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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1889
Page
5
Local items list notices on land sales and estates, church meetings, and fires. The column notes social events including weddings and travels, updates on local merchants, a marriage in Oxford Ledger, political commentary, and upcoming centennial plans in Fayetteville with Durham figures mentioned.
Durham mourns Thos D Jones a prominent wrapper buyer and liberal benefactor who aided farmers and the poor. He died leaving a wife and two children. The town decorates for the Andress New Colonial Show, coming Tuesday November 12 with two performances at 2 and 8, tickets 25 and 60 cents.
An old advertisement fragment touts Bucklen Arnica Salve as a universal cure for cuts bruises sores ulcers and more with a 25 cent price at R Blackwall Co Durham and promotes California Fig Syrup as an effective laxative. It also lists vendors I Rogers dealer in hackney buggies and phaetons and references U S Columbus and single center spring vehicles with October pricing.
F. D. Markham sheriff will sell for cash at the Durham court house door on Monday December 2, 1889, two land lots in Hayti formerly owned by J W Whitted to satisfy attach ment judgments in favor of G C Farthing and Markham and Foster Trustees. Warrant of attachment levied on the property. Lot sizes are 14 acres and 4 acres more or less.
An advertisement touts Winslow's Soothing Syrup as for children teething. It claims the syrup soothes the child softens the gums allays pain cures wind colic and treats diarrhoea. Price listed as twenty five cents per bottle.
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