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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1888
Page
3
The Enterprise reports Christmas preparations with warehouses closing for sale hours and high prices for bright tobacco. Notices include administrator appointment for David Jordan, bank hours, public tree events at Methodist church, a new Lexington cotton factory, and various local movements.
The Raleigh area reels as L Bingham disappears with Lizzie Turlington from the Deaf Dumb and Blind institute amid rumors of elopement and murder. Police trace their movements toward Durham Morrisville and possibly Iowa while telegrams go out to arrest Bingham and locate the missing woman.
Local notices report a High Point company meeting on December 27 1886 with Jarrells Hall offered for free use. Railroad progress praised in Pittsboro and a Rutherford Railway bond signing noted. Federal pardons for Georgia suspects and a harsh critique of North Carolina jails follow in Washington and Wilson Advance.
Warns against impostors claiming similar remedies for coughs colds and consumption. Encourages insisting on Dr King's New Discovery, noting trial bottles are free at Smith's Drag Store and promising relief for throat, lung, and chest issues.
Mr D I Wilcoxon of Horse Cave Kentucky reports long illness with phthisis and diabetes. After six bottles of Electric Bitters he is cured and gained eighteen pounds. He credits relief from pain and danger of death. Bottles sold for fifty cents each by Smith & Co.
The notice lists numerous candy varieties including No 1 Chocolate Creams Finest Caramels Cream Bon-bons Jelly Ginger Mint Lozengers Marsh Mallow Drops Finest Rock Candy Cream Figs and Dates Brandy Smash Strawberries Lemon Coconut Cream Bon-bons Saratoga Creams Fruit Drops Jelly Slices and many other shapes 1 000 pounds Plain Candy and assorted fruit offerings include Oranges Fine Northern Apples Lemons Best Bananas Catawba Grapes.
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