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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1887
Page
3
The Enterprise lists metropolist preaching schedules for multiple churches Rev Hoyle Rev Dalton Rev Thompson and Rev Reaney with times and Sunday School hours. It notes local events weather mild business boom and social notices including marriages and holidays.
Local buyers praise Hoffman and Farlow for top quality beef and leading tobacco sales at Anchor Warehouse. Farmers report strong prices for tobacco, especially brights, with buyers away for holidays causing brief warehouse closures. Visitors from Boston and Farmington share town impressions as High Point touts a booming economy.
Correspondence notes High Point swiftly becoming a top tobacco market with strong brights demand. Central NC railroad access, two large warehouses, resident manufacturers, and favorable health and educational amenities boost growth and prices. Anchor Warehouse reports prices beyond sellers’ expectations and strong farmer support.
The snippet presents a promotional verse for the Anchor Warehouse in High Point detailing sales, layout, and prices, followed by local notices about Farlow and Hoffman stores and personnel changes. It also notes the death of Dr. John G. Christain and a Parkersburg burglary incident involving Miss Mullen.
Store invites customers to view a stock of Christmas cards and wear and wear cards and a selection of poems and books suitable for gifts. Also offers school and blank books stationery musical instruments periodicals at reasonable prices. Name and place remembered.
Belonging to R. A. Wheeler the business will continue at the same stand. Management pledges to maintain high standards and honest dealings to keep the business up to its attained level.
Prices listed for December deliveries include H B F Witts W T Hanes and Mildred Gambler with per cwt values and averages. Governor Charles R Bodwell of Maine dies in Augusta executive mansion after a boiler explosion at Tilton Georgia claims five lives.
Corrected weekly by the Anchor Warehouse. All grades coming in freely this week. Prices for brights continue to increase with ranges for Lvucs Common and Medium at 309 to 650, and other categories listed with varying quantities and prices.
H Alexander of Hiau Point North Carolina promotes the Spangled Banner Store with a sprawling 24 by 120 foot General line of dry goods, notions, hats, groceries, guns, ammunition and spangles. The piece uses antique imagery to extol new bargains for all ages and ages of adornment.
An advertisement promotes North Carolina Lime Phosphate as a dry 200 pound bag product containing 10-16 pounds Phosphoric Acid 23-35 pounds Bone Phosphate 100-120 pounds Lime 1-4 pounds Potash 4 pounds Soda Sulphuric Acid Chlorine tiny amounts 12 pounds Alumina Iron oxide Silica. It claims to contain little water and avoid excess sulfuric acid, giving application rates for cotton corn wheat oats rye grasses and fertilizer with potassium sources.
On clay soils use lime phosphate with muriate potash and salt for wheat. On thin land add cotton seed meal and ammoniates. For rye use similar mixes with kainit instead of salt. Oats respond to lime phosphate and kainit. 600 to 1,000 pounds per acre for grasses plus kainit on sandy land.
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