16 Sep 1885
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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1885
Page
1
A lengthy discussion on the grocer’s hardships focuses on slow sales and high rents, but centers on unsatisfactory customers who habitually fail to pay on credit. It describes how bad debts burden merchants, the role of cash sales, and collective measures by local traders to curb credit in the face of competition.
A fragment describes a narrow escape and a failed attempt to borrow ten dollars. Posonby questions a lending choice and mentions someone named Taide receiving the ten. The dialogue is terse and unfinished indicating a humorous or dramatic vignette.
Losciusco Murphy has passed his examination and joined the Austin bar. His notable quality is extracting the truth from witnesses. A sample of his questioning method is shown, testing the man’s marital status and the path to bachelorhood.
In a jagged, dialect heavy excerpt a speaker mocks a local figure and notes tensions over a woman in Piqua who must choose between leaving the church or ending a pregnancy, with references to Polly and a second-hand joke.
A Tennessee youth wrote a heartfelt plea to his beloved to elope but an old man guarded her location. She nonetheless sent a muskmelon to convey her message and reveal the situation in plain terms.
A damaged OCR fragment shows a physician offering professional consolation and a patient response about feeling unwell. The snippet hints at a formal emotional exchange within a medical setting, lacking clear names, dates, or locations.
An advertisement touts a book on curing tobacco for farmers with sandy and Beaver Dam lands. It claims the guide enables any farmer to cure tobacco as well as skilled curers, reducing cost and teaching timing, leaf quality, and waxy finish. Local names, endorsements, and dates from Durham and Apex readers appear.
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