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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1888
Page
3
The Field Trials Club plans a mid November meeting in High Point. News covers church changes, a conviction and pending appeal, local business ads, weather events including a December snowstorm, factory and tobacco trade, and upcoming mail train schedule changes.
Mr Burl Burton, a respected resident near High Point, dies of heart disease on the 13th. Eastern Field Trials Club members mostly return home as bad weather ends their stay and prizes are divided. The article also reports Methodist Conference in Reidsville, Trinity College appointments, weather predictions, road macadamization plans, a Bertie county case of a deafness prayer, jail escape in Trenton, a Richmond murder confession letter, Christmas cards at Butterfield’s, and a dissolving partnership notice dated December 8, 1886.
Raleigh Concord Richmond Dispatch notes North Carolina’s growing population per census and highlights Ris Reed near Edenton where his wife has given birth to triple yet again. The couple now has twenty nine children after five sets of twins and four single births. The husband was a triplet and the wife a twin.
A. E. Smith & Co's Drug Store offers a limited time free trial bottle of Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds to prove its curative powers. Large bottles are priced at $1. The notice also reports a Pitt county affray where Thomas Smith was shot by John Dennis and Dennis was nearly killed by Smith's friends. recovery seems unlikely.
Mrs Phoebe Chesley of Peterson Clay County Iowa says electric bitters renewed her youth, removed pain, and let her do her own housework at 73. She praises the remedy as a cure for kidney trouble and lameness, selling bottles at 50 cents through A B Smith & Co Drug Store.
A broad list of confections, fruits, pickles, nuts, coffees, dried fruits, canned goods, and household staples is advertised. The catalog mentions 1 600 pounds of plain candy and a wide range of items from soaps to pasta and tea, highlighting Evergreens and assorted brands. The notice presents a dense inventory style typical of retail circulars.
A collection of testimonials from Greensboro North Carolina and other locations in 1885 86 praising Tar Heel Liniment for rheumatism stomach pains colic nasal congestion burns oak poison neuralgia toothache and catarrh with claims of rapid relief and long term benefit from multiple subscribers including E E May Cons E Lewise J W Puca H H Cartiano Jas R Deoxr Lettie Jones Harmon Unbank J A Pritenert K C Frazier and others.
The Tar Heel Liniment is described as exceeding sales expectations and praised by users as a universal pain killer. It is said to help with cuts sprains and colic in children and to be a practical household remedy for emergencies across North Carolina.
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