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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1900
Page
2
The notice explains recipients may take the paper from the post office without obligation if sent by a friend. It recounts diverse items from state and national politics including primary results in Kentucky and Virginia, a coal mine explosion report, and remarks on race, parties, and religion with references to Lt Governor Turner and Samuel Rogers.
An editorial urges formation of an Improvement Society of local men and women to remove discomforts and drive city progress. It suggests goals such as straightening Main Street, building a public building, establishing transit, creating a park, planting shade trees, and enforcing the anti-expectorational ordinance to advance Durham’s welfare.
An old advertisement touts a 100 dollar reward for proof that Catarrh Cure offers a constitutional remedy. The copy emphasizes the cure as a sole positive treatment, praised for boosting patient strength and vitality, with CHENRY & CO claiming Toledo, Ohio as their base.
The listing includes many stores and named individuals in Durham areas and Camden, plus a reader anecdote about circulars cluttering yards. A separate New Jersey correspondent notes advertising as a modern city nuisance and a moral about advertising in The Recorder. Also reported is a Methodist Episcopal Church bishops consecration in Chicago and a tragedy at Old Point Comfort involving a large wave and a body.
A Vance county populist living on Linbank road, father of four or five daughters, claims if he meets difficulty in assimilating the Negro he will lubricate him with lard and swallow him. He warns the Negro will go down easy for a while, but retribution is coming.
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