Legislature and Sheriff Candidates Listed
Hackney editor notes subscription prices and lists William Nichols as a legislator candidate and F. D. Markham as sheriff candidate.
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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1888
Page
4
Hackney editor notes subscription prices and lists William Nichols as a legislator candidate and F. D. Markham as sheriff candidate.
The North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station announces Bulletin No 58. It details field experiments across nineteen counties, plots, fertilizer mixes, costs, and analyses. It includes a meteorological summary, drinking water analyses, new cattle and dairy work, and plans for botanical and entomological studies funded by Hatch funds.
Mrs. Arp recalls Civil War refugees fleeing Yankees with six children. She describes hunger, scarce provisions, worn clothes, patched garments, and improvised shoes. Doctors were away with the army while pestilence loomed, and fear trailed soldiers who pursued families.
The De Dies minstrels drew strong praise for Leech Bros Congo wizards and lively indulgent acts. Charley Goodyear impressed as top comedian with promising talent, while Pollard and Harry Green delivered superb singing and popular numbers. Dillions and Leech brothers impressed with dance, afterpiece solid, proprietors confident of strong road reception. The Chicago Tribune rebuttal disputed Cobden Club funding claims as falsehoods.
A Harper’s illustration titled Doctoring Old Time depicts an aged clock repairer blowing dust from a relic clock. Warner’s Safe Care firm, led by H. A. Warner of Rochester, N Y, plans Warner's Log Cabin remedies including sereaparilia, Log Cabin hops and bachae, cough and consumption remedy, log cabin extract, log cabin rose cream, log cabin astor, and log cabin liver pill. Public skepticism of modern doctors grows as these old fashioned cures gain attention. Also notes on London Jubilee payment, English public opinion, Sembrich’s studies, Ada Rehan portrait, Lepel rifle, and German munitions tests.
The piece praises Seas of Oxiont and Dunnam Day Reconpen for improved, bold appearance and steady progress. It calls the publication credible and interesting, noting it as a leading evening daily in North Carolina with strong reader appeal and public trust.
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