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High Point Enterprise

Location

High Point, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Dec 23, 1887

Page

2

Editors Praise Alden's Great Popular Cyclopedia

A public notice touts Alden's Manifest Cyclopedia as a major new reference work. It highlights comprehensive language and universal knowledge in thirty large volumes, praising its low cost and utility, with endorsements from Prof. Day and publisher details for orders and specimens.

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Impatient office seekers and secret sessions feature

A Georgia congressman's early encounters with persistent job seekers show the grafty zeal of Washington newcomers. Senator Platts push to end secret sessions meets mixed reception as reform chatter grows. North Carolina wagoners report a new cave‑in near the Smokies, while incidents in Waynesville and a Nova Scotia raft alert naval caution. State finances remain sound with timely bond purchases. church postings in Forest City and a Goldsboro dog‑calf incident add local color.

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Sampson county court curbs school taxes and pupil totals

Supreme Court ruling limits school special taxes to sixty six percent on property and two dollars per poll. Earlier the decision affects twenty counties that had levied such taxes. The article lists public school enrollments, white and colored, and notes local crime and sensational incidents from Asheville and nearby towns.

Supreme Court Sampson County

Confessed Wife Murderer Faces Hanging in January

Charlie F. Tones admits to forcing his wife to flee to her father’s home, then strangling her in a boat on the Neuse River and tossing her body into the water. He is sentenced to be hanged January 17.

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