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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1889
Page
2
A broad montage covers postal telegraph bills, moonshine raids near Toccoa, a Georgia youth aiding a raid, a Wake Forest address rumor, and accounts of public spending in the West. It notes Mexican pension law, weather prediction accuracy, rising revenue bills, Vermont railroad disaster, Montana exports, and regional growth including banks and schools.
In Raleigh on Feb 7 9 bills were introduced in the Senate including incorporation for the Wilmington and Sea Coast Railroad and the Chowan and Southern Railroad. in the House measures covered normal schools liquor control and county inspectors. Feb 8 9 bills advanced including real estate partition protection fire safety tax relief for mills and road bonds. several railroads and municipal actions debated. Feb 9 Senate proposed expands justice jurisdiction infants estates and criminal statistics while bills to incorporate Piedmont Bank Morganton Male Academy and Piedmont Land Co moved forward.
Reports from the era cover bills to charter the Wilmington and East Carolina road, rail commission debates, and a plan to cease complimentary passes by Union Pacific. Also noted are a Sunbury robbery, a Massachusetts park fatality, a Charleston doctor’s death, a Wyoming suffrage ruling, a derailment near Tryon, and a mob killing of two detectives transporting a prisoner.
A health advertisement extols Green's August Flour as a cure for dyspepsia liver complaints and related ailments. It claims three doses prove its effect with sample bottles selling for 10 cents, urging readers to try it to prevent sickness and restore vigor.
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