Scammer Minister Feigned Clergy in Greensboro Shoe Plot
Messrs Thacker and Brockman, Greensboro merchants, received a forged order from Rev John Thomson Hargrave of Verdon Virginia for shoes and under wear. References, including bishops and bankers, were faked to seem legitimate. Postmaster in Verdon and a Virginia paper report Hargrave as a known scammer who had fled with goods and a forged check. Local election talk shows two mayoral candidates and no alderman candidates yet, with primary rules pending.
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Greensboro
Verdon
Hanover County
Taylorsville
Aliver
North Carolina
Francis Joyner
Littleton
Hargrave
Pennsylvania
United States
Belove
Virginia
Rufus K. Parks
Alleghany County
Boughton
S. A. C. Son
Alleghany Star
Ellen Garson
J. Murphy
L. J. Brandt
Democratic Executive Committee
E. ‘A. Brown
John L. King
W. M. Barbee
Lee H. Battle
IV. Taylor
C. BL Vanstory
Samuel Mitchell
Merriman
Samuel A. Boyd
Wharton
William Loze
Devoe Paint Advice Letter to Mr. Abernett Hickers
A letter urges prudent paint choices emphasizing cost per gallon and long wear. It extols Devoe paint as the best value, arguing durable coating saves money over multiple coats and less wasted material. The writer stresses property care and practical home upkeep.
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Abernett Hickers
N.C
United States
Devoe
Devo & CO P
Ingold
Spring Fashion Fashions Fine Fabrics For Spring
The season introduces refined fabrics across cottons linens silks and worsteds with light colors and soft textures. Stripes and checks lead the trend with plain foils like brown gray and broadcloth alongside new silks and mohairs. Lush dress materials include lawns lisle operable details and satinlike linings for coats and daywear.
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Panama
Tennessee builders' exchanges form state association aim
Tennessee men including Chatanooga Nashville Memphis and Jackson builders' exchanges meet to organize a state association modeled on Texas groups. If formed it will affiliate with the National Association of Builders' Exchanges. A separate tale tells of Erringe driven to collect money, attacked by wolves, and frozen in a tree, later rescued and thawed at a hospital. the missing funds are presumed eaten by wolves.
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Tennessee
Association of Builders’ Exchanges
Texas
Builders’ Exchange
Chatanooga
Nashville
Memphis
Jackson
National Association of Builders’ Exchanges
Yaleville
Putnie Township
Bremsinen Place
Yhose
Valevillely
Drave
Bremsine Place
St. Louis’ Republic
Skyscraper dreams and city shadows in a moral riddle
A Chicago Tribune excerpt imagines a towering edifice as life’s stage within four walls, reflecting poverty and wealth, charity and greed, while a public health warning urges strong cold care. It blends urban myth with a real warning about neglectful colds and the value of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
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Vinci
Chicago Tribune
Shuford Drug Co
Weaving Epitaphs and Gentle Satire From An Old Churchyard
Fragmented snippets present epitaphs and rhymes from Peters Isle and Woolwich churchyards. A cryptic gravestone praises a Herculean figure and hints at death, debt, and fate. A faded sermon line and a humorous quip about a wife’s dream conclude the collage of antique verse and odd notices.
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Peters Isle
Thanet
Santry Emurenvard
Martin Eldebrod
Abavonshire
Eoltagh
Kbose
Allon
Woolwich
Reverend Jam Graham Celebrates 25th Ordination Anniversary
The Rev. Jam Graham pastor of St Pat Hicke's Church marks twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination. Born in Ireland in 1858 he studied at St Sulpice in Montreal and the American College in Rome where he was ordained March 25, 1883.
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Jam Graham
St. Pat. Hicke's
Father Graham
Ireland
St. Sulpice Seminary
Montreal
American College
Rome
Durham to Build $190000 Main Street Church
Durham observers report a new Main Street Mission Church rising on West Chapel Hill Street to be the finest in the state and cost 190000 dollars. Northern architects designed it with funds from B N Duke who contributed 100000 dollars and the balance to be subscribed by members. The old church will serve as a Washington Duke memorial alongside continued worship.
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Durham
N. C
Washington Duke
Chapel Hill
B. N. Duke
Brandreth’s Pills marketed as blood purifier and laxative
Vintage ad claims Brandreth’s Pills cleanse morbid humors by stimulating bowels kidneys and skin, acting as a blood purifier and laxative. Each pill allegedly contains extract of a plant plus other botanicals. Also notes the pills’ century‑long sale and availability in drugstores. Renews with unrelated obituary lines for Prof. Von Bergmann.
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Brandreth
Evry Drug and Medicine Store
Louisiana waterway tour planned by House committee crew
Members of the House committee on riv land harbors will inspect Louisiana waterways this week. The party will visit the Mississippi river locks at Lavon La Fourche and Bacu Piacquemie, sail the Atchafalaya to the gulf, travel to Shreveport then down the Red river to New Orleans, and tour salt mines vitelds rice and sugar plantations in Southwestern Louisiana.
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Lousiana
New Orleans
House Committee On Riv Land
Mississippi
Lavon la Fourche
Bacu Piacquemie
Rei River
Atchafalaya
Gulf
Tas
Shreveport
Red River
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Sinee
Europe
Ais
Don Mantel
Bell
Portugal
Pils
Jamestown
New York
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City of
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Savannah
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M. Word
Martin & Co
Tess
Monto
Dewites
C. M. Shufard
Martin
Custom
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Scott
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Germany
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W. L. Abernethy
Hickory
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Menzies’ Drug Store
Hickey, N. C
DR. WE
Manville
McComb's
Ilekory, N.C
W. B. Ramsay
Postottee
Carolina & Northwestern Ry. Co
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Yorkville
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