. Mail orders filled. visit Main Street store to inspect offerings. Also promotes Syrup of Fig for travel health benefits and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for skin conditions, with assorted inexpensive applications and general efficacy claims.
Mrs Dr Hanks and children from Pittsboro arrived for a visit with Mrs KE Hackney. The piece also describes how two Philadelphia factories use 100 horse hides daily to manufacture baseball covers and offers home cleaning advice stressing practical, efficient routines to preserve energy for women.
The article notes the city will pipe water from the falls while the Republican convention meets. It cites a lunatic asylum superintendent who prescribes baseball as a cure for madness, questioning if the remedy worsens the disease.
The article notes the absence of physicians leads to careful, exacting care. It argues treatments are adjusted as needed since no pecuniary interest influences prescriptions. It states that without a doctor connected to the establishment, the multiplicity of prescriptions cannot be charged to any physician.
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