19 Oct 1892
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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1892
Page
1
A long, moralistic prose piece cautions young women to avoid wild behavior and smoking, urging virtue, self control, and discretion to protect reputation. It intertwines social advice with scattered odds and ends on politics, industry, and local anecdotes from the era.
Wayne McVeagh argues pension abuses mirror tax-funded bounties for manufacturers. He laments indiscriminate grants as a burden on the treasury and calls for distinguishing loyal service from peaceful disease claims. The article also notes birds seek straw and hay trusses on lamp posts in snowy Sweden and Norway.
A reflective column laments hard times despite plenty, noting high federal taxes and the burden on ordinary people. It compares tax burdens to enormous wagonloads of silver and gold, criticizes the McKinley tariff, and includes scattered anecdotes about absurd misprints and odd notices.
Col Andrews on Jail street reports wood blocks missing from his lumber pile for nights. He cannot identify who took them and decides to investigate by boring holes in a few blocks to locate the culprit.
State news notes social and political bustle in North Carolina cities. Greensboro faces a tramp issue, Rutherfordton rises in prominence, and the Greensboro North State newspaper is sold on the 10th to satisfy mortgage, bought by J B Wray of Reidsville. Marriage notices include Rev F T Mann of the North Carolina Conference and Miss Emma at Capt I W Garret’s King’s Mountain home. Hickory Bulletin reports Robert Bowman of Alexander and Mrs Tina Teague unite in marriage at Hickory. A crash at the Morgan-ton fair involved two horses colliding.
The piece argues free trade prices England at $1.00 and the US at 0.70, asking what value protective tariffs have for American farmers. It questions how protection can help when domestic wheat costs and exports depend on external prices, challenging the logic of tariffs as a shield for farmers.
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